By nobugsonme on May 22, 2008 in avoiding bed bugs, bed bugs and mattresses, bed bugs and the media, bed bugs in the media, bed bugs new york, bed bugs spread, bedbugs, city of new york, city policies, consumer, furnishing bedbug-free homes, mattress recycling, mattresses, new york city, new york state, news | 0 Comments
Fox News NY visits a mattress recycling operation in Woodside to report on bed bugs in “refurbished” mattresses.
It is perfectly legal to spritz, recover, and resell used mattresses in New York. They have to be sanitized and labeled properly.
There is no way to “sanitize” used mattresses to reliably remove bed bugs. […]
By nobugsonme on May 22, 2008 in apartments, bad ideas, bed bug awareness, bed bug epidemic, bed bug garbage, bed bug-infested refuse, bed bugs, bed bugs and dumpster diving, bed bugs and landlords, bed bugs and mattresses, bed bugs and tenants, bed bugs in apartment buildings, bed bugs spread, bedbugs, dumpster diving, freegans, maine, mattress recycling, mattresses, portland, tossing things out, usa, used furniture, used mattresses | 0 Comments
Or so it would seem.
Earlier this week, there was the bed bug bill in the U.S. Congress.
And yesterday, an article in the Maine Switch (a website for those in Greater Portland) about the city’s yearly trash pick-up of bulky trash items. Not surprisingly, the day is a yearly impromptu festival for bargain […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 30, 2006 in bed bugs, bed bugs and mattresses, bedbugs, consumer, how to avoid bed bugs, mattresses, tools and weapons | 3 Comments
Are there any mattress companies who refuse to take away used mattresses? Most companies provide this “helpful service” (which helps spread bedbugs to otherwise uninfested brand new mattresses).
If there are any who don’t — and who use their own trucks (so we can be certain they’re not hauling old mattresses for some other […]
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