Bedmaker Matza is boosting its green credentials with a new ‘clean ‘n’ green’ mattress comprising around 70% repurposed materials which would previously have been thrown away.
The company is producing an average 50 of these mattresses a week and selling into ex-catalogue and discount stores.
The move is part of a campaign to boost recycling and cut waste at the company's 60,000 sqft Yorkshire factory, which has also seen the creation of two new jobs.
MD Asif Ayub says: “We are already pretty good at recycling, but we wanted to audit our policies and further reduce our waste and reusing even more of our leftovers and offcuts seemed like the best place to start.”
The family-run company is on a mission to become even kinder to the environment with Asif’s brother, Mazhar, taking the lead on the project.
“We have employed two additional staff members to organise the recycling skips and keep the factory clean," says Asif. "We are also undertaking extensive staff training to make sure everybody plays their part in reducing waste. We have looked at our working practises, tidied up our processes and introduced even higher standards and levels of expectation for what is acceptable waste and what is not.”
At the same time, Matza has brought in more skips so rubbish can be sorted even further to allow more recycling. Asif adds: “We are delighted that between 80-90% of our waste is now going to recycling.”
