Words to the Whys

Problem: I want to find a bed that supports me and my partner in the correct sleeping posture and helps me sleep better and stay healthier for longer.

Q1) “Why is finding a good quality, healthy and sustainable mattress that will suit me and my partner such a hassle?”

A1) Because all mattresses are confusing to assess and difficult to choose as well as being unwieldy, unsanitary, uninspiring, and unsustainable.

 Q2) “Why are they difficult to assess, confusing to choose, unwieldy, unsanitary, uninspiring, and unsustainable?”

A2) Because mattresses must be chosen on feel (soft, medium, or hard) not on performance. They cannot be assessed objectively, and are bulky and awkward to manhandle and manoeuvre, fill up with dust, dead skin, bodily fluids, mites, and microbes, look like giant quilted incontinence pads, and must be discarded frequently.

 Q3) “Why can’t they be assessed objectively? Why are they bulky and awkward to manhandle and manoeuvre? Why do they fill up with dust, dead skin, bodily fluids, mites, and microbes? Why do they look like giant quilted incontinence pads? Why do they need to be discarded frequently?”

A3) Because all mattresses are not functional in any way that we now understand they should be. Because they all must be chosen subjectively based on a guesstimate of comfort level in the knowledge that any support achieved (by chance) will lessen with every use, and because they are giant quilted, unhygienic pads that rapidly absorb litres of moisture and kilos of dead skin flakes and other detritus within which bacteria and viruses thrive and cannot be removed. Hence they end up fit only for disposal. Because each mattress made and used and discarded will be another one adding to many others amounting to millions of take-make-waste mattresses that are destined for landfill or incineration. Because mattresses cannot be energy or cost effectively recycled. Hence the millions pile higher and higher, every year and everywhere, which is unsustainable.

 Q4) “Why are mattresses not functional in any way they should be?”

A4) Because they were never designed to be functional in any way that we now understand that they should be. They were and are designed to feel ‘comfortable’ hence the layers of fluff literally and metaphorically – poor Goldilocks would have the same problem today as she ever did.

 Q5) “Why were mattresses never designed to be functional in any way other than to feel ‘comfortable’?”

A5) Because they were designed hundreds of years ago to be more comfortable than the floor and they have evolved with the focus on comfort - not consistent support or hygiene or manoeuvrability or longevity or sustainability and certainly not circularity. Because you cannot engineer with springs held in pockets, foam, gels and layers of wool, horsehair, or any other material no matter how they are combined and no matter how they are stitched – by hand or by machine. There is no precision and there is no longevity and there is no hygiene in blocks of absorbent mattresses no matter how configured they might be.

Root Cause: Mattresses are badly designed for people and detrimental to the planet.

Conclusion: Reinvent the bed without a mattress and transform the bed industry into a sustainable, mattress-free, and circular sleep industry.

 AMMIQUE® is uniquely placed to transform a high waste, low utility and linear mattress industry into a low waste, high utility and circular mattress-free sleep industry that is economically, ethically, and ecologically sustainable - worldwide.

Our mission is to clean up the global mattress industry and stop the manufacture and disposal of millions of mattresses year after year in every part of the world. Our precision engineered sleep solution is a high performance, durable body support and mattress-free sleep system. Adaptive in function and form, it is a complete bed and a radical leap away from the conventional bed and mattress combo.

Ammique solution in brief:

1.      Product is an interconnected and interdependent multi-component system – by design

2.      Processes are interconnected and interdependent multi-operation systems – by design

3.      Every component is coded and trackable and every operation is traceable – digital by design

4.      Product assurance of quality, utility, and longevity – estimated functional life of over 250 years – durable by design

5.      Product designed to use waste (over 90% reprocessed material) and to reduce waste (no more mattress mountains) – sustainably and purposefully in a loop - by design

6.      Product assembled in modules for ease of manhandling, manoeuvrability, care, and maintenance - by design

7.      Product designed with removeable/ washable padding and interchangeable decorative fixtures - can be easily cleaned and re-cleaned/ styled and restyled/ safely used and reused/ rented and re-rented/ sold and re-sold repeatedly – by design

8.      Retain product ownership via subscription service – by design

9.      Retain product oversight post sales service contract – by design

10.  Specialist common components easy to access and to disassemble – by design

11.  Highly focused local production and distribution – by design

12.  Need never go to landfill – by design

“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” - Harper Lee

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