# Bob Hendrikx

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Mycelial Coffins with Loop Biotech

The Loop Living Cocoon is the world's first living coffin designed by Bob Hendrikx of Loop Biotech. We talk about: - How the mycelial coffin is made- The laws and regulations behind different burial practices- The environmental impacts of these mycelial coffins versus traditional burial techniques-…

Loop's living coffin: Disrupting the burial industry

The Innovator Stories will kick off with PHIA 2021 winner Bob Hendrikx from Loop Biotech and our host Simon van Teutem. Learn everything about how Loop won the Philips Innovation Award and how participating boosted Loop's mission to enrich life after death with their living coffins. For more infor…

Will your corpse be waste or compost?

It’s the season finale of Non-toxic, and we’re thinking about endings. In this case, what happens to our bodies when we die. We’re asking why do we cremate people or pump them full of formaldehyde and then trap them in a casket six feet under? Bob Hendrikx, inventor and founder of Loop, thinks ther…

Scaling with Mycelium: How Bob Hendrikx changes the funeral industry with Living Coffins

Let me introduce Inventor, Biodesigner and Entrepreneur: Bob Hendrikx. With a background in Architectural Engineering Bob strives for a world in which we work in symbiosis with nature. In 2020 he founded Loop Biotech, on a mission to revolutionize the funeral industry - through coffins that turn pe…

Powering The Green Revolution with DeWarmte: Sander Wapperom's Journey to Sustainable Home Heating

Immediately after graduating from TU Delft, Sander and Auke developed an innovative product called HeatCycle - which recovers all heat from household wastewater. That led them to win the ASN World Prize in 2020. Later they added the sleek and smart AO heatpump, that won the iF Design Award 2024 out…

The world's first mushroom coffin

Mollie chats to Bob Hendrikx, CEO of Loop-Biotech, a company who produce living coffins made from mushrooms. A product that becomes one with nature in 45 days, enriching the earth and not polluting it. As the funeral industry becomes more environmentally conscious, could this be the way forward? Fo…

Mushroom Caskets, Brat Funerals & "Beautiful Rot"

This week on the show, Becky and Tash were joined by CEO and founder of Loop Biotech Bob Hendrikx, who is pioneering the future of sustainable funerals. Bob revealed how he began the journey of creating caskets made out of mushrooms which decompose in just 45 days. They also discussed how humans ca…

Bob Hendrikx: The Mushroom Casket - October 7, 2025

Bob Hendrikx⁠ – founder of ⁠Loop Biotech⁠ – tells David about ⁠Loop's eco-friendly mushroom coffin⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coffin made of mushrooms makes it way to NZ

A new type of compostable coffin grown largely from mushrooms has arrived in Aotearoa. The coffins are grown in the Netherlands from Mycelium, the underground root network of mushrooms and upcycled hemp fibres. The finished product looks a bit like an elongated egg or cocoon. Australia has its firs…

What are ‘mushroom’ coffins?

It’s becoming more of the case that when someone dies, their desire is to be buried in a more sustainable way. In a first for the country, a woman in Australia has been buried in a coffin made entirely out of mushrooms. So, how does it work? Bob Hendrikx, Founder of Loop Biotech, joins Seán to disc…