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MRC News -- Happy 5th Birthday to MRC, COVID-19 Update, Updated Collection Guidelines and Publicity Toolkits Available, plus more. Learn More
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We are most interested in proposals focused on proving the technical feasibility of an innovation for achieving the targeted use for the recycled material.
We are unlikely to fund proposals to incinerate the reclaimed materials but might be interested in those that convert the material into new or synthetic fuels.
We are unlikely to fund projects to further develop research topics already receiving funding or that focus on existing uses of reclaimed mattress materials.
MRC News -- Happy 5th Birthday to MRC, COVID-19 Update, Updated Collection Guidelines and Publicity Toolkits Available, plus more. Learn More
Ray and Joe D. on WTIC Talk 1080 in Hartford interviewed MRC’s Justine Fallon about MRC and Bye Bye Mattress in Connecticut. “This important recycling program continues in Connecticut as an essential service during the Covid-19 shutdown. Towns are still accepting mattresses and the recycling plants are open and working.” Learn More
With Earth Day celebrated on April 22, the Mattress Recycling Program is set to mark its five-year anniversary, on May 1. Mattress recycling operations continue at facilities such as Willimantic Waste, even during the COVID-19 shutdown. More than 80 percent of a mattress can be recycled, eliminating tons of waste from landfills. MRC has focused its efforts on sustainable mattress recycling, and has become a leader in an evolving worldwide recycling landscape. Article in the Hartford Courant noting MRC’s six million mattress milestone and mattress recycling in Connecticut. Learn More
Today, April 22, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. What a milestone. It is fitting that while Earth Day has reached this auspicious milestone, the Mattress Recycling Council (MRC) reached an environmental milestone of its own: recycling more than six million mattresses in less than five years through its Bye Bye Mattress program. Six million mattresses equate to more than 210 million pounds of material diverted from landfills by MRC’s recyclers. This is an op-ed appearing in the Connecticut Mirror on Earth Day detailing the success of MRC program-wide and in Connecticut. Learn More
MRC News -- COVID-19 Update, 6 Million Mattresses Recycled, New Resources Now Available, plus more. Learn More
MRC recently completed lean manufacturing assessments for mattress recycling companies through MWS & Associates. Lean is an improvement and problem-solving methodology that strives to reduce… Learn More
The Mattress Recycling Council has recycled more than 6 million mattresses in less than five years through its Bye Bye Mattress program. Laid end to end, those mattresses would span more than 7,000 miles from coast-to-coast between the program’s three states. The line would stretch from California to Connecticut and Rhode Island and back again, MRC officials said. Among others, Furniture Today ran an article about the achievement. Learn More
MRC recently completed lean manufacturing assessments for mattress recycling companies through MWS & Associates. Twelve recyclers participated, with each facility receiving a confidential report detailing… Learn More
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The Mattress Recycling Council (MRC) announced it has recycled more than six million mattresses in less than five years through its Bye… Learn More