Guaranteeing 100% of Mattresses Received Avoid Landfill
Only 24% of mattresses disposed of in 2020 were sent for recycling
THAT’S OVER 4.8 MILLION MATTRESSES OF THE 6.4 MILLION MATTRESSES DISPOSED OF STILL GOING TO LANDFILL
“The unfortunate fact is” Whilst ever it is cheaper to send an item to landfill (nearly £9 million cheaper in 2020 alone) an ethical disposal route will not be a favoured choice for an End-of-Life Mattress
UNTIL NOW!
Our Circular Economy solution is the ONLY possible way to pro-actively prevent what would inevitably be a huge hike in the traditional mattress recycling gate fee.
What have we prevented from entering landfill to date?
These are our year to date figures.
We are committed to ensuring 100% of the Mattresses we receive avoid landfill. We are proud to state that to date we recycled 96% of the materials that we received.
How Do We Do It?
Bye Bye Bed Ltd
Our parent company Bye Bye Bed Ltd was founded in September 2019, offering an ethical end destination for post-consumer, end-of-life (EoL) mattresses.
The 24-hour 7 day per week operation focuses on the manual deconstruction of each and every mattress. To separate each and every component and then separate again between good and bad materials.
The manual nature of our operation simply means that we increase labour to cope with the increasing demand.
Our ethos puts Corporate Social Responsibility and environmental benefits above all.
Beyond addressing our own CSR, we enable manufacturers and hospitality enterprises to address their extended producer responsibilities and also boost their Social Value Quality Mark (SVQM) ratings via our ecological and ethical recycling.
How will our Circular & Sustainable Solution change these startling numbers?
Why are end-of-life (EoL) mattresses a worldwide problematic waste stream?
Why is it unlikely that we will not meet the 2028 target of 75% diversion from landfill?
Why are 76% of EoL mattresses still going to landfill?
Why, out of the 24% of mattresses sent for recyclng, are only 14% of materials recovered (‘real rate’)
Why are mattress (and furniture) fly-tipping incidents increasing
Asking ourselves the 5 whys over and over again gives us the confidence that our closed-loop circular solution not only reduces the emission, power and resource in both the transportation and re-processing of these components but gives us the only hope of reducing the traditional mattress recycling gate fee to a price that is equal to or less than it is to send a mattress to landfill.
And only at this point will an ethical mattress recycling route be favoured over landfill
