For the first time mattresses, every landfill's bane, are now being diverted for recycling at SWAMP.

Instead of being buried, the tangle of stuffing, metal and wood will be shipped to Winnipeg to be stripped and its core components reused.

"It's an excellent way of reusing mattresses," SWAMP Manager Brent Kletke explains, adding they can be a nightmare in a landfill.

"They get in our equipment, they don't compact properly," Kletke notes, adding it can take hours to untangle a mattress from a compactor wheel.

In just the first few weeks, he notes they've already collected close to 100 mattresses.

Mattresses will no longer be accepted in the SWAMP landfill

"As mattresses wear out they have to go somewhere," he says. "We're providing a very needed service for local residents."

While there's no charge at this time, Kletke notes it won't be free forever.

"Eventually we're going to have to somehow look at covering our costs," he says.