In an email, Andrea Benvenuti, a technical service & development fellow, says Dow’s is the first industrial-scale process for chemical recycling of mattress foam. He adds that the company chose ...

He added, the company's initial step in the mattress foam recycling process starts at the foam recycling facilities, where proprietary machinery is used to trigger dynamic covalent bond exchanges to ...

That’s how Sleep Well Recycling was born ... New Jersey company converts foam and toppers to carpet underlay. Costa estimates Sleep Well diverted over 80,000 mattresses from the landfill ...

Mattresses are harder to recycle than other items like plastic ... "We don't set the price for a ton of foam or steel," Conway said. "One day we might get 18 cents a pound and the next week ...

Mike O’Donnell, chief operating officer of the Mattress Recycling Council, showed off a cell phone cover that had been made from processed, extruded foam. Cartledge said SVdP is working on a new ...

foam, steel and fiber, can be recycled. The economics can be challenging for recyclers. Some states have enacted mattress recycling laws that make it cheaper for consumers. However, state programs ...