Epping landfill chief takes his lumps over mattresses
October 10, 2008
Town officials have found themselves mired in a mattress mess.
Mountains of mattresses collected at the town landfill were supposed to be hauled off to a private recycling company but were buried instead. Meanwhile, residents have been charged $10 per mattress and $10 per box spring to cover the town’s cost of having them taken away to a recycling center.
As many as 200 mattresses may have been left at the landfill, but not all were buried.
Jim Freeman, the town’s solid waste supervisor, decided to have the mattresses buried because there is plenty of room at the landfill and he wanted to save the town from having to pay to recycle the mattresses.
Freeman may have had good intentions, but his decision didn’t sit well with some town officials and residents.
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