When the USS Enterprise returns home from its final deployment, one of the first items that will be stripped from the aircraft carrier will be the thousands of mattresses its sailors have worn out over the past few years.
But unlike other ships the Navy has decommissioned, these mattresses won’t be heading to a local landfill following the Dec. 1 inactivation.
The Navy will send the mattresses to a company in South Carolina as part of a pilot program to break the mattresses down and recycle their springs and foam for other uses. The Navy says paying Pamplico, S.C.-based Nine Lives Mattress Recycling to take the Enterprise’s mattresses off their hands is about $12,000 cheaper than paying for them to go to a local landfill.“It had to be cheaper, even if it’s greener, in order for us to want to do business,” said Gregory Jeanguenat, Naval Station Norfolk’s Integrated Solid Waste and Recycling Site manager.
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Source: The Washington Post
via Associated Press
When the USS Enterprise returns home from its final deployment, one of the first items that will be stripped from the aircraft carrier will be the thousands of mattresses its sailors have worn out over the past few years.