Mission and vision
Valumat ASBL is the organisation responsible for managing extended producer responsibility for mattresses. An association founded and funded by the sector, its mission is to organise the efficient and cost-effective collection of used mattresses, while ensuring their sustainable disposal.
With this in mind, Valumat has set up the working group «Design for Circularity», which funds the search for collective solutions to help the industry achieve its objectives. Valumat acts transparently and collaborates with all stakeholders: producers and importers, collectors, processing facilities, authorities, local administrations, etc. In order to reduce the administrative burden, Valumat simplifies procedures as far as possible for all concerned.
Valumat ensures that its members meet their obligations under extended producer responsibility for mattresses.
While preserving the free play of the market, Valumat collaborates with collectors and dismantlers for the collection and recycling of used mattresses.
Valumat wants as many member producers and importers as possible to participate in the Valumat system in order to guarantee maximum market coverage.
In the long term, Valumat’s aim is for all materials from used mattresses to be reused, thus completing the material cycle in the circular economy.
