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Originally Posted by acket
SO please come up with a possible repurposing or likely taker for an old (and I mean old) mattress.
It could not be used for its original purpose (human slumber) for health, moral and ethical reasons, so help me, skittles and a multitude of jumblers on this one.
On principal I would not give these to some stingy landlord whio intended inflicting them on poor unfortunates in the flat rental land.
Ideas please?
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Hi acket,
Disposing of old, non-reusable mattresses can be problematic as many recycling centres don't accept them.
As I stated on a thread a while back, some firms in America and Belgium take old mattresses, strip them down, and recycle every single part of them, but I haven't been able to locate similar companies in Ireland so far. Maybe that's why so many mattresses end up in landfill and ditches around the country.
Mattress-encumbered folk could always follow the example of the gentleman in the article below who re-uses practically every part of his old mattresses. Please see here:
http://www.users.on.net/~arachne/mattress.html
Regards
Chris P
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