Amanda Jones removes the fabric from a mattress at Willis Dady Works, 800 First Ave. NW, in Cedar Rapids on Friday. Willis Dady first partnered with Iowa City Landfill and Recycling for the program.

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 ...

Mattress recycling has been an option in Springfield since 2018. In addition to keeping old bedding out of the local landfill, the recycling program will now serve as a form of workforce development, ...

Sit ’n Sleep mattress stores, has for state Sen. Loni Hancock, who has authored one of two competing bills that would set up statewide mattress recycling programs. Both bills aim to solve a ...

Does anyone ever question the basic assumptions of recycling? How do we know energy consumption and pollution created during collection, transportation and recycling of some items does not exceed the ...