By nobugsonme on May 23, 2008 in bed bug bites, bed bugs, bedbugs, eliminate bed bugs, mattress encasements, mattress recycling, mattresses, new york and bed bugs, new york city, nycha, public housing | 5 Comments
The Sweet Dreams Project seems like a nice idea: the Daily News reports that an Astoria businessman, Marcos Maldonado, is raising money to donate new mattresses to kids in Queens, to replace those “infected” with bed bugs:
A bedbug epidemic in her Astoria apartment building forced Ellie Maldonado, 42, to discard her mattress […]
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 Nov 19, 2007 in Today, bed bug feces, bed bugs in the media, mattress recycling, photos of bed bug feces, photos of blood stains, photos of signs of bed bugs | 3 Comments
There is a segment planned for NBC’s Today Show tomorrow about bed bugs.
I am sure it is a coincidence that I criticized Meredith Viera’s recent recommendation on the Today show that viewers recycle used mattresses via Craigslist and Freecycle. But I am glad they’re doing it, all the same.
Update 11/20:
University of California at Berkeley […]
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