A leading idea comes from Canada—the city of Vancouver banned mattresses from being picked up by garbage collectors at the beginning of 2011. About.com reports that the amount of mattresses and box springs recycled in the first eight months of the ban could be stacked to tower one and half times the height of Mount Everest. I know that sounds like an exaggerated telling of The Princess and the Pea, but it’s both true and amazing how much waste was repurposed in a single city.
Hard at work stripping a mattress
Mattress recycling doesn’t just save
worthwhile materials from the dump, however; it also provides jobs, as the
mattresses must be sliced open by workers to pull out the valuable steel, foam,
Dacron, and cotton. We have three mattress-recycling employees working right in
our location at 12 Mustard Seed Lane in Orlando. The Mustard Seed has
personally recycled enough mattresses to cover two football fields, which is
one small step for recycling, but one giant bed for one person! We can pick
them up from your home or business, and will merely ask for a donation to go
towards gas and maintenance for our trucks. If you would call us at
407-875-2040 we’ll help you recycle your mattress today!