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Difficult to Manage Wastes:Mattresses
Kate Hagemann , Product Stewardship Institute
Advancing Recycling & Organics Management:A Sustainable Future
March 29, 2010
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Who is the Product Stewardship Institute?
February 25, 2011
Non-profit founded in 2000 Membership 46 States 200+ Local governments 70+ Corporate,
Organizational, Academic & Non-U.S. Government Partners
Board of Directors: 7 states, 4 local agencies
• Multi-stakeholder product stewardship network
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State “Extended Producer Responsibility” Laws
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State Legislative MomentumEPR Laws & EPR 2010 Legislation
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60+ EPR laws in 32 states(including laws on carpet, cell phones and
agricultural pesticide containers)
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914 23*
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Trend: Applying EPR to More Products
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•Packaging & Printed
Material
•Phone books
•Pharmaceuticals
•Plastic Bags
February 25, 2011
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…And More Products
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• Carpet• Fluorescent lamps• Electronics• Paint• Thermostats•Batteries•Gas cylinders (Pilot program in WI)
•Medical sharps•Radioactive Devices
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Legislation introduced in 2011
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….and mattresses
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Photo Courtesy of King County Solid Waste Division - Seattle, Washington
•Motivated to reduce an estimated $400,000 annual cost to dispose of residential mattresses, the City of Hartford has taken the lead on developing a product stewardship solution that will increase mattress recycling and decrease costs to the City.
•has turned this into a national Mattress Stewardship Initiative that will likely result in a legislative solution.
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The problem
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Photo Courtesy of King County Solid Waste Division - Seattle, Washington
• don’t compact well
•springs pop out & jam machinery
•Conigliaro Industries, a recycler, estimated that the
“opportunity cost” a landfill incurs by accepting mattresses =
$15 a mattress. (it would be more profitable for the landfill to
pay someone else up to $15 to dispose of each mattress.)
• mattress industry upset too many used beds end up in the
hands of renovators who resell them as new
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Recycling
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• small percentage are dismantled and recycled annually
• more than a dozen mattress recycling facilities in North America.
•For a list, check www.sleepproducts.org
• majority are run by nonprofits
• financial viability often depends on collecting a per-piece tip fee.
• approx $6 to $15 per unit.
• some components have value (steel springs, polyurethane foam) but there is still a net
cost to collect and recycle them.
•The Institutional Recycling Network (IRN) works universities across the country to facilitate
the reuse and recycling of mattresses.
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PSI has developed a
briefing document that
will prepare participants
for a
National Mattress Stewar
dship Meeting
.
What can be done?
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National Mattress Stewardship Meeting
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Monday, April 11, 20118:30 am – 5:00 pm
Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority Trash Museum
211 Murphy RoadHartford, CT
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Proposed Project Goals
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1. Develop a long-term financing system to manage mattresses and box springs in a manner that alleviates the financial burden faced by governments.
Options:
Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation
Advanced Recycling Fee
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Registration
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www.productstewardship.us/mattresses
To register visit:
* dial-in participation also available
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Recent developments at the local level:
• Seattle, Washington (October 2010)First mandatory opt-out law for phone books; also requires companies to pay for phone book recycling
• San Francisco, California (December 2010)Sought to create a producer-run take-back program for unwanted medicines**Resulted in negotiated agreement to have drug take-back pilot with industry funding
Another Possibility: Local Level EPR Ordinances
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More Information
Kate HagemannAssociate of Policy & [email protected]
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