Ohio Mattress Recovery is a proud member of (ACUHO-I)

 Association College and Housing Officers International

We prevent mattresses from going to the landfill.

Ohio Mattress Recovery recycled over 1,000,000 pounds of mattresses.

Yes, it is true, Ohio Mattress Recovery and Recycling has surpassed the 1,000,000 pound goal we have set for ourselves. We have now set our sights for the 5,000,000 millioj pound mark. If your company is interested in purchasing green carbon offset credits call us for more details.

If one were to assume that each of the 300,000,000 citizens of the United States had one full sized mattress and all these mattresses were to be disposed of side by side and end to end at one time - the area covered by these discarded mattresses would be about twenty percent of the surface area of the State of Rhode Island. Alternatively, this would require a landfill of over 300 square miles or a one-mile wide strip of mattresses running 300 miles in length. 100 mattresses stacked together and laid on their side would fill an olympic size swimming pool

Giving Back

We are firm believers in giving back, 10 % of the proceeds from the recycled materials of each project are given back to our customers or donated to a local charity. Colleges and universities will have the money donated to their schools scholarship fund or sustainability office. 10% of the proceeds from each job will be donated to a local charity on both companies behalf. Let us know what we could do to earn your business and help your organization become more sustainable and reduce its environmental footprint. The cost to recycle a mattress with us ranges from $5.50 to $12.00 per bed depending on volume. We also provide pick-up services to  colleges, universities, hospitals and businesses.

AFP/Getty Images/File–A file photo of a new mattress in San Francisco, California in 2009. A stash of cash landed in the trash…

By IAN DEITCH, Associated Press Writer Ian Deitch, Associated Press Writer – 24minsago

JERUSALEM – An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress she said had almost $1 million inside, setting off a frantic search through tons of garbage at a number of landfill sites on Wednesday.

The woman told The Associated Press that she bought her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise present on Monday — and threw out the old one.

The next day, she said, she remembered that she had hidden her life savings inside the old mattress. "I woke up in the morning screaming, when it hit me what happened," said the Tel Aviv woman, who asked not to be identified.

She went to look for the mattress, but it had already been hauled away by garbage collectors, she said. Searches at three different landfill sites turned up nothing.

She said the money was in U.S. dollars and Israeli shekels. She refused to say how she acquired such a large sum. "It was all my money in the world," she said. There was no way to verify her claims, and she refused to disclose key details.

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said he was not familiar with the case and no report had been filed.

The Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot published a picture of the woman searching through garbage at a dump in southern Israel. The picture shows the woman, dressed in a white top and black pants with her back to the camera, picking through a huge pile of trash that fills the frame about 10 feet in all directions.

Yitzhak Borba, the dump manager, told Army Radio that his staff was helping the woman, saying she appeared "totally desperate." He said the mattress was hard to find among the 2,500 tons of garbage that arrives at the site every day.

He said the increased security at the site to keep would-be treasure hunters away.

The woman said the money had been stashed in a mattress because she had had "traumatic experiences with banks" in the past. She would not elaborate.

THE CASE FOR DESTRUCTION AND RECYCLING:

1) Lost Revenue ? every time a mattress or boxspring is sent to a rebuilder/refurbisher, it hurts mattress manufacturers and retailers. While many rebuilders/refurbishers claim to export their final product, in reality most are sold locally at a reduced price. As such, the rebuilt mattresses and boxsprings compete directly against the lower end units manufactured by most mattress manufacturing companies and sold by retailers in the United States.

Did You Know?

• Each trailer of mattresses is the equivalent of two swimming pools of waste kept out of landfills.
• The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year.
• The highest point in Ohio is "Mount Rumpke," which is actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill!
• A 60-watt light bulb can be run for over 30 days on the amount of energy saved by recycling 1 twin mattress!
• US steel recycling saves enough energy in one year to heat and light 18,000,000 homes!

Please contact us if you are in the mattress industry for free advertising.

Ohio Mattress Recovery and recycling is much cheaper than competitiors such as Conigliaro Industries when it comes to picking up mattresses for colleges and Universities......call for details.

Bed Bugs living in new or refurbished mattresses

After decades in obscurity, bedbugs have returned to the United States to take up residence in a place where they can live long-term, rent-free and have all the food they need -- in mattresses all over the country. These small, blood-******* pests sneak out during the night, feed, and then retreat. Sometimes the only evidence they leave behind are hideous welts running up arms and legs. The mattress business has been investigated-- specifically, reconditioned mattresses that are supposed to be stripped and sterilized, re-covered and sold for less than what you'd pay for a new one. What was found was shocking. Beneath new covers, filthy old materials were contaminated with urine, fecal matter and dangerous fungi, all of which can seep out through the cover over time. We also found a dead bedbug with its eggs. Orkin Pest Control Company now reports bedbug infestations in all 50 states

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