Jump In My (Green) Bed
by Cristina Foung
My favorite green product of the week: Keetsa eco-friendly mattresses
Keetsa mattresses are made with 100% recycled steel coils, scrap memory foam bits, and a variety of sustainable materials like bamboo fabrics and unbleached natural cotton. Keetsa offers six different types of mattresses.
Most people sleep on mattresses. Most people spend one-third of their lives in bed. But most people don’t know that conventional mattresses are covered in flame-retardants, petroleum-based pesticides, and other harsh chemicals. Well, not Keetsa mattresses. Not to mention, all those recycled materials I listed before? A lot of them can be recycled if you jump up and down a few too many times and need a new one.
One of my favorite things about the Keetsa mattress is that they can be compressed and rolled into box – that means that while 140 conventional mattresses can fit on one truck, 540 Keetsa mattresses can fit in the same space. The carbon footprint is much smaller from factory door to your bedroom door. (And the mattress boxes have wheels so you can take it home yourself.)
Last but not least, they’re comfortable. I got to take two different mattresses for “test drives” at the
Where can you find it?
The Keetsa showrooms are located in
Besides her green products column on Cleantech Blog, Cristina is a passionate advocate for green living at the Green Home Huddle at Huddler.com, which focuses on electric cars, energy efficient appliances, and other green products.
Labels: bedding, carbon emissions, cleantech, energy, green tech, Keetsa, recycled materials
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posted by Cristina Foung @ 7:31 AM
2 comments
2 Comments:
Green energy is definitely the best solution in most cases. Technology like solar energy, wind power, fuel cells, zaps electric vehicles, EV hybrids, etc have come so far recently. Green energy even costs way less than oil and gas in many cases.
Nice post. You might be interested to know that specialty sleep store, Rocky Mountain Mattress, has just launched a brand new line of green mattress products including a lot of nice natural latex pieces.
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