[3] A fan system is set up to provide air that ensures enough oxygen is getting to the body, and the soft tissue[4] breaks down in about a month, transforming into about two wheelbarrows worth of soil.

[5] To prove natural organic reduction as safe and effective, Recompose participated in a study with Western Washington University designed and managed by soil scientist Lynne Carpenter-Boggs.

[6] Six donors participated in the study and Boggs, who is working for recompose as a paid advisor,[7] indicated the result "was clean, rich, odorless soil that passed all federal and state safety guidelines for potentially hazardous pathogens and pollutants, such as metals".

The original plan for a 18,500-square-foot facility, designed by architecture firm Olson Kundig, housing 75 vessels "arranged to surround a large, airy gathering space[18] were put on hold due to COVID 19.

[19] Instead, a much smaller location which Spade describes as “a workhorse facility” that holds only 10 vessels and has no public-gathering space opened in Kent, Washington.