SEATTLE (Recycling Monster): The Mattress Recycling Council and the City of Porterville commemorated their one-year relationship. Up to 1,742 mattresses and box springs were gathered for recycling from the neighborhood during the program's first year of operation.

In an effort to limit the quantity of waste that ends up in landfills and to deter unlawful dumping of these materials, the collaboration established a website for residents to donate their unwanted box springs and mattresses. Over the course of the year, residents dropped off over 1,525 mattresses. 217 mattresses were also gathered following clean-ups of illegal dumping.

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All Tulare County residents can get rid of their old mattresses and box springs for free thanks to the initiative. Each visit, they are permitted to bring a maximum of five units. The collections are held at the City Corporation Yard, located at 555 N. Prospect, every third Saturday from 8:00 am to noon.

The Used Mattress Recovery and Recycling Act of California provides funding for the initiative. The initiative is also supported by the little fee that purchasers pay when they purchase a new mattress.

After the mattresses are gathered, their parts are disassembled and used to create new, practical goods.

According to Mayor Greg Meister, the initiative has cleaned up the streets and reduced the quantity of mattresses that are unlawfully discarded in local communities.