Kawartha Lakes, ON achieves success with a municipal mattress recycling pilot

Kawartha Lakes, ON Mattress Recycling Pilot

Complete

The city allowed residents to purchase curbside pickup tags or drop off mattresses at the Lindsay Ops landfill. Each recycling option was priced at $15 per item. Waste management teams extracted recyclable materials from mattresses that would have otherwise gone into landfills. The pilot resulted in 2,000 mattresses recycled through its first six months, saving $143,000 in disposal costs.

Waste Management Recycling Pilot / POC

Kawartha Lakes, ON

City in Ontario

Canada

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Kawartha Lakes continues successful mattress recycling program - City of Kawartha Lakes

Kawartha Lakes continues successful mattress recycling program

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Mattress ‘recycling’ program has diverted 2,000 from landfill | MyKawartha.com

Pilot program deemed a success; push on now to make it permanent.

Project Succeeded

City officials and residents advocated for the program's permanent status due to the high volume of use.