{"id":227,"date":"2010-10-05T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T22:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2010-10-05T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T22:22:11","slug":"what-do-we-do-with-old-mattresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2010\/10\/05\/what-do-we-do-with-old-mattresses\/","title":{"rendered":"What do we do with old mattresses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even for those of us who really try to reduce waste in our lives, stuff comes along from time to time that is just hard to find a place to recycle.\u00a0 What do you do with old mattresses?\u00a0 It&#8217;s not too often that most people have to deal with this.<\/p>\n<p>But OSU&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/uhds\/\" target=\"_blank\">University Housing &amp; Dining Services<\/a> has a semi-regular stream of used mattresses to deal with.\u00a0 What do they do?\u00a0 They&#8217;ve found a couple of outlets.\u00a0 One is the <a style=\"text-decoration: underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.wa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington State Department of Corrections<\/a> with their new mattress recycling program.\u00a0 Another, suggested by <a href=\"http:\/\/recycle.oregonstate.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">OSU Campus Recycling<\/a>, is a Portland company: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecrrecycling.com\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Environmentally Conscious Recycling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to know there are multiple outlets for odds and ends.\u00a0 Another great resource for the Corvallis community is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainablecorvallis.org\/Two-pageReUseDirectory11x17--foronli.pdf?attredirects=0\" target=\"_blank\">The ReUse Directory<\/a>.\u00a0 Check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even for those of us who really try to reduce waste in our lives, stuff comes along from time to time that is just hard to find a place to recycle.\u00a0 What do you do with old mattresses?\u00a0 It&#8217;s not too often that most people have to deal with this. But OSU&#8217;s University Housing &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-waste-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}