18.2 Million Mattresses Disposed a Year, and Most of Them Get Buried

Earth911
Jun 1, 2026, 7:00 am235 ptsTop
Pull the sheets back from the numbers and the American mattress starts to look less like a product and more like a disposal problem. The United States throws out an estimated 18.2 million mattresses a year — roughly 50,000 every day — and only about 19% of them are recycled. The rest, more than four out of…

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