The Mattress Recycling Council is here to assist you with recycling your tenants’ discarded mattresses. Take advantage of MRC’s Bye Bye Mattress program.

Constantly confronted with piles of mattresses? If you are dealing with dozens of mattresses left in apartments, hallways, or parking lots, let us help you. Our Commercial Volume Program is the best solution.

You or your service providers can qualify for free drop off at a designated recycling facility. If there are more than 100 units, you qualify for no-cost pickup! Registration is required.

Has your tenant asked you what they can do with their mattress? Your tenants also have access to free drop off locations that we’ve established in various counties. Use ByeByeMattress.com to find the nearest option.

To combat mattress dumping, start a proactive education campaign with your tenants:

• Outline your rules in your tenant’s move-in or move-out packet for proper disposal of an unwanted mattress. Your town may offer curbside bulky item pickup for multifamily housing. If not, there may be a free drop-off location in your area courtesy of MRC’s Bye Bye Mattress program. Check ByeByeMattress.com for the nearby locations and events that will allow your tenant to drop off a mattress at no charge.
• Let your tenants know that many mattress retailers will take back their old mattress and box spring when a newly purchased one is delivered.
• As your tenants make their move-out plans, encourage them to take the steps to recycle any mattress that they will not be taking with them.
• Alternatively, if you or a service provider is able to haul them away (or store up to 100 units for MRC to haul them away), create a designated spot for them to leave their old mattress where it will not get wet and dirty and potentially become ineligible for recycling. Make sure you or your service provider has completed a registration form in order to drop off all the unwanted mattresses for free at a designated recycling facility (or receive pick up).

Continue to educate your tenants by posting notices above mailboxes, in the laundry room and in the hallway reminding residents of your guidelines.

• Contact info@byebyemattress.com if you are interested in receiving materials to educate your residents. We have templates for fliers, newsletters, social media content and more and would be happy to assist you.

To learn more contact:

Joy Broussard, 
ORcvp@mrc-us.org,
(707) 307-3052