making our economy more ‘circular’
Used mattresses constitute a problematic waste stream because of their weight and bulkiness and the sheer number that gets disposed of every year. For example, it has been estimated that, in 2017, the UK disposed of around 7.26 million mattresses, weighing a total of 181,500 tonnes, or 0.8% of the country’s total household waste.* At least tens of millions more are disposed of every year in Southeast Asia and South Asia.
To make the problem worse, mattress recycling is uneconomical due to the low economic value of the materials that can be recovered from used mattresses and the high logistic cost of used mattress collection. Most mattresses end up in landfills, openly incinerated, and polluting the environment.
We help solve these issues by incorporating used mattress retrieval and recycling/upcycling costs into our monthly subscription fees and retrieving used mattresses at the end of every subscription cycle for recycling/upcycling without any additional charge.
We stand to help reduce the global warming, air pollution and human non-carcinogenic toxicity impacts resulting from the production, use and disposal of mattresses by at least 31%, 28% and 24% respectively.**
Our ultimate goal is to reduce the amount of waste in the production and consumption systems and ensure that our finite resources are used more productively, thereby driving our world towards a more sustainable, Circular Economy.
Come join us on this journey.
*End of Life Mattress Report 2019 by the National Bed Federation (UK); Oakdene Hollins, July 2019