Diamond Mattress Sparks Child Creativity with Up-Cycled Materials

Omnichannel bedding model Diamond Mattress is giving new life to waste supplies and provoking younger minds to create new merchandise. 

Diamond is donating scrap supplies from its Southern California manufacturing unit to Little one Creativity Lab (CCL), an area non-profit group whose mission is to domesticate creativity in youngsters with science, expertise, engineering, artwork and math. CCL makes use of supplies from Diamond Mattress that might in any other case be thrown away to help educators and fogeys with their curriculum and makerspaces.

“Considered one of our core values is to go away a constructive legacy, and we will’t consider a greater approach to do this than to supply inspiration to future generations of innovators and makers,” stated Breana Pennington, Diamond Mattress vice chairman. 

Supplies from Diamond embody cloth, yarn and thread spools, plastic and cardboard cores, and zippers. The objects are sorted and cleaned by Diamond Mattress workers to make sure they’re freed from contamination that are then included into STEAM-based kits by youngsters all through Orange County.

The donation concept was launched by Diamond CFO Brian Arnold who’s a CCL board member and volunteer. 

“Changing and donating scrap materials doesn’t simply assist children – it additionally helps the setting by preserving these things out of the landfills,” stated Arnold. 

Diamond Mattress will probably be acknowledged because the 2022 Materials Companion of the 12 months at CCL’s 10th Anniversary gala occasion on Could 20. Tracey Hill, CCL Chief Govt Officer, estimates that its Depot for Reuse program diverts greater than 3 tons of supplies from landfills every year, and its partnership with Diamond deepens its potential to help the group.

About Diamond Mattress:

Diamond Mattress is a High 20 U.S. mattress producer and main omnichannel sleep wellness model with a practice of product and manufacturing innovation. The privately held, fourth-generation firm is dedicated to superior service with a give attention to customized options of top of the range and worth whereas selling the significance of sleep and its impression on private wellness.

About Little one Creativity Lab:

Little one Creativity Lab is an area Orange County non-profit whose mission is to foster the following era of essential thinkers, downside solvers, innovators, and leaders by means of hands-on creativity enhancing exploration.