If you are familiar with Total Quality Management, then the following brain storming list will just feed the personal challenge for you to see if you can add meaningful society benefits to this list.

If you are unfamiliar with brain storming, all it is consists of a group of people using their thinking power to develop of list of items related to a specific task - in this case - identifying the benefits to society produced by actual mattress recycling. As people in the group come up with a new society benefit to recycling mattresses - that new item is added to the list in writing so that all can see it.

While brain storming can be a lot of fun, it also has great value when pursued through to an action plan where the group or others can take these thoughts and turn them into implementation tasks. How do you do that? When the brainstorming is over, you prioritize your list. Delete trivial items. Then you create your action plan by assigning a date or range of dates when the item identified in the brain storming (task) will be completed and who is responsible for getting it done. By actually following this action plan and checking to make sure tasks get accomplished and done on time – you can achieve mattress recycling in your community.

Give it a go. See what society benefits you can add to the below list, then turn your list into your action plan. The environment thanks you in advance.

• Save landfill space.
• No more landfill equipment problems from mattress springs.
• Create new jobs.
• Cleaner roadsides.
• No illegal mattress dumps.
• Recycled steel for construction.
• Know you did the right thing.
• Cotton for linen papers.
• Cotton for oil spill cleanup containment.
• Foam for many uses.
• Felt for mattress pads.
• Felt for carpet pads.
• Dimensional lumber
• Pelletized wood for fuel
• Chipped wood for mulch
• Less supply of old mattresses increasing value of good used mattresses
• Less supply of old mattresses creating higher demand for new mattresses
• Save cities tax money via elimination of their handling discarded mattresses with no fee
• Occupies one more empty warehouse or factory
• Can generate income for cities/trash haulers with curbside pickup fees using vouchers/tags
• Can be a source for rebuilt mattresses
• Ticking and foam for pet bedding
• Wood crates
• That which gets rewarded gets done
• Cardboard - corrugated - recycling
• More space in your house/garage
• No need to delay purchase of new as you can get rid of the old
• No need for storage rental
• Keeps mama happy
• Why foam only in prisons?
• Cleaner environment
• Stop wasting valuable resources
• etc