Member News Article
The need for innovative and sustainable design as a matter of urgency…
According to The Waste and Resources Action Programme (which operates as WRAP) an estimated 5.9 million end of life (EOL) mattresses in the UK were disposed of in 2014. 73% were sent to landfill and 11% were incinerated.
Over their short lifespan, mattresses provide the perfect eco-system for dust mites, their faeces, our dead skin cells and bodily fluids as well as bacteria and viruses.
Which is why Ammique has created a hygienic mattress-free sleep system that is guaranteed for a lifetime
“It is becoming increasingly clear that at some stage in the future it will be deemed to be entirely unac-ceptable, for either environmental or financial reasons, to simply send end of life (EOL) mattresses to land-fill as a method of disposal.”
