It can be difficult and costly to avoid trashing your old mattress in a landfill.
Donating my old queen-sized mattress proved difficult. I recycled it and paid nearly $100 for the service in New York.The economics can be challenging for recyclers.
As someone who meticulously tries to cut waste in everyday life — avoiding single-use plastics, composting food scraps — it was painful to think of mine wasting away in a landfill. Unusually, the Charles County service is largely free for residents. They can bring two items a day — like a mattress and box spring — to the Charles County Landfill for recycling for no charge. Additional items cost $10 per piece.
The expense covered mattress pickup from my Brooklyn apartment and transport to the company's warehouse in Oceanside, New York. in such states pay a fee each time they buy a mattress: $10.50 in California, $11.75 in Connecticut, $20.50 in Rhode Island and $22.50 in Oregon, said Amanda Wall, a spokesperson for the Mattress Recycling Council. MRC is a nonprofit created by the International Sleep Products Association, a mattress industry trade group, to build and run these state programs.
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