Our live stream event has ended! We’re continuing our efforts to launch a mattress recycling center in San Antonio.
Stay tuned for upcoming events and check out our video game!
Event Schedule
We are looking into hosting an even in San Antonio Texas. If you would like to help, please contact us at chris@re-mat.org
About
We need your help to raise $60,000 to start a new non-profit mattress recycling center in San Antonio, Texas.
The Problem
Over 140,000 mattresses are disposed of in San Antonio annually! That’s 4,200 tons of materials that can be recycled!
According to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas only has 56 years left of landfill space. Therefore, it’s imperative that we begin diverting mattresses from our landfills now! More and more cities are recognizing this challenge and are searching for solutions.
Re-Mat Proposes to be That Solution
Re-Mat is a Texas nonprofit social enterprise founded in 2017 with a mission to employ disenfranchised members of our community to recycling used mattresses across Texas. We’re working to launch mattress recycling facilities in several metropolitan areas across Texas, starting with San Antonio. We are aligned with and guided by several leading Central Texas nonprofit foundations that have embraced our mission.
We are here to address the needs of Texas cities struggling to find sustainable solutions for disposed mattresses. We are proud members of the State of Texas Alliance for Recycling. Recently, Austin Community Foundation welcomed Re-Mat to the Foundation’s community of givers. Austin Community Foundation offers Fiscal Sponsorship and support to select projects that help further their mission to make Texas a better place for everyone.
How It Works
Our Staff will deconstruct mattresses by hand, separate the materials (steel, foam, ticking, cotton, shoddy wool) and bale them.
We will then sell the baled materials to our downstream vendors for reuse.
We’ve developed our program with the help of several nonprofits currently performing mattress recycling across the nation. Through a combination of processing fees and the sale of the recycled materials, we will approach break-even operational cash flow by the end of our first year of operation. We will offer drop-off and citywide collection services.
The Team
Christopher Moken – Founder
Email chris@re-mat.org
Evan Hansen – Volunteer
Phone 830-476-3012
Email evanmhansen@gmail.com
The Board
Richard Menchaca
George Campa
Dan Duet
We need your help to raise $60,000 to rent our first warehouse facility in San Antonio, buy equipment, and install a vertical baler machine. Funds will be used for:
$0 Vertical baler – one was donated to us! But we need a warehouse to install it in.
25,000 – Our first goal will be used for renting a small warehouse space 5,000-7,000 sq ft for 6 or more months and installing the baler.
29,000 – We can rent space and buy equipment (bailing wire, work gloves, painters mask, cutting tools, biz phone, internet, tablet, gaylord boxes)
33,000 – Local advertising (hotel and lodging association member fee, community awareness, online advertising, public events)
50,000 – We can afford to hire part-time warehouse staff for 6 months.
75,000 – Additional staff pay and hires
85,000 – Another vertical baler
100,000 – A forklift
100,000 or more – Working capital, more hires, box truck
Our Live stream is over, but we have other events coming soon!
Follow us on social media to keep up to date about our next events.
Details https://re-mat.org/event
Live Stream https://www.twitch.tv/rematsa
Discord Server https://discord.gg/HxEHyQ
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ReMatRecycle/
Donate https://re-mat.org/donate
(Founder) Christopher Moken
Email chris@re-mat.org
(Volunteer) Evan Hansen
Phone 830-476-3012
Email evanmhansen@gmail.com
Re-Mat: Fight to Save the Future
Genre: 80s Sci-fi with 80s Metal/Synth/Pop music
Setting: Future and present day San Antonio
Mechanics: 2d Platformer Action-RPG
The Year is 2089. The world lacks recycling facilities and has been consumed by trash. The last 5 humans built you, a time traveling recycling machine, RE-MAT01. Your task -go back in time and save the earth-
