Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake

• JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Your post has reminded me of this video that calculates how many mattresses you might own if every time a mattress company tried to get you to buy mattress, you did.

  It goes rather off the rails once the problem of where to put them becomes a concern. It’s worth a good laugh.

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  • T3CHT@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is another really good reason to be upset with the 10 yr warranty. It implies a longevity well beyond what this product can do.

    And the waste. My god the waste. Piles upon piles of unrecyclable petroleum derived foam. Ok, in relative terms to our modern lifestyle it fits right in, but that’s not good.

    And if it lasts half as long as they say, and they won’t touch it at the end of its life, what does that say?!

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    • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve done some time in waste handling, and about a decade ago I had the opportunity to work with a mattress recycling outfit. They had set up a disassembly line that would separate the various materials within a mattress, it was very interesting to see.

      My memory is failing me now, but they were sending about half the material to some other outfit that used in it production of some kind. So at least some recycling was happening through them.

      The mattress industry is wild even without managing the product’s end of life. So many of the same mattress get wrapped with slightly different fabric and stitch work and sold under a different name and whatnot. Personally when mine meets its end I’m going to try a tatami instead.

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