On the warehouse floor of Goodwill Industries in Duluth, Minnesota, mattresses and box springs are piled almost 20 high, lining the walls and walkways. Workers hustle through the maze. Ultimately, ...

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.

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 ...

ARLINGTON — Mattresses get stacked a dozen high in the Arlington Recycle Warehouse. There were about 300 of them piled into the 7,500-square-foot space Wednesday, waiting to be cut up and broken down.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mattress Recycling Council (MRC) proudly announces its 10 millionth recycled mattress, achieved through its statewide programs in California, ...

MOORHEAD — Mattresses are starting to pile up at the Clay County Resource Recovery Center, but the growing pile is not en route to the landfill. When taken to a landfill, mattresses are hard on ...

Until recently, if you threw away an old mattress in Amsterdam, it would likely end up in an incinerator—the same way that most of the 15 million-plus mattresses thrown out in the U.S. each year end ...