Why Recycle Your Mattress

90% of a mattress can be transformed into reusable materials. However, the percentage of discarded mattresses that end up landfills is just as high. Let's change that together and change these statistics!

  • It takes 50 to 100 years for a mattress to decompose when dumped in a landfill.
  • Every mattress that is dumped into a landfill takes up 23 cubic feet of space.
  • There was an estimated 20 million mattresses dumped into landfills last year as the result of people buying new bedding. In 2015, New York State alone has a population of 19,378,102 residents and that number is steadily on the rise.
  • Mattresses dumped in landfills can only be buried where they sit and decompose letting different chemicals used to compose foam and fibers to seep into the ground and into our water supply.
  • The water is then returned to the ecosystem where it is consumed by humans, the animals we eat, and crops we depend on for nutrition.

Ways to Recycle your Mattress

  • Sell it
  • Reuse it (click for some DIY ideas!)
  • Donate it
  • Recycle thru a company

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