The mixture is placed in a coffin-shaped mould and put in a “climate room” to grow for seven days.<\/p>\n
They’re suitable for traditional burials, natural burials and cremation.<\/p>\n
While they’re now available in New Zealand, they’re currently only grown in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
Hendrikx hopes to gain enough traction to grow them here and cut down on emissions from shipping.<\/p>\n
“As a sustainable entrepreneur [it] is of course a big challenge because you have these ambitions and yet there’s… also… the financial reality.”<\/p>\n
Everywhere they ship to, they try and offset their carbon, he said. In New Zealand they are investing in wind.<\/p>\n
Hendrikx said the biggest challenge when growing the mushrooms themselves is to ensure they remain only one species.<\/p>\n
When the project first launched overseas he was surprised to see support from as far away as Australia and New Zealand, he said.<\/p>\n
Australia had its first burial with a mushroom-grown coffin last week and three families showed interest here on launch day.<\/p>\n
“I think it makes sense because you guys have a very beautiful relationship with nature.”<\/p>\n
While the price was dependent on each funeral direction, Hendrikx said they would be sold at a similar price to a traditional coffin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mixture is placed in a coffin-shaped mould and put in a “climate room” to grow for seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-593086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}