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recycling mattresses

Waste. Recycling, a new spring for mattresses , 20 Minutes, 12/01/11, 3:46 p.m.
Mickael Bosredon

The first recycling plant mattresses in France has just come into being in Paris region. She anticipates a legislative change that will force a recycle mattresses early 2012 ...

It has Limay, Yvelines, that mattresses are finally offer a second life. In recent weeks, a mattress recycling plant has set out in a huge hangar at the port area of the city, bordering the Seine. A first in Europe this scale.
Every day, six employees take delivery of 300 to 400 mattresses, then they cut, sort, store, prior to return the material to various courses, such as automotive, carpet Soil, biomass ...

"springs, wooden frame, foam, felt, latex ... 95% of materials are reusable" ensures Franck Berrebi, Director General of Recyc Mattress Europe, company mounted a joint venture (consortium) with a Canadian company of the same name. "We have approximated it to bring us his expertise on the subject, and it entered into our capital was 30%," says Jeremy Settbon, president of Recyc Mattress Europe.

partnerships with hotel chains and bedding
The young company has already spent a partnership with the company's bed, some communities and hotel chains. "We are also in contact with Center Parcs, Conforama, which receives 125,000 a year old parts in Ile-de-France, and Ikea," says Jeremy Settbon. "But the launch of the company, we went-we recover the same mattress at the foot of the buildings." The individual may also bring your mattress directly Mill. But it will cost € 9.40 piece. scales down to 6 € room for large volumes.
The rate of the plant should ramp up in coming months to reach its cruising speed of 1,500 pieces per day, or 8,000 to 10,000 tons per year, early next year.
That is to say when applying a new decree that will require a recycle mattresses. So far, they end their lives in a landfill (TRC).

Some 5 million would mattresses and buried each year.

Recyc Mattress Europe also wants to open more factories in France, first in the East and in Northern France. "We need one approaches the deposits, to limit transport by road, Franck Berrebi explains. Ultimately, our ambition is to take 25 to 30% of the market. "