The International Sleep Products Association (ISPA) and the Mattress Recycling Council (MRC) celebrate the 10-year ...

The International Sleep Products Association (ISPA) and Mattress Recycling Council (MRC) held a news conference Wednesday with the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to ...

Connecticut’s industry-led mattress recycling program has led to 1.7 million mattresses being recycled since its inception 10 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant) Mattress recycling is attractive as a business ... from the sale of raw materials — steel, cotton, foam and wood — that are reclaimed from mattresses.

Triad Recycling president and founder John Hannon, in front of piles of foam recently stripped from mattresses. Photo: Kevin Purdy The problem, Triad president and founder John Hannon told me ...

Even the best processing machines can only chew up a used mattress; recycling one requires manual labor. Harness rips off a cotton sheet, peels away a layer of foam, and shoves the steel springs ...

Do they recycle any of the material?-- J. Belli, Bridgeport, CT A typical mattress is a 23 cubic foot assembly of steel, wood, cotton and polyurethane foam. Given this wide range of materials ...