Purchasing a new mattress can lead to a better night’s sleep and ease one’s recurring back and neck pain. But what to do with your old, used and unneeded mattress is its own type of pain in the ...

It may sound odd, silly even, to pay so much to dispose of a run-of-the-mill household item. But the economics of mattress recycling illustrate why it can be difficult — and costly — to be an ...

In the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, residents buy about 350,000 new mattresses each year, according to the International Sleep Products Association. Of the old ones they replace, about half are ...