The Mattress Recycling Council’s (MRC) Connecticut stewardship program, Bye Bye Mattress, recycled 20,000 mattresses in their first three months of operation, May–July 2015. On October 1 in California, CalRecycle approved the MRC's budget and recycling fee for the California Mattress Recycling Program (also to be known as Bye Bye Mattress): beginning Dec. 30, 2015, all mattress retailers and other sellers must collect an $11 recycling fee on each mattress or box spring sold to California end-users. In advance of the California MRC program beginning in 2016, St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County opened a second Northern California mattress recycling facility. An article in the Daily Democrat quotes St. Vincent’s operations manager at the new location saying “I cannot tell you how much I can’t keep the landfills serviced. They are so packed with mattresses, that they’re calling me and begging me to pick them up...So we’re just constantly bringing mattresses in.”