Unique recycling system will process 45,000 discarded mattresses from Costa Blanca town in Spain
A ten-year-old accumulation of old bed mattresses is removed from the Santa Pola eco-park and transported to Europe’s only factory dedicated to recycling mattresses.
More than 45,000 mattresses are taken away by the ecoAqua company.
Trucks transfer the mattresses to the recycling plant located 100 kilometers away in Ontinyent in the province of Valencia.
The factory will recycle 100% of the mattresses using pressurized water.
Francisco Larrey, director of ecoAgua, said: “The Valencian Community is the first in Europe to use a complete mattress recycling system.
“We recycle one mattress per minute and manage to recover all the parts and put them back on the market. It is a sustainable action and we also avoid possible fires in traditional storage and recycling,” he added.
Mayor of Santa Pola, Loreto Serrano, said: “This is a very important day for Santa Pola because we are solving a problem that has existed for many years and that was collapsing and the eco-park was collapsing. .”
“Santa Pola is the first city in the region to use this ecological recycling system”.
ecoAqua will spend approximately eight months recycling all Santa Pola mattresses.
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