The product I propose for the Discarded Dreams Mattress Recycling Competition is the process of development. In order to stop the amount of mattresses being dumped and sent to landfill we must first look at the problems with there disposal. The proposal seeks to solve this problem, putting in place a series of recycling methodologies.

The images submitted tell the story of the development of the process of recycling. This is represented in the stages of Local, Urban and National Collection which culminates in the formation of ‘Unit 113.08h’.

Local Collection: Mattresses are collected as a community on an individual basis and taken to existing recycling points.

Urban Collection: A service is put into the community in order to collect the mattresses and take them to an existing processing plant.

National Collection: A fully industrialised process that picks up mattresses and takes them to a highly developed processing plant.

Unit 113.08h is a trans-locatable urban mattress recycler. Mattresses are fed in one end of the machine and it is shredded into its base components, metal, wood, polythene, fabric, cardboard and paper, ready to be re-used again as a different product. The unit is moved to different locations in order to recycle the discarded and used mattresses delivered by the ‘national’ collection process.