| When you go through your research and shop | | | | operating the landfill when their steel spring wires get |
| endlessly for the right mattress to give you and | | | | tangled up in the landfill equipments' running gear. |
| yours years of restful nights - then your purchase is | | | | Over time, some mattresses actually surface and |
| indeed a mattress that is a mattress. | | | | have a cost to re-bury them. Because bulk items like |
| After about ten or fifteen years the ability of your | | | | mattresses take up a lot of space in the landfill, the |
| perfect mattress to provide you and yours the | | | | life of the landfill you paid for earlier is cut short and |
| comfortable peaceful rest that it once did fades | | | | once again you will be paying for a new landfill so |
| away. Eventually you start the new mattress | | | | that trash does not pile up around your dwelling. |
| purchasing cycle over again as you seek to regain all | | | | You've seen those images of New York when the |
| the benefits that a good night's rest brings into your | | | | City's Sanitation workers went on strike. |
| life. | | | | And, there are other hidden fees in the landfill and |
| When you purchase this new perfect mattress for | | | | trash collection service overhead that no one other |
| you and yours, that first mattress you bought may | | | | than a CPA could ever figure out for sure. |
| well become excess and that is when a mattress is | | | | Thankfully, there are a handful of grass roots |
| no longer a mattress - at least not to you. The old | | | | mattress recycling facilities that have sprung up to |
| mattress is now your disposal problem - what to do | | | | properly dispose of unwanted mattresses in an |
| with it? | | | | environmentally correct manner which also creates |
| While prudent people may well find a second use for | | | | jobs. The government has as of yet not stepped in |
| the old mattress, such as letting someone in the | | | | like they did with used tire legislation and created a |
| family upgrade their bedding if the old mattress is | | | | lawful system of proper mattress disposal that gets |
| better than what they currently have, making a few | | | | old mattresses off the roadsides and out of the |
| bucks or giving the mattress away on craigslist, | | | | landfills via recycling the cotton, felt, foam, steel and |
| donating it to a local charity, or as most folks end up | | | | other reusable components of the mattress. |
| doing, disposing of the old mattress in the local landfill. | | | | Several green mattress manufacturers have begun |
| We submit to you that disposing of your old | | | | selling new mattresses that are more earth friendly |
| mattress in the local landfill costs you a lot more | | | | (Meaning less toxic components in mattresses.) and |
| money than you are aware of because of all the | | | | there is hope that some day in the future mattress |
| hidden costs. What? Yes, hidden costs. | | | | manufacturers will be able to take back the old |
| As a taxpayer, your taxes went to buy the landfill or | | | | mattresses they sold years ago, recycle those old |
| as a customer of a private trash hauling company | | | | mattresses themselves, and after appropriate |
| that owns and/or operates the landfill - a chunk of | | | | sanitation of the components, reuse the old mattress |
| your monthly fees goes towards paying for that | | | | material to manufacture new mattresses. The latter - |
| company's investment in the landfill property. You | | | | all manufacturer method - approaches zero waste |
| also, one way or another, pay for the operation of | | | | which benefits everyone in the loop as well as the |
| the landfill and mattresses increase the cost of | | | | environment. Hold this thought, as it is the future. |