The facility is called Park City Green, and Morales is surrounded by hundreds of mattresses that are brought in by trucks each year. He can deconstruct about 50 a day using little more than a utility blade knife. For more on this story, visit: Bridgeport recycling facility hungry for more mattresses | The Connecticut Mirror.

Community leaders gathered in Bridgeport Wednesday to mark the opening of the first nonprofit mattress recycling facility in the Northeast. For more on this story, visit: Recycling mattresses in Bridgeport | WTNH.com Connecticut.

That is the problem. Not just that, but, according to the Hartford City Council there is more to the problem: 350,000 – 450,000 mattresses disposed of in CT annually Minimum annual municipal disposal cost $1.2 million1 Taxpayers cover costs Illegal dumping is a problem Mattress disposal system is fragmented with towns hauling to in- and
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