National recycling approach wise idea for our industry

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No one commented on my previous post but then low and behold Furniture Today posted today and I quote "even after government scientists showed that flame retardants in household furniture were not protecting Americans from fire in any meaningful way."

Gov't stay our of our business because over-reglation is killing us.

Report: Tobacco money helped shift focus of house fires to furniture
Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, May 8, 2012
CHICAGO — Tobacco industry money and influence, including support of a national fire marshals group, helped take the focus off cigarettes as an ignition source for house fires, the Chicago Tribune reports in the second article in its series on flame retardant chemicals.

Instead, the industry shifted attention to the fuel sources - including sofas, chairs and other home furnishings.

With the further support of chemical manufacturers, the efforts resulted in the addition of flame-retardant chemicals to furniture and successfully put off any mandate for "fire safe" cigarettes, the Tribune reported. It said the fire marshals group continued to support the use of the chemicals "even after government scientists showed that flame retardants in household furniture were not protecting Americans from fire in any meaningful way."

I'm just a little retailer, but maybe I missed the point. I have seen no help from the FR legislation. When the regulation was being phased in and I could sell FR or non-FR mattresses because of the manufactered date the customer always chose the cheaper non-FR set because of price.
Does any one have an actual number of lives saved since 2007. Don't tell me if it saved one life it was worth it either. Until the mattress covers, sheets, comforters, bumper pads and the like are FR then whats the point. Do they do the burn test in real life situations with actual bedding on the bed or a sterile environment of a mattress and foundation only. These days of very tight margins I would like to have seen education and labels on mattresses (like cigarettes) that said if you want to smoke in bed it may cause your death. Alcohol has killed many more than a smoldering mattress. Wake up people over regulation is killing small business. Why dont they regulate gas prices like electricity. Leave us alone and fix some of the real problems of the world. Im tired of paying shipping charges + fuel, steel, and even foam surcharges. If you think FR didnt add to the costs that we as retailers had to suck up cutting our margins then I think a reality check is in order.

Dave Perry is on the money. As a society, we can't just keep dumping mattresses into landfills forever. A sensible recycling program is a good idea.

Let's take the bull by the horns and do something before the government steps in and makes a total mess of things. Why would we ever want a subsidy or government solution to a free market problem? We can come up with much better solutions than government bureaucrats I'm sure.

The mattress industry should borrow a page from the tire industry. For every tire sold, a small amount is added to the price, $2.00 to $3.00 per tire. This helps manage the disposal of the tires when they have reached the end of their life.

A $5.00 to $7.50 disposal fee per mattress set would have the consumer pay for the disposal of the mattresses, not the retailer.

The biggest problem as I see it is the health risk of employees at the mattress retailers and the crippling expense of recycling them. As someone who runs a mattress chain I have tried for years to find a viable recycling option for used mattresses. All recycling companies I have been able to find wont take the foams because of the potential health risk to their employees and they require that all foams etc be stripped from the spring units. They only pay a few dollars for the spring systems and we still would end up sending most of it to the landfill, and let's face it, I don't want my employees exposed to the nastiness that is in these used beds. Beyond which it takes a good hour to strip down a mattress so we would lose money hand over fist just on labor expense, not to mention safety gear. I have a hard time picturing how this work without some kind of subsidy and/or government intervention with recyclers. Everyone says the whole thing should be recycled, but the recycling companies won't take most of the components.

Dave Perry at Furniture Today and ISPA are 100% right on this issue of mattress recycling. State lelgislation driven by the Product Stewardship movement places the entire burden of used sleep products on local retailers and local mattress factories in numerous different muncipal, county and 50 state jurisdictions. Many of these retailers and manufacturers survive with profit margins of as little a 3% or 5% even. These local retailers / mattress factories will be forced to create real estate (storage areas) with possible health risks and overhead enormous costs...yes, that will have to be passed on to consumer (if they can.) A national recycling program based on helping non-profits, and profitable recycling business formulae that tear apart mattresses uniformally and re-uses steel, foams, quilting fibers, etc., and PREVENT wild-cat refurbished (unhealthy) mattresses from sneaking back into the marketplace, is the only solution. Dave Perry is right. Just as we needed a national FR solution to ultimately deal with fire safety standards, so too, we need an industry directed pro-active national recycling program that ultimately benefits all: industry, manufacturers, retailers and yes, consumers! We need to stand behind ISPA in seeking a unified, practical, responsible and workable solution to used mattresses....tearing them apart and re-using the component mateirals in a profitable and valuable way!
Dale T. Read, President of the Specialty Sleep Association.

I agree with the notion that the mattress industry needs to address the recycling of their product. I also agree that a national approach works best. But a national approach is different than national legislation. Assuming anything can get done in Washington in a reasonable amount of time, what is the guarentee that it will repsrent the best interests of all stakeholders and not just ISPA? Afterall, it is the municipalities that are currently footing the bill to deal with mattresses at the end of their life. That is why state state legislation has been proposed. I suggest the mattress industry follow the lead of the paint industry. Work with the Product Stewardship Institute to engage all stakeholders and develop a legislative model they can all agree to support. Then support that legislation in each state capital. A national approach reflecting the input of all stakeholders but passed at the state level is the best option.