stackyFACTSWhen a massive hotel chain renovates, they don't just drag a thousand mattresses to the dump. Specialized recyclers rip the fabric off strictly to harvest the dense steel springs inside. The raw scrap metal weight of an entire hotel's worth of mattresses represents a massive, highly sought-after salvage payday.
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