Originally Posted by
miked
With the fee it still goes into the landfill. Unless the government agency incinerates the mattress and recycles any steel inside.
That seems to bear true in this area. There are two municipalities here on the island. They have different personalities and each has it's own way of doing things.
Municipality #1 : They have something called the " demo" pile. They charge ten cents a pound for all the things going into it. ie: box springs, furniture, big plastic things like the kiddie pools, asphalt shingles, and so on. It gets hauled off on a regular basis to be landfilled at an approved facility.
Municipality #2: They have the demo pile but it comes out of the tax base. There's no direct charge for disposal. It's pretty expensive to pay to have it hauled off and landfilled. The town fathers balked at the cost and just let the pile grow and grow. It became a health hazard to the people working at the transfer station. All of those mattresses got wet and moldy with black mold. When the wind was right it would blow all of the nasty in their direction. They finally did get it taken care of, but it was well over 80 grand to get the site cleaned up.
Both towns are pretty active in recycling .... each in their own way .... but neither has a recycling program for the box springs yet.
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