Are you wondering how to recycle a mattress? You’ve got options no matter where you live! The best way is to recycle it. The old steel, foam, fibers, wood, and other materials can be used to create new products.
Below we share resources to help you recycle your mattress and rest easy knowing you did the right thing.
How to Recycle a Mattress in California
In the State of California, you have several options when you’d like to recycle mattress at no cost.
- Retailer take back: When you buy a new mattress and are having it delivered, ask your retailer about taking your old one back. California law requires retailers to offer to pick up an old mattress at no extra cost. You can learn more here.
- Recycle your mattress: You can drop off your mattress at a collection site or recycling facility for free. We also have collection events throughout the state. Find one here.
- Bulky item pick up: Contact your local government to learn how curbside pick up of a bulky item works in your area. You may have free pick up available! Policies vary and an appointment may be required. View the directory here.
Mattress retailers, hotels, universities, hospitals, military facilities and other businesses that want to dispose of mattresses can also do so at no cost with the help of our Commercial Volume Program.
How to Recycle a Mattress in Connecticut
Here are your options for recycling a mattress in the State of Connecticut:
- Recycle your mattress: Most transfer stations allow their town residents to drop off mattresses for free. Meanwhile, any resident can drop off mattresses at Park City Green in Bridgeport or the Salvation Army locations in Hartford and Newington. See if your local transfer station is participating or get directions to the statewide accessible locations here.
- Retailer take back: When you buy a new mattress and have it delivered, ask your retailer to take your old one back.
- Bulky item pick up: Contact your local government to learn how curbside pick up of a bulky item works in your area. You may have free pick up available! Policies vary and an appointment may be required. View the directory here.
Mattress retailers, hotels, universities, hospitals, military facilities and other businesses that want to dispose of mattresses can also do so at no cost with the help of our Commercial Volume Program.
How to Recycle a Mattress in Rhode Island
Here are your options for recycling a mattress in the State of Rhode Island:
- Recycle your mattress: Most transfer stations allow their town residents to drop off mattresses for free. Meanwhile, any resident can drop off mattresses at Ace Mattress Recycling or the Central Landfill. See if your local transfer station is participating or get directions to the statewide accessible locations here.
- Retailer take back: When you buy a new mattress and have it delivered, ask your retailer to take your old one back.
- Bulky item pick up: Contact your local government to learn how curbside pick up of a bulky item works in your area. You may have free pick up available! Policies vary and an appointment may be required. View the directory here.
Mattress retailers, hotels, universities, hospitals, military facilities and other businesses that want to dispose of mattresses can also do so at no cost with the help of our Commercial Volume Program.
How to Recycle a Mattress in other states
The Bye Bye Mattress program is run by the Mattress Recycling Council, a nonprofit organization formed by the mattress industry to operate recycling programs in those states that have enacted mattress recycling laws. The program is currently running in California, Connecticut, and Rhode Island and funded by a recycling fee collected when consumers buy a mattress or box spring.
If you are living in a state without a mattress recycling law, you still have options for recycling your used mattress! Check out our directory of what’s available in your state here.
Recycling your mattress doesn’t have to be hard! And you can do it while being environmentally conscious.