VAUSE: An inventor in the Netherlands is working to make funerals biodegradable by growing what he calls a living coffin which, once buried, can enrich the soil and not pollute.</s>BOB HENDRIKX, INVENTOR OF THE LIVING COFFIN: It's made from mycelium, which is the root structure of mushrooms. So here you can see it really well. So this is mycelium. This is the mushroom, which is just the vegetative parts of, actually, the organism. And mycelium is nature's biggest recycler, so it's continuously looking for food and transforming it into new plants, nutritions. On the inside, you see a bed of moss, which makes sure, like, a lot of microorganisms are in here and help with the decomposition process, together with mycelium. Mycelium's natural function to transform/neutralize toxins in the body and in the soil into healthy -- healthy nutrients. For example, mycelium is used in Chernobyl to clean up the polluted soil there from the nuclear disaster. And the same thing happens in our burial places, because the soil is super-polluted there. And mycelium really likes metals, oils and microplastics. Our coffins should be able to decompose a human body in two to three years, compared to normal materials, that could be up to ten or even longer periods.</s>VAUSE: What a time to be alive, I guess. I'm John Vause. I will be back with more CNN NEWSROOM in about 15 minutes. WORLD SPORT is next.
Inventor Develops Coffin for Biodegradable Burials.