Spring Into Action

How It Works

Our customers are businesses and institutions with large quantities of end-of-life mattresses—hotels, retailers, universities, hospitals and nursing homes, and municipalities. Until now, our customers have generally had two options when disposing of their old mattresses: either sending them to waste facilities or to mattress renovators, who often resell used mattresses without properly sanitizing them. Neither option is acceptable for environmental and sanitary reasons. Spring Into Action provides the ideal solution by collecting mattresses and recycling the individual components to the greatest extent possible.

Seamless Integration

Working with Spring Into Action is easy. We coordinate collection with our customers and their suppliers, so that mattresses are removed at convenient times and frequencies.

Efficient

Mattresses arrive at our warehouse in the South Bronx, where our employees unload them, manually disassemble each unit, and segregate the recyclable materials. This simple process only takes about fifteen minutes per mattress and is currently the most economically and environmentally efficient way to recycle mattresses. Finally, the materials are sold or in some cases given to recyclers who use them in new products.

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Local

Spring Into Action helps people in the New York Metro Area take responsibility for an important part of our waste stream. We all spend approximately 1/3 of our lives on a mattress so we should at least try to show it some respect when we are done with it. Spring connects people to the complete life cycle of a product by ensuring responsibility from beginning to end.

You will feel great working with Spring Into Action because disposing of your mattress with us creates green collar jobs in the community for people who truly need them. Also, disposing of the mattress locally saves emissions from trucking containerized waste to out-of-state landfills, which helps protect our local environment.

Conserving Resources

Mattress recycling conserves resources.  Simply recycling 25% of mattresses and box springs annually disposed of in the US would conserve:

• 103,537 tons of steel
• 37,500 tons of polyurethane foam
• 55,013 tons of wood
• 1,183 million square feet of ticking
• 335 million square feet of batting
• 18,208,000 cubic yards of landfill space, assuming a 66% compression rate

Every ton of steel recycled saves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,400 pounds of coal, and 120 pounds of limestone.

Each year, steel recycling saves the energy equivalent to electrically power about one-fifth of the households in the United States (or about 18 million homes) for one year.

Preventing Unsanitary Mattress Resale

Rest assured, Spring Into Action guarantees that your mattress will never be resold or reused as a mattress. Mattress renovation and reuse is unsanitary and can have severe health consequences. Also, this practice contributes to the spread of unfriendly critters that everyone shudders at the mention of: bed bugs.

People Want to Recycle their Mattresses

Over 65% of consumers in the said that they are strongly against throwing mattresses into landfills and 81% said that they would select one retailer over another because of mattress recycling in a survey conducted by SOLInc. It is simple - people don’t like the idea of throwing mattresses away or reusing mattresses and neither do we.

Spring Into Action gives the people what they want: an environmentally and socially responsible way to dispose of mattresses at a reasonable cost.