States that have passed laws requiring better stewardship of mattress recycling have created hundreds of new jobs, reduced landfill waste and saved millions of dollars in disposal costs, reports a ...

More than 10 million mattresses have been recycled in California since the Mattress Recycling Council (MRC) launched the Bye Bye Mattress program in the state. The organization, which has operations ...

Mattress recycling has been an option in Springfield since 2018. In addition to keeping old bedding out of the local landfill, the recycling program will now serve as a form of workforce development, ...

It’s Earth Month, and here on the Joy Beat, GBH’s All Things Considered is celebrating a story about sustainable transformation — of the planet and of people. When Massachusetts banned throwing out ...

In the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, residents buy about 350,000 new mattresses each year, according to the International Sleep Products Association. Of the old ones they replace, about half are ...

A Duluth-based company that invented a machine to recycle steel coils in used mattresses has sold the rights to an Australian company to build and sell the machines in that country. Clint Deraas, ...

The Department of Environmental Quality has rejected a plan from the Mattress Recycling Council. The agency cited concerns about outreach to rural and marginalized communities. It also asked for a ...

Since its launch in June 2021, the city of Loveland’s mattress and box spring recycling initiative has successfully diverted more than 166,000 pounds of waste from local landfills. In October, the ...