You’ve executed it. You’ve bitten the bullet and determined to purchase your self a brand-new mattress. You’ve even determined to purchase an moral and sustainable mattress, as you’ve realized the hurt typical mattresses set off by means of emitting VOCs and poisonous flame retardant chemical substances, alongside PVC or vinyl covers which can damage rising reproductive strategies and poisonous polyurethane foam.

Nonetheless what the hell do you do collectively alongside together with your earlier mattress?

The market is overflowing with lower-quality merchandise and 100-day sleep ensures, resulting in of us altering their mattresses comparatively additional ceaselessly than they used to. That is making a mountain of waste, and an environmental catastrophe. Over 5 million mattresses find yourself in landfill yearly all through the UK, whereas the US throws away 18.2 million mattresses a 12 months.

Fortuitously Naturalmat, the first B Corp licensed mattress and mattress company all through the UKhas a plan.

The Mattress for Life Initiative

Half one comes from a dedication to spherical design and a closed-loop service from the start. Naturalmat creates every mattress to order of their Devon workshop, eliminating waste on the supply, with a lifespan of spherical a decade. Nonetheless their simple design methodology furthermore means each one amongst their mattresses is also damaged down into its specific particular person side supplies, every of which could be every composted, reused or recycled moderately than being thrown away.

And while you do ought to get a mannequin new mattress, there are completely completely different selections available on the market too:

Refurbish

Naturalmat will buy your mattress out of your particular person home and produce it as soon as extra to their Devon workshop. There, a gifted group will take your mattress aside, alternate any compressed or broken fibres and put a model new cowl on it. It’ll be good as new for spherical half the value of a mannequin new mattress.

Recycle

For individuals who happen to would favor to not refurbish your mattress, Naturalmat can recycle it for you thru affiliate organisation TFR. With over 10 years of expertise in mattress recycling, they make certain that nothing ends in landfill, and likewise you’ll obtain a ten% low worth inside the course of your subsequent buy.

Donate

In case your mattress is in an appropriate state of affairs Naturalmat will take it as soon as extra and ship it to their companions in Liverpool who’ve invented the world’s first mattress washer, Mattilda. It’ll be completely cleaned after which donated by means of their group of charity companions.

Naturalmat at present solely settle for mattresses from their mattress room assortment, nonetheless are engaged on a recycling resolution for nursery mattresses. Contained in the meantime, they’ve furthermore put collectively an end-of-life information that may allow you to repurpose the fillings inside earlier nursery mattreses.

Nonetheless what in case your earlier mattress isn’t from Naturalmat? Correctly, they’ve one issue for you too.

Mattress Recycling

When ordering a Naturalmat, you possibly can add on mattress recycling at checkout. When delivering your new mattress, Naturalmat will take your earlier one away, alongside the reusable duffel bag (moderately than plastic) which your mattress is delivered in. Through their companions, it is going to then furthermore every be recycled, or if it’s in good state of affairs will possibly be cleaned and donated to charity.

They settle for any model of matress; even taking away my deeply pathetic and truly earlier mattress after I lastly upgraded to Naturalmat myself final 12 months! No unhappy journeys to the skip, no making an attempt to squeeze a mattress into your automobile or trying to find any particular person to assemble it. Merely let Naturalmat take over, and protect these parts out of landfill.

Additional methods to avoid shedding waste

Naturalmat solely use hard-wearing pure fibre providesnonetheless nonetheless find yourself with offcuts from upholstering beds, bases and headboards. As a substitute of energy-internsive recycling, they teamed up with The Haines Assortment to discover a model new dwelling for these provides. The Haines Assortment has a fastidiously curated assortment of premium offcut provides from the textile enterprise which they provide to clients at a rigorously decreased worth, saving them from landfill.

In addition to they’ve a collaboration with the Cotton Lives On Recycling Programmeensuing inside the event of a mannequin new and distinctive mattress that’s crammed (and lined) solely with recycled cotton comprised of earlier denims, t-shirts and completely completely different cotton units. These mattresses are then donated to charities working to alleviate mattress poverty, together with Single Homeless Mission, Refuweegee and Shelter, who present them to of us in want. You could possibly learn the way these recycled cotton mattresses are handcrafted beneath.

Utterly completely different charities that Naturalmat donate mattresses to incorporate:

• Exeter Neighborhood Initiativesdonating new mattresses to inclined households in Devon-based communities.
• Little Miracles, provides offcuts are donated to this charity on a mission to assist inclined adults entry bigger choices by means of instructing & progress workshops.
• The Lullaby Notion, supporting households by means of elevating consciousness of sudden toddler lack of life syndrome (SIDS), offering safer sleep suggestion, and providing emotional assist to bereaved households. Since their formation in 1971 they’ve carried out a key place all through the low price of SIDS by over 80%, and have helped save the lives of over 20,000 infants. Through their collaboration Naturalmat donate Coco Mat mattresses to London-based child financial institution Little Village; supporting households with infants and youthful kids residing in poverty all by the capital – offering garments, books, toys and nursery furnishings to over 7000 kids a 12 months.

Waste from the mattress enterprise is at present an infinite drawback, nonetheless Naturalmat current that it doesn’t must be. When mattresses are designed appropriately from the outset we’ll lead additional healthful lives with a happier planet. And a dedication to circularity means you possibly can even protect earlier, doubtlessly poisonous mattresses out of landfill too.

For individuals who happen to ever wanted additional causes to make the mattress swap to Naturalmat, this has obtained to be extreme of the itemizing. I completely love my Naturalmat mattress, I’ve had it for six months and have seen the very clear distinction in my high quality of sleep. Add their dedication to recycling and circularity to the combo, which is each good for the planet and makes our lives considerably bit simpler, and there’s no particular person else I’d take into consideration for my mattress wants in future!