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

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

What’s the deal with mattress returns these days? This has been a topic of conversation lately, amongst both industry insiders and non-industry journalists alike. As more and more mattress brands are offering at-home trials and risk-free returns, it may seem like sending back a new mattress should be simple—but both the logistics and impact of high return rates are much more complicated than you may expect. Sleep Retailer writes about comfort returns and options available through MRC’s Bye Bye Mattress program. Learn More

The Mattress Recycling Council has launched the Sleep Products Sustainability Program (SP2), a new environmental certification and sustainability initiative for California mattress manufacturers. Training and certification in the program is offered at no cost to mattress manufacturers that want to improve operations at their manufacturing plants, distribution centers, warehouses and/or offices, officials said. Article in Furniture Today details the launch of MRC’s sustainability program. Learn More