I paid $95 to recycle a mattress. 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 ...

Mattress abandonment is a serious problem for local governments and their landfill operations. The numbers are staggering. In the United States alone, more than 50,000 mattresses are dumped illegally ...

Covestro has entered into a long-term research partnership with the Mattress Recycling Council. Its aim is to improve and expand mattress recycling in the U.S. The company hopes the collaboration will ...

Daily, thousands of used mattresses are simply thrown away around the globe. While the steel springs are easy enough to scrap, the bulky polyurethane foam often ends up in a permanent 120-year home in ...

Does anyone ever question the basic assumptions of recycling? How do we know energy consumption and pollution created during collection, transportation and recycling of some items does not exceed the ...

It’s Earth Month, and here on the Joy Beat, GBH’s All Things Considered is celebrating a story about sustainable transformation — of the planet and of people. When Massachusetts banned throwing out ...

Until recently, if you threw away an old mattress in Amsterdam, it would likely end up in an incinerator—the same way that most of the 15 million-plus mattresses thrown out in the U.S. each year end ...