Mattress recycling resources

The following is a list of resources intended to give more information about mattress recycling. Visit the main LinkUp Mattress site for up to date information on mattress recycling legislation and news or to find a mattress recycling location in King County. Organizations listed are not necessarily affiliated with or endorsed by King County.

• Organizations & Programs
• Reports & Articles

Organizations & programs
(not necessarily affiliated with or endorsed by King County)

• Spring Back Mattress Recycling Northwest external link , division of the nonprofit NW Furniture Bank, Tacoma, Washington
• Arlington Recycle Warehouse external link , Arlington, Washington (in Snohomish County)
• Parklane Mattresses’ Green Bed Recycling external link , mattress manufacturer-retailer that takes back mattresses for recycling in Portland-Vancouver metro-region and southwest Washington

Note that Correctional Industries, of the Washington State Department of Corrections, no longer recycles mattresses as of August 1, 2014, and R5 Systems went out of business in early 2014.

• Metro Vancouver – Banned and Prohibited Materials external link British Columbia, Canada
  • Metro Vancouver video WeRecycle Mattresses external link
• MattressRecycling.ca external link , Burnaby, BC, Canada
• Canadian Mattress Recycling external link , Delta, BC, Canada
• Recyc-Mattresses Inc. external link , Langley, BC, Canada

• St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County, Mattress Recycling external link , Eugene, Oregon and DR3 Mattress Recycling external link , Oakland, California
• Cascade Alliance external link , managed by St Vincent de Paul of Lane County, members receive free consulting to help establish a waste-based business
• Santa Cruz County – Mattress Disposal Prohibited external link Santa Cruz, California

• Connecticut Mattress Product Stewardship Working Group external link Stakeholder Meetings, Minutes, and Related Materials, Hartford, Connecticut
• Connecticut Dept. of Environmental Protection external link Mattress Recycling information, permitting, and product stewardship, Hartford, Connecticut

• PPL Industries Mattress Recycling Business Plan Download PDF external link (2008), Hennepin County, Minnesota
• Second Chance Recycling Program (formerly PPL Industries) (external), Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Product Stewardship Institute external link , Boston, MA non-profit facilitating and developing product stewardship approaches to mattresses and other products
• International Sleep Products Association (ISPA) external link , trade association of the U.S. mattress manufacturing industry
• Mattress Recycling Council (MRC) external link , nonprofit mattress stewardship organization created by ISPA to develop and implement mattress stewardship programs in CT, CA, and RI
• CalRecycle Mattress Management website (external)

Reports & articles

2017

• IKEA U.S. introduces national mattress recycling program external link Oct. 2, 2017
• Report: State of the Mattress Recycling Industry Download PDF white paper from the Cascade Alliance, July 2017
• Report: Assessment of Economic and Environmental Impacts of Mattress Recycling in BC Download PDF Morrison Hershfield for Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2017
• Report: Bye Bye Mattress California 2016 annual report Download PDF Mattress Recycling Council (MRC) for CalRecycle, June 30, 2017
• Better bedfellows: how mattress manufacturers [in Australia] are stopping the waste external link The Guardian, June 23, 2017
• Fire destroys Vancouver mattress recycling facility external link Vancouver Courier, June 16, 2017
• Mattress recycling alive and well in Duluth external link Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, May 11, 2017
• The Princess and the Pain Point: 4 strategies for scale from a local mattress recycling effort that is going beyond waste reduction and expanding across the United States external link Stanford Social Innovation Review, March 17, 2017
• Mattress Recycling Council (MRC) Marks Millionth Mattress Milestone external link Mattress Recycling Council, Jan. 27, 2017
• Sleeper success secured in Metro recycling business: Keeping discarded beds and other furniture out of landfills a rapidly expanding enterprise external link Business Vancouver, Jan. 10, 2017

2016

• The economics of mattress recycling: the spring’s the thing external link Marketplace, Nov. 29, 2016
• Mattress Recycling: A Success Story external link Sleep Savvy magazine, Nov. 16, 2016
• Connecticut MRC program's annual report released – 150,000 mattresses diverted from landfill external link Mattress Recycling Council, Nov. 4, 2016
• Carpet and mattress recycling poses significant challenge external link LetsRecycle.com (UK), Oct. 6, 2016
• ‘World’s first’ automated pocket spring mattress recycling machine external link Waste Management World, Oct. 5, 2016
• Citizen Terry: no waste goes to waste on Terry McDonald's watch external link Eugene Weekly, Aug. 25, 2016
• Mattress recycling faces market challenges, report warns external link LetsRecycle.com (UK), Aug. 19, 2016
• Report: Second (UK) National Bed Federation mattress recycling report (2016 End of Life (EoL) Mattress Report) external link National Bed Federation (UK), July 2016
• Metro Vancouver (BC) seeks mattress EPR law external link Northwest Product Stewardship Council, July 2016
• Connecticut mattress recycler hit with OSHA fines after failing to correct violations external link Waste Dive, July 19, 2016
• OSHA cites East Hartford mattress recycler for uncorrected, new and recurring hazards for workers: Recyc-Mattress Corp. faces $74K in penalties external link OSHA News Release, July 15, 2016
• Green Living: New R.I. mattress program covers the cost of disposal external link Providence Journal, May 15, 2016
• Ocean state (Rhode Island) waves hello to Bye Bye Mattress external link Mattress Recycling Council, April 29, 2016
• Arlington recycler makes use of the entire discarded mattress external link Everett Herald, April 9, 2016
• Video: Mike O'Donnell, Managing Director for the Mattress Recycling Council (external, YouTube) presentation to the NCRA 2016 Recycling Update, April 2016
• MRC launches illegal mattress dumping compensation program in California external link Mattress Recycling Council, March 3, 2016
• Old mattress dumped for free under new state program external link San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 16, 2016