Quick — which household items do you frequently recycle? Cans and bottles? Paper and plastics? What about your bed? When it’s time to buy a new bed, did you know you can now recycle your mattress?
Discarded beds are clogging up our nation’s landfills. Did you know that U.S. citizens get rid of nearly 18 million mattresses every year? That’s according to the bed and mattress industry group known as the International Sleep Products Association (ISPA).