The circle of it: This company creates a new type of mattress-free bed that can easily be reconfigured and reused many times over, thereby staying in circulation longer than typical mattresses.
ammique
Summary
Ammique envisions a new type of circular and sustainable mattress-free bed that can be easily taken apart and reconfigured many times over. Traditional mattresses are notoriously difficult to recycle and reuse, because of concerns of hygiene and sanitization. According to the UK’s National Bed Federation, over 8 million mattresses end up in UK landfills every year. Ammique is designed to be modular replacement for mattresses using recycled plastic that can be used countless times and reconfigured and remade many times over based on any type of specification. (Source) The Ammique® bed is a mattress-free sleep system with a body support mechanism comprised of recycled plastic support that can hold and cushion a body comfortably for sleep. The beds can be cleaned and recleaned and used and reused repeatedly throughout their very long-life. The bed is designed to support the body individually in the correct sleeping position for optimal comfort, and is hygienic with anti-bacterial protection built into the bed. The padding for the bed is easily removable and the plastic support modules can be reconfigured into new beds or new sleeping configurations. The company views it’s products having almost unlimited reuse potential. 90% of the plastic components are made using reprocessed material. The company claims that their beds are assembled in modules, engineered to perform, easy to clean, adapative in form and function and have an estimated functional life of over 250 years. (Source)
Story
Founder Marlene Greenhalgh was a founder of a bespoke furniture design and manufacturing based company near Bath, England. It was there when she started wondering why bed design had hardly changed since the 19th century. She wanted to create a new type of bed given the deterioration that comes with support and cleanliness with traditional mattresses. Greenhalgh and her team carried out research on bed systems and set out to design and create a new type of bed that would be better for the body and the planet. (Source)
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“It worries me that governments persist in stressing the importance of growth as currently measured in GDP, despite warnings from renowned economists that it is not (and never was) feasible to chase higher and higher GDP, which is fuelled by consumption and continues to strip our planet’s resources faster than our planet can replenish them. We cannot continue to rely on a flawed measure borne of a failed system based on false ideologies.”
Marlene Greenhalgh in an interview
Founder(s)
Marlene Greenhalgh
Headquarters
Bath, UK
In business since
2003
Business type
for profit
Impact
Technology
creating a modular mattress-free bed that can be reconfigured into new beds
Material
recycled plastic
Website
The Circular People 
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