California ISPA-supported mattress recycling legislation has been introduced in California. Senate Bill 245 would create an industry-managed mattress recycling program that would be funded by a small fee collected from consumers at retail. ISPA is working with state Sen. Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana) on the bill, which is an industry-friendly alternative to legislation introduced by state Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Oakland). Hancock’s bill would require mattress manufacturers to set up and fully fund a system to collect and recycle used and illegally dumped mattresses. ISPA defeated similar legislation in California last year. ISPA believes the system proposed by Hancock would be costly and inefficient and would ignore the current infrastructure that exists for collecting used mattresses when new products are delivered to consumers. The state estimates that Hancock’s bill could cost the industry more than $100 million a year.
To support its efforts to enact Correa’s SB 245, ISPA has created a coalition called Californians 4 Mattress Recycling and asks that everyone in the industry who manufactures, operates, sells or has customers in California to join the group at www.ca4mattressrecycling.org.
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