Plant Salad
01-18-2012, 08:07 AM
Old mattresses are among the worst kinds of household waste: Most recycling companies won't touch them, and landfills would rather not. But a new business in Nashville that started as a college project hopes to move mattress recycling into the mainstream — and employ former convicts in the process.
Cutting into a mattress at Nashville's Spring Back workshop, Ron Harness runs his box cutter around a queen-size bed to fillet the fabric, in a process he admits is labor intensive. Even the best processing machines can only chew up a used mattress; recycling one requires manual labor.
Full Story: http://www.npr.org/2012/01/18/144633725/new-recycling-company-springs-from-old-mattresses?sc=fb&cc=fp
Cutting into a mattress at Nashville's Spring Back workshop, Ron Harness runs his box cutter around a queen-size bed to fillet the fabric, in a process he admits is labor intensive. Even the best processing machines can only chew up a used mattress; recycling one requires manual labor.
Full Story: http://www.npr.org/2012/01/18/144633725/new-recycling-company-springs-from-old-mattresses?sc=fb&cc=fp