Half way through the year of economic recovery, conditions are getting better for putting money into new mattress recycling centers and related equipment. And, there are some signs that this may improve as the year progresses.

Time marches on and the mattresses people purchased back in the 1990's and before - are starting to wear out and people will be discarding them when they buy new mattresses. Those unwanted mattresses are the source stock for mattress recycling facilities and an absolute nightmare for landfills and governments.

Governments are seeking ways to create new jobs in the Green industries to help return them to healthier economies. Governments also are trying to address the mattress disposal problem and thus the wise Investor has two potentially positive government funding sources - job creation and saving landfill space via mattress recycling. For those starting up new mattress recycling facilities to help their local community - these two government cash flow streams should help defray startup costs.

In the United States, Canada and England; the grass roots version of the mattress recycling effort is beginning to grow and will continue to grow as long as landfill space is expensive and scarce as mattresses take up about 23 cubic feet of space per mattress and then cause landfill operation problems such as landfill machinery becoming entangled in coil spring wires and later on the mattresses surfacing to the top of the fill. This grass root effort expands as local governments begin to address the mattress disposal problem via landfill bans on mattresses and/or landfill tipping fees adequate to cover the real costs of mattress disposal in landfills. i.e. cost of landfill space, cost of mattress problems in landfills, extra handling costs associated with bulky items, etc.

While this form of legislation may initially seem harsh to the individual trying to get rid of their mattress, it in the same context creates a problem for the green industries to solve and that is providing individual mattress owners with a reasonably priced, legal, and convenient means to dispose of their unwanted mattresses. Is there an example where legislation actually worked? Yes, the current tire recycling industry was brought about by similar legislation.

The supply side of mattresses is continuous as people (us) demand a good night's rest and that is best supplied to us via a properly designed and right for us support level by a furniture we call a mattress and its supporting foundation and frame.

The demand side for mattress recycling seriously needs some creative people who can do for mattress recycling what George Washington Carver did for the peanut.

In a mattress and associated box springs the components in the most part are; steel, cotton, foam, felt, cardboard, wood, and ticking. When the market demand for these components are high - then mattress recycling can well be profitable. When the market demand for these components are high - it is an absolute waste to put them in a landfill to rot.

Government can go so far as legislation and enforcement will allow. That is a good thing when done in the people's best interest. To create new demand side uses for the component parts of the mattresses and box springs - well, where is George Washington Carver when you need him? Better yet, next time you see one of those get rich quick infocommercials coming on your plasma TV screen – turn off the TV and devote an equivalent amount of time to focusing on what George Washington Carver would create as a use for mattress components. If you do well - it is a given that you stand a better chance to make a lot of money than you have sending your hard earned cash to what many have found to be a highly hyped scam of some sort.

Go get ‘em, maybe a hundred years from now your name and George Washington Carver's will always be mentioned in the same breath and your grandchildren well cared for with their stipend.

Whatever you choose to do, please put in a kind word or two in support of the mattress recycling effort as if you are not - the person to whom you speak may well be the next George Washington Carver. Ideas are money.