Ummmm, NO!!! Eeew!! Who wants to sleep with a dirty old mattress? Not us! So what do you do with your dirty old mattress?
Do you dump it in the street?
Do you dump it in the street?
Do you dump it along a fence?
Do you dump it near the light rail?
Do you dump it in a field?
Or do you dump it in the landfill where over 20,000,000 mattresses end up every year. That's right, 20 million mattresses!!! They don't disappear over night either. It takes years for them to break down. The sad part is, everything used to make a mattress is usually 95-100% recyclable. The difficulty is taking them apart and separating these different materials for use in new products. We're up to the challenge though, so on July 1st, 2011, we'll start recycling mattresses! So join us in cutting down on Charlotte's waste stream. The next time you're ready to throw that mattress to the curb, think about where it will go. We can assure you, if the city picks it up, it's going to the dump.
So spend a few bucks and assure your mattress lives on forever!
