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Chaffee County weighs mattress recycling, cardboard drop-off and transfer-station options amid cost gap
Summary
County staff proposed short- and medium-term waste-diversion options — including a mattress-recycling pilot at roughly $43 per unit and a compacting cardboard drop-off — and warned federal funding delays and the government shutdown could delay a larger transfer-station project.
County staff laid out a menu of waste-diversion pilots and a budgetary gap tied to mattress recycling during Thursday’s meeting.
Beth and the county environmental/waste staff (Speaker 2) described discussions with Springbak, a Denver-based mattress recycler, under which recyclers would swap loaded trailers. Preliminary cost estimates for hauling and trailer expenses put recycling at about $43 per mattress, compared with the county’s current $10 landfill collection fee. Staff said the landfill receives roughly 2,200 mattresses a year; at current fees…
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