A Duluth-based company that invented a machine to recycle steel coils in used mattresses has sold the rights to an Australian company to build and sell the machines in that country. Clint Deraas, ...

Mattress abandonment is a serious problem for local governments and their landfill operations. The numbers are staggering. In the United States alone, more than 50,000 mattresses are dumped illegally ...

If you want to recycle a mattress in Ventura, you can drop it off for free at one of five local sites or, if you live in a single-family home, you can call your trash hauler to arrange for curbside ...

After spending hundreds — if not thousands — of dollars for a new mattress, a good night’s sleep is likely more on the minds of shoppers in Connecticut than the recycling fee tacked onto the purchase.

When David Traub visited a landfill for the first time to dump a truckload of wood and drywall from a home improvement project, he expected to find a big pit full of junk and trash. He did not expect ...

It’s Earth Month, and here on the Joy Beat, GBH’s All Things Considered is celebrating a story about sustainable transformation — of the planet and of people. When Massachusetts banned throwing out ...

Donating my old queen-sized mattress proved difficult. I recycled it and paid nearly $100 for the service in New York. More than 75% of mattress materials, like wood, foam, steel and fiber, can be ...