Sydney woman becomes first in Australia to be buried in mushroom coffin

Loop Living Cocoon says its coffin is world's first to be made of mushrooms. - (Loop Living Cocoon)

A Sydney woman has become the first person in Australia to be buried in a coffin grown from mushrooms, in a funeral that organisers say reflects a wider shift towards environmentally friendly ways of being laid to rest.

Carolyn, a woman in her 70s whose surname has been withheld at her family’s request, received a funeral service in Faulconbridge on Friday before being buried at Springwood Cemetery in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales.