In Larzac, the Dutch company RetourMatras is setting up its first French mattress recycling plant.

Seven hundred and fifty thousand used mattresses, the equivalent of 13,000 tons of material, must be recycled there each year. This is the goal of the first French plant of the Dutch mattress recycling specialist RetourMatras, established since September 2024 in La Cavalerie (Aveyron), on the Larzac plateau. It has four others in the Netherlands and three in the United Kingdom, and recycles 1.5 million mattresses per year.

A host of personalities, such as the number one and two of Ikea in France, were invited, Thursday, May 15, to discover this industrial site, managed by its French subsidiary RetourMat, and put on track by the Choose France 2023 summit. The Swedish furniture giant Ikea, shareholder of RetourMatras since 2019 alongside Ikano Industry (mattress manufacturer) and Renewi (waste management), had at the time announced an investment of around 1.2 billion euros between 2023 and 2026 for its development in France. As part of Choose France 2025 , it announced, Monday, May 19, "an additional 100 million euros for the period 2025-2030" .

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