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(EstateNewsWire.com, November 30, 2012 ) San Francisco, CA -- A new program initiated by the United States Navy is designed to limit the number of mattresses the Navy discards, both as a way to repurpose the material and ease the amount of trash sent to local landfills.
The USS Enterprise returned from its final deployment prior to its Dec. 1 decommissioning, and is having thousands of mattresses stripped from the aircraft carrier sent to a company is South Carolina. They will break down the bedding and recycle all usable parts, such as springs, frames, and foam.
As a bonus, the Navy is saving $12,000 by sending the mattresses to Nine Lives Mattress Recycling, based in Pamlico, S.C., as opposed what it would cost to have the mattresses disposed of at a local landfill.
Naval Station Norfolk's Integrated Solid Waste and Recycling Site Manager Gregory Jeanguenat said of the program, "It had to be cheaper, even if it's greener, in order for us to want to do business."
The Enterprise becomes the third Navy ship to take part in the pilot recycling program. It is based in similar programs initiated by the U.S. Army. In the past few weeks, both the USS Mesa Verde, and the USS Abraham Lincoln, another aircraft carrier, had mattresses removed for disposal recently.
So far, more than 13,000 mattresses are being sent to Nine Lives Mattress Recycling. That equates to approximately 100,000 cubic feet of landfill space being saved.
"It's the largest chunk of mattress recycling in the U.S. military," Jeanguenat said of the program. "It's my pride and joy. I'm absolutely excited that this happened."
Navy officials hopes to expand the recycling to other ships, along with barracks and Navy hotels in the Norfolk, Va., area, which is home to the world's largest naval base.
“This is a huge amount of product. And the largest mass amount of stuff to be moved in one fell swoop rather than worrying about white paper or plastic or something individual,” Jeanguenat said. "This is one of the greatest projects that will affect our solid waste program and recycling program – ever.”
Navy mattresses usually last for about eight years before they have to be replaced, said Tom Kreidel, a spokesman for Naval Facilities Engineering Command Mid-Atlantic. In an average year, the Navy buys approximately 25,000 mattresses for all of its facilities.
"There's no reason a mattress should go to a landfill,” said Ralph Began, the owner of Nine Lives Mattress Recycling. “They're not really giving out permits for new landfills that easily, so it seems like everybody would see the importance of removing anything from a landfill that can be reused.”
According to Bergen, the mattresses foam will be repurposed as foam for carpet pads while the springs will be melted down for scrap metal.
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