ok so I have read through a few different post on here and I know the idea of either stripping or burning them I get that and such but not what I want to know I have done that before and get more money from tvs than mattresses. my question is that I have looked on the web and found only a couple of mattress recyclers and I know some yards take them as shred at least in the past my yards do not here but the question I have for everyone is that I live in iowa in ames a college town and every year about 1200-1700 of them are tosses out and I sure would like to make money off these ya but its not want I had in mind as our town waste system shreds and burns them recycling them in there own way but I wanted to know if anyone close to me with in say 500 miles anyway that recycles them for the purpose of reusing the content. I would like to set up a city wide pick up locations for these in the future to reduce the cost the city has to take care of these and to really find a better way of recycling them even if it means I start a whole mattress shredding site but with bedbugs and such I have not found good ways to recycle these as resale is illegal.