Aberdeenshire Council is working with Stella’s Voice to provide a mattress cleaning and reuse service via Inverurie and Ellon household recycling centres that will benefit vulnerable people across the region and beyond. In Scotland, a staggering 600,000 mattresses are disposed of each year with less than one in ten of those being collected for recycling or reuse. Many of these mattresses could be reused for a greater cause than incineration or landfill. Bagged, good, clean mattresses can now be taken to either Inverurie or Ellon household recycling centres where they will be quality checked. The council will deliver the mattresses to Stella’s Voice to be professionally cleaned and disinfected with new equipment funded through the Scottish Government’s Recycling Improvement Fund. Mattresses suitable for reuse must have... ▪ A blue fire label with the code BS7177 present, ▪ No rips or tears, ▪ No heavy staining, and ▪ A bag protecting them that can be collected for free from either Inverurie or Ellon household recycling centres or from Unit 7 on Harlaw Way in Inverurie. Stella’s Voice will either sell the mattresses through its reuse shop to generate funds or use them directly in its humanitarian efforts to support vulnerable people and those in most need. Pictured is the bag needed for mattress reuse on a mattress showing the blue fire label with the code BS7177. Learn more: https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/news/2025/jun/bag-it-up-your-old-mattress-can-make-a-difference