It’s Kuhl To Recycle: Sweet Dreams
Give Your Mattress A Second Life
By Mark Kuhl
For the GPHN
Over 30 million mattresses end up in landfill every year in the U.S. Thankfully a couple mattress recyclers set up shop in Denver to help us reduce the burden on landfill and reclaim the steel, foam, ticking, cotton, and wood used to construct our beds.
Spring Back Colorado springbackco.org provides this environmental service and at the same time provides a social benefit as they offer jobs to individuals who have recovered from drug addiction. You can drop off your mattress for $30 at 4975 Pontiac St. in Commerce City, or they’ll pick it up for an additional $45.
A Bedder World abedderworld.com also recycles mattresses. They have a handy on-line scheduling and payment system and they charge a flat $65 pick-up fee and another $30 for the mattress. For additional cost they’ll take almost any type of bed — for instance, pull-out sofas, futons, adjustable hospital beds, etc.
Mark Kuhl is an environmental advocate who lives in Park Hill with his family. His handy tips and news about recycling household items appear every month in these pages. A directory of his past columns for recycling everything from paint to Styrofoam to shoes is at greaterparkhill.org/sustainability/recycling-directory/.