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Sleeping on waste: how to recycle a mattress in Australia so that it doesn’t end up in landfill (or on the street)
About 1.8m mattresses are thrown out each year in Australia, often seen dumped on the side of the road. Laid end to end, that would be enough to stretch from Darwin to the tip of Tasmania. Mattresses last between eight and 10 years, and are usually kept …