The posts below are about the challenges posed by reconditioned and refurbished mattresses. The City of New York recently began to require the bagging of mattresses and box springs set out for garbage collection. Over the summer (2010), the New York State Governor vetoed a bill that would have ended the exception that allows mattresses returned by consumers after a 30-day consumer trial period to be sold as new. Also, the New York State Department of State finally adopted mattress sanitizing regulations. However, the sanitizing mechanisms in the final regulations are inadequate to the task of sanitizing used bedding against bed bugs and (perhaps for this reason) include an untested and ambiguous “permanent, non-permeable covering” option. How this will play in the context of ineffective mattress sanitizing practices already in use by the industry is not yet clear.