Hilton has begun a mattress recycling program, across all its US hotel chains, that it says will recycle about 85 percent of its mattresses and box springs.
The hotel chain has purchased more than 50,000 mattresses in the past two years in the US alone. DH Hospitality, a provider of recycling, installation, liquidation, transportation and warehousing services, will install and remove mattresses for Hilton’s properties, ensuring that hotel operations are not affected by the replacement program. The recycling firm will repurpose the mattresses, box springs and their component parts into items including tools, construction materials, flooring, oil filters and carpet padding.
Additionally, through LightStay, the company’s proprietary sustainability management system, hotels will be able to report and track the progress of their mattress donation and provide additional items during room renovations to Good360, a program that helps identify local nonprofits in need of cased goods.
The mattress recycling news follows an announcement in December last year, in which the Hilton Concord hotel in the San Francisco Bay area announced it was to use “pillow renovation” as part of a raft of environmental upgrades. The hotel uses the Pillow Vac system to sterilize and renovate most of its pillows ready for reuse, reducing the number of discarded pillows.
Source: Environmental Leader