Why and How to recycle Mattresses
Nearly all of any given mattress can be recycled. Learn about the process, and what you can do to ensure your old mattress is properly recycled.
Why Recycle?
Through mattress recycling, millions of unnecessary pounds of waste can be prevented each year:
Over 30 million mattresses are sent to landfills across the country each year!
Mattresses range in size from 27 to 60 cubic feet and average 60 lbs.
Mattresses decompose slowly in a landfill, often taking over a decade.
Mattresses absorb hazardous materials and store flammable pockets of air.
If thrown in machinery, mattresses can destroy compacter due to bulkiness and metal coils.
What We can Do:
When we first tore a mattress apart, we were surprised by the amount of foam, cotton, felt, wood, and metal that we found. After dis-assembly, Spring Back’s strength is the ability to source each of these materials to their respective buyers, recycling nearly 100% of each mattress.
So where do these materials go? As each mattress and box spring is deconstructed, each material is separated and baled appropriately. Material buyers then repurpose the scrap, giving new life to each mattress:
Ø Our foam, cotton and felt is re-purposed into items such as carpet padding
Ø Our Steel is melted at a foundry and ultimately re-purposed into new items.
Ø Our wood is sent to the chipper and re-purposed into landscape mulch.
What can be recycled inside a mattress and box spring
Mattresses contain three main components.
1) The heaviest is the spring steel, which can go straight to a metal recycler.
2) Most mattresses have polyurethane foam, another highly recyclable product that can be used to make carpet padding and other products.
3) The remaining commodity in mattresses is cotton. It is the trickiest item to sell, but is sometimes used as insulation.
Box springs add a fourth component — wood, which makes up the sturdy frame. That wood can be sent to a recycling facility, where it is chipped and used to make garden supplements or burned as fuel.
Mattresses may contain dozens of other materials, including plastic; pads made from jute, sisal or waste textile material; cord handles for carrying the mattress; and the fabric covering. Most of these products cannot be recycled on a large scale, although they have some creative uses. Those jute pads are great for garden pathways, as they are sturdy and thick but will eventually compost into the ground.
Any mattress recycler worth their salt will tell you that 85% to 90% of the average mattress or box spring can be recycled. It is a remarkable number given that, if you leave a mattress whole, nothing gets recycled and none of it will biodegrade.
Where to find suitable and professional recycling equipment?
SRECYCLING offers a range of products, from our partner companies, to help you achieve the results you’re after. Not sure what you need, or what it costs? We can explain what services are right for you and tell you more about the process.
SRECYCLING specialises in providing services globally.
SRECYCLING, works with hands-on experience in engineering who understand the special technical requirements of process engineering as applied to recycling technology. They plan, project manage and manufacture individual machines or complete systems based on the customer’s request.
SRECYCLING can supply professional waste disposal equipment:
- Baler for any scraps, like metal,plastic, paper, cardboard, tyre, rubbers etc.
- Shredder for any scraps,which can shred large scraps into small pieces
- Recycling solution, provide complete systems based on the customer’s request, like oil filter recycling line, radiator recycling line, oil drums recycling line, bulky waste recycling line etc.
and many other machines
FACTORY DETAILS
Anhui Wali Environmental Protection Technology Ltd., （Hereinafter referred to as WALI）is an emerging enterprise engaging in solid waste volume reduction.
WALI has rich experience in crusher design and production, through introducing advanced shredding technology experience from developed countries in Europe and the United States and combining with domestic market demand. It continuously forges ahead, invents a number of patents in the field of garbage crushing, which solves the problem of crushing all kinds of materials, and provide customers with better products and services.
WALI provides a sound solution to the recycling and disposal of the waste, it makes the waste resources can be reused, making continuous effort for our environmental protection and improvement.
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