San Diego’s Environmental Providers Division will Wednesday unveil its “Bye Bye Mattress” disposal program on the Miramar Landfill.
The brand new program, at the side of the Mattress Recycling Council, permits San Diegans to drop off mattresses and field springs on the new assortment website, positioned on the east facet of the doorway of the landfill on Convoy Avenue.
“We’re thrilled to announce our participation in MRC’s Bye Bye Mattress program,” mentioned Matthew Cleary, assistant director of the town’s Environmental Providers Division. “By dropping off mattresses and field springs at our new assortment website, San Diegans are serving to cut back waste, as the town collects these cumbersome gadgets to be recycled as an alternative of them ending up within the landfill, or worse, on the facet of the street.”
Mattress assortment hours are 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday via Friday with the location closed on Saturdays and Sundays. Mattresses and field springs should not be severely broken, moist, twisted, frozen, dirty, or infested with bedbugs, a metropolis assertion reads.
–Metropolis Information Service
