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Bye Bye Mattress Program recycles over 200,000 mattresses per year in Connecticut
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — The Bye Bye Mattress Program, launched 10 years ago by the Mattress Recycling Council, has recycled 1.7 million mattresses since its start.
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Connecticut was the first state in the country to establish a mattress recycling program such as this.
'We didn't have a model to follow. I mean we had to figure it out. It had to be accountable, it had to be efficient,' Pat Widlitz, a former state legislator, said.
Now, Connecticut recycles just over 200,000 mattresses per year. Instead of being left on the side of a road, mattresses are now placed in bins located across the state. They're later transferred to two recycling locations, where the deconstruction process begins.
It's a process that's freeing our landfills of waste and saving consumers and municipalities a significant sum of money over the last decade.
Anyone looking to recycle their mattress can use the following link.
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