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St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County (SVDP) based in Oregon, has established a mattress recycling program facility in California believing that the progressive state may be interested in this waste-management solution.

Disposed mattress amount to about 350,000 yearly and with this facility, SVDP can recycle about 200 mattress a month. These are mattresses that they can resell for cheap or donate to low-income families.

SVDP is a non-profit humanitarian organization that provides housing and care to many individuals, as well as the preservation of the quality of life and the environment.

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DR3, one of the very few mattress recycling unit in the United States, is a name derived from organizations slogan — “Divert Reduce Reuse Recycle.”.

The mattress recycling unit has facilities that would help keep landfills filled with old mattresses, as well as provide jobs for people, under the support of St. Vincent de Paul.

DR3 recycles some 10,000 mattresses monthly according to this report.

Its mattresses come from landfills throughout the Bay Area, local waste haulers and furniture retailers. They leave as components - bales of foam or cotton, and piles of scrap wood or metal springs.

This is a great news that will benefit Mother Earth! eMattress is now accepting old memory foam mattresses purchased from their stores for recycling.

The fact is, many garbage landfills are filled up to capacity with tons of old and dilapidated mattresses disposed every year. Mattresses are hard to recycle but since eMattress carry all-natural memory foam products, these are essentially biodegrable: