How to recycle a mattress
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 เม.ย. 2018
- Gabriel Armenia, 20, who is employed at DR3 Recycling in south Stockton, works to meet his daily goal of stripping down 55 mattresses and box springs to reclaim recyclable materials such as steel, foam, cotton and wood. His efforts keep bulky mattresses out of landfills and off the streets, where they are often dumped.
This video should be re-titled, how to tear foam off a mattress. I wasted 3 minutes of my life and there was ZERO INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO RECYCLE ANY PART OF A MATTRESS WHATSOEVER. Please unpublish this video or at least change the title.
@Brittany2009 K thanks very much... I'm considering posting my own video... I was able to "Re-Use" all of the pillow top and i'm preparing to cut all the springs from the metal stock frame, so I can re-use that as well. I haven't found a good use for the metal springs or the basic cloth cover, which I threw away. I did make two overstuffed lounge pillows from the stuffing and two full size fold up mats from the pillow top. However none of that is technically "recycle." Do you have any ideas for the springs or the cloth? I saw some people doing art with the springs but it's pretty hokey... Nothing i'd like to put on display... :P
wish i read your comment, but the video was informative still lol
When that padding topper is (quilt stitched for a better word) to a foam layer, especially on an expensive mattress, that piece can go right into a washing machine and makes the most wonderful big piece of material to make a cover for a recliner chair out of it. I saved one off of a waterbed mattress pouch I bought 30 years ago, it is over a recliner chair as I key this recommendation, and is the most comfortable easy to move against foam covered material that if I had to hunt for this fabric in an yard goods store I would never find it. To think I almost tossed it, but then decided to wait a bit to give me a little more time to think of a use. So glad I waited, it is not just wonderful, but launderable as well, and smells soooo nice.
Good job. I'd wear a dust mask though. Guy must have a good immune system ;)
I'd also be wearing headphones.
i was thinking omg... imagine all the dead skin cells floating around in there!
@@ElJorro health and safety mann, with that forklift driving about everywhere... 😬
I really don't want to hoist a dirty used mattress up and rest it on my face.
Im from the UK and i did this as a job in the UK for 2 days with a 50 mattress a day target. On the 2nd day my back blew out and I still have back issues to this day 11 years later.... back then we wasnt taught proper manual handling of extremely heavy King and Queen sized mattresses, it happened to a lot of other guys too and eventually the whole factory got shut down by health and safety.
good to know. thanks for your input
Imagine finding a stash of cash
I do this job. Haven't ever found any cash, only bugs and various human bodily fluids. Sorry to disappoint
@ Victoria Brown - I find it interesting that a woman would be interested in this line of work. Anyway, I always BUG my friend (pun intended) because he drives in his pick up pucking used mattress from the trash. I’m all for recycling but I hear nothing is done to clean the inside of the mattress. 🤮
Recycling mattresses shouldn't even be a thing, how is that not a health hazard
I'm interested in DR3, and where do the stripped down materials go, after this point in the video.
It certainly feels like a great waste of materials every time I've thrown a mattress into a landfill.
All the foam, exterior and springs. And the Box Spring, same waste. A real shame.
So, I understand the need for DR3... So, Is there more?
I save my mattress topper fabric that is quilt stitched to foam, put it right in the washing machine, and right now I have one from a mattress I bought 30 years ago as a cover for a recliner chair that improves the feel of the chair so greatly and so nice and clean.
I came to this video to see if any box springs were recycled to use as green bean trellis's in the garden or for morning glory flowers, etc.
Enough of them and a fence around the entire garden could be made.
quality mattress
I would wear a mask.
I took my whole mattress apart, like you did in this video, expecting to give away the spring innards to a scrap person, .........then I saw, like your mattress in this video, that each and every coil is individually wrapped in like a nylon pouch, then all pouches glued together.
:::::sigh:::::
Now,..... there are like 2500 individually wrapped steel coils. Who the heck has the time to separate and unwrap each one???
Ughhhhhh
I need to figure out asap how to dispose of this. Needless to say, this part is VERY HEAVY and awkward to maneuver.
Any suggestions anyone??
Cut off the tops of the pocket, and individually remove the springs
Hit me
Up when you know 😂
Can you get a blow torch and burn the stuff off of the steel springs?
I hope these mattress are going to prisoners in jail
stupid questions, but interesting insight.
Okay
I know this guy
is he cool
😂😂😂
He calls the top piece foam 😆
Good for him. Good for him for breathing in all those nasty dust mites. All kinds of germs to go along with it. So disgusting you guys are recycling that and then pawning it off to MORS Furniture and other shitless furniture places that will accept those old mattresses. Disgusting!