The Bio-Degradeable Mattress

What happens to an old mattress? Few people stop to wonder where a mattress goes after they no longer want it. The unfortunate reality is that the vast majority of them end up in landfills. There are estimates of more than 10 million mattresses going to landfills every year in the United States alone. Aside from the sheer space they occupy (23 cubic feet each on average), a large number of  mattresses are made up of various form of plastics that never entirely break down. Recycling these items can be very labor intensive and our state (along with many others) lacks the infrastructure to make recycling them cheap and/or easy. We, here at Soaring Heart, have been working with local officials and business leaders to get a viable recycling program going in our city and state, but that may take some time.