Donating my old queen-sized mattress proved difficult. I recycled it and paid nearly $100 for the service in New York. More than 75% of mattress materials, like wood, foam, steel and fiber, can be ...

When David Traub visited a landfill for the first time to dump a truckload of wood and drywall from a home improvement project, he expected to find a big pit full of junk and trash. He did not expect ...

This article appeared in the February 2025 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. Combining mattress recycling with social and workforce services has emerged as ...

Thousands of mattresses will find new life though a successful recycling program in California. "We're pulling in an awful lot of foam and steel and wood from all these mattresses that we recycle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the course of one year, Eugene recycled enough mattresses to stack 10 Mount Hoods on top of one another. Laid end to end ...

While recycling services in New Brunswick have expanded in recent years, a new plant in Miramichi would fill the gap in recycling dry waste items that don’t currently have local processing solutions.

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mattress Recycling Council (MRC) is encouraging Californians to take advantage of its Bye Bye Mattress program on Nov.15, Keep America Beautiful's ...

It may sound odd, silly even, to pay so much to dispose of a run-of-the-mill household item. But the economics of mattress recycling illustrate why it can be difficult — and costly — to be an ...