• We had a perfectly good “as new” Queen mattress which is only a few years old.
• The one drawback for us was the mattress being ultra heavy and, therefore, hard to make when changing sheets. It took an inordinate amount of heaving and lifting for me to be able to put a clean fitted sheet omn the mattress.
• Added to the dilemma was that the mattress was somehow ‘odd’ regarding compatibility with sheets. In the end, the bottom sheep gave out.
• We decided to replace this mattress with a new one, with equal comfort but better by far regarding weight and the ease with which sheets could be fitted.
• The mattress we were replacing was offered to the Salvation Army. Not interested.
• The mattress was then offered to the Red Cross. The manager with whom I spoke enlightened me. No matter what the condition of the mattress, government regulations prevented it from being accepted as a donation and then resold to someone needing a mattress.
• I was told this regulation was in place to avoid the transfer of bacteria, viruses, and other nasty things that might be embedded in the mattress. The fact that the mattress was covered with a thick, absorbent protector did not matter.
• We had to pay an additional $124.00 for this mattress to be taken by the deliverer of the new mattress, to the Shoal Bay dump to be dumped as rubbish.
• So, thanks to government regulations, a perfectly good mattress in almost 100% new condition – as the attached photos show – had to be tossed out.
• Now, THAT is progressive government health policy for us all to consider.

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