The Park City’s Green Team–Saving Municipalities Money In Mattress Disposal

Park City Green is one of those unique Bridgeport businesses with a spring in its step in more ways than one. The not-for-profit specializes in mattress deconstruction serving more than 50 municipalities in Connecticut as well as commercial volume program participants such as hospitals and universities. Since 2016 Park City Green has recycled more than 250,000 mattresses and they were doing it before Connecticut passed the mattress recycling law. Feature in Only in Bridgeport about MRC and contracted recycler impact on community. Learn More

Learn more about the Mattress Recycling Council

Waste Today video interview with MRC’s Managing Director Mike O’Donnell and Industry Communications Manager Lori Barnes. “We spoke with the Mattress Recycling Council about its efforts to keep more mattresses out of landfills and get more materials back into the material stream. Right now, about 70 percent of each mattress is recyclable. So far, more than 6 million mattresses have been recycled and kept out of landfills.” Learn More

Please Continue Recycling

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

For Earth Day, Mattress Recycling Council Provides Reminder Of The Importance of Recycling

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

Mattress Recycling Program Hits Milestones in Connecticut

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