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Alex Erzen, LinkUp Mattress Project Manager
Puget Sound
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Mattress Recycling Alex Erzen, LinkUp Mattress Project Manager - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Mattress Recycling Alex Erzen, LinkUp Mattress Project Manager - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
WSRA WRED 3/24/16 Mattress Recycling Alex Erzen, LinkUp Mattress Project Manager Puget Sound Sp Spri ring ng Back ck / NW Furniture Bank in Tacoma Arl rlin ingt gton on Rec ecycle cle War arehouse ehouse in Snohomish Co.
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Out of business
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rrec ection ional al Industr ndustries ies - WA Dept. of Corrections – 3 sites: 2014
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System ems, s, Inc nc. in Tukwila: 2014
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A Plu lus Removal & Recycling in Auburn: 2015
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Producer Responsibility programs
“Bye Bye Mattress” / Mattress Recycling Council (MRC) statewide stewardship programs in
- Conn
nnecticut ecticut (May 2015) $9 each
- Cali
lifornia
- rnia (Dec. 2015) $10
- Rhode
de Island land (July 2016) $11 Eco-Mobilier (eco-furniture) nationwide program in Fra ranc nce (2013) ~$3-6 each
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Connecticut’s law
- 2010 $45 disposal fee on each
- 2010-11: PSI dialog with gov & industry
- 2012 stewardship bill fails (in RI & CA too)
- 2013 laws pass (CT in May, RI in July, & CA in
Sept.)
- May 2015 MRC / Bye Bye Mattress start
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California’s law
- Illegal dumping task force
- Failed 2012, passed 2013, Bye Bye / MRC start
- Dec. 2015
- Supported by
– CA Chamber of Commerce – California Retail Association – Republic, Waste Management, Recology – Recycling orgs & cities and counties
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Metro Vancouver, BC: ban and recycle 1/1/11
- 125,000 processed Year 1 (3 for-profit processors)
- saved 100,000 cubic meters (2-3 mo worth) of
landfill space
- Or ~74,000 metric tons
- r 7% of MetroVan’s
2011 garbage
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National
- March 2012: ISPA (mattress industry trade
association) intends to seek national mattress recycling legislation
- Resolution supporting EPR for mattresses
from US Conference of Mayors, June 2012
– 7 WA Mayors: Auburn, Everett, Mukilteo, Redmond, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma
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King County LinkUp
Facilitate development of
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lection and d pro roces cessing sing infras frastruc tructu ture re that supplies
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d mark rkets ts for recyclable materials: mattresses, textiles, carpet, asphalt shingles, compost
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King County LinkUp
- Mattress Recycling Summits 2011 & 2014
- 2012 Take it Back Network
- 2015 Request for Information (RFI)
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Li Link nkUp Up Mat attress tress Rec ecycl cling ing Su Summit mmit 2011
- “Mattress recycling is more expensive than
- disposal. Until there is a higher mattress
disposal fee at transfer stations, mattresses will continue to be taken there.”
- “Mattress recycling needs to
be more accessible, convenient and affordable: if people can’t get it to a recycler, they will look to dump it.”
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Li Link nkUp Mat attre ress ss Rec ecycling cling Su Summi mmit t 2011
- “My customers wouldn’t have a problem paying a
small fee, 90% want their mattress to be recycled
- r reused by someone who needs it; customers are
asking about where mattresses go…”
- “Why are states hesitant to legislate this issue and
ban mattress disposal? The ban was an incentive to get our act together in BC. We had to learn fast and now it’s a system that works. The ban increased recyclers [from 1 to 3] in the area.”
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- “Transfer stations must increase the disposal
fee for mattresses.”
- “Government must take action.”
- “If we [retailers] want to see something happen
in this state, we need to get together and ask if we’re okay with a fee going on every mattress we sell. Or are we okay with a disposal ban?”
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Public transfer stations
- City of Tacoma landfill since 2014 – with
Spring Back
- Pilot: Seattle Public Utilities south transfer
station since late 2015
- Pilot: King County Bow Lake transfer station
upcoming in 2016
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Mattresses
- 3000 tons disposed =
~100–150,000 mattresses / year
- 9 lbs cotton
- 25 lbs steel
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Spring Back Tacoma
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Republic Black River Renton
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Upcoming
- Canada 2017 target – EPR for furniture,
textiles, carpet
- UPSTREAM furniture EPR project – model
policy development
– Chemical manufacturers of flame retardant treated foam and furniture manufacturers
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King Street Center 201 South Jackson Street, Suite 701 Seattle, WA 98104 www.kingcounty.gov/solidwaste