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I just tumbled a mattress down the stairs


Sofa King Kule

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37 minutes ago, Sofa King Kule said:

And what's done with stuff that has been so crunched together as to be almost inseparable, such as in an industrial grade trash compactor?

But, that's beside the point.  We're still talking about this open top dumpster.

It might be fast, easy and perhaps even economical to try sorting and recycling from there, but only if the people using it are playing by the rules.

We have six smaller dumpsters to hold the regular household trash and food waste.  That stuff doesn't belong in the bulk dumpster, but, there it is... Just because we have some tenants too lazy to walk the extra few yards to a small dumpster.  

So, when a 25 inch crt is shattered in the front and then bags of rancid gravy and dirty Depends fill the resulting cavity, who is going to pick the flyback transformer out of that thing and say, "Here's a valuable recycling item!" ?

 

No clue.

I'm telling you how proper waste management is supposed to operate.

They know people aren't going to follow the rules, and have to grab the bags of household garbage out of those rollbacks.

But those rollbacks are going to the same place as the trash that is collected in the garbage trucks that dump the small containers.

The household shit is simply loaded into bigger trucks for hauling to the landfill.

The other stuff has to be sorted out. There are plenty of landfills that don't allow bulk glass, cardboard, batteries, etc.

That stuff has to be disposed of another way, such as recycling.

This is pretty S.O.P. with any waste management company.

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10 hours ago, scoobdog said:

Obviously.  Why else wouldn't he have the big burly mattress dudes take his old mattress?

You really wanna know?

It was not a coil mattress.  All stuffing.

Like a pillow, stuffed mattresses fall flat over time.  Unlike a pillow, you can't restore it by putting it in the washer.  It won't fit there.

They have to be periodically replaced.

You can't sleep on a flattened mattress when you have two herniated disks.

As for disposal, the furniture guys here won't carry out the old one.  That's why the new one was $275 instead of $350.  Kind of like the difference between flying coach and flying first class.

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2 minutes ago, Sofa King Kule said:

You really wanna know?

It was not a coil mattress.  All stuffing.

Like a pillow, stuffed mattresses fall flat over time.  Unlike a pillow, you can't restore it by putting it in the washer.  It won't fit there.

They have to be periodically replaced.

You can't sleep on a flattened mattress when you have two herniated disks.

Why do you have two herniated disks? 🤶

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