Mattress and Box Spring Removal in Southeastern Massachusetts

Mattress removal got harder in Massachusetts on November 1, 2022, when the state banned mattresses and box springs from the trash. Now your town may want an appointment, a fee per piece, or a trip to the transfer station with a sticker on your windshield. We make it one step. Send a photo, get a price before any work starts, and we carry the mattress out of the bedroom, down the stairs and onto the truck. From there it goes to recycling, not the curb.

What our mattress removal covers

We take any size, crib to king, plus box springs, foundations, futon mattresses, bed frames, headboards and the bunk bed nobody wants to take apart. We do all the lifting from wherever it sits: a third-floor bedroom, a finished basement, the garage where it has leaned against the wall for a year. You don't drag anything to the curb or fight a queen box spring around a tight stair landing.

One mattress is a fine job. So is a mattress plus the dresser, the nightstands and the bags of old sheets and blankets from the spare room. Sheets, blankets and clothing count as textiles, which Massachusetts banned from the trash on the same day as mattresses, so we keep them out of the trash too. If more of the bedroom is going, put it all in the same photo and we'll price it as one visit.

Tell us up front if a mattress is wet, moldy or has had bed bugs. The state's mattress ban treats contaminated mattresses differently from clean ones, so we need to know before we quote. We'd rather see it in your photo than find out in your hallway.

What this covers

• Single mattress or box spring pickup
• Full bed sets: mattress, box spring, frame and headboard
• Bedroom cleanouts with dressers, nightstands and linens
• Landlord turnovers: mattresses a tenant left behind
• Several mattresses at once from a rental, a camp or a business
• Mattresses as part of a whole-house or estate cleanout

What’s included

• A price from your photo or a free on-site estimate, before any work begins
• Carrying from any room and any floor
• Loading and hauling
• Recycling of mattresses and box springs, as Massachusetts requires
• Bed frames, headboards and linens in the same trip
• A sweep of the spot where it stood

How to get rid of a mattress in Massachusetts now that it's banned from the trash

You can't put a mattress in the trash in Massachusetts anymore. Since November 1, 2022, MassDEP's waste-ban rule (310 CMR 19.017) has banned mattresses and box springs of every size from disposal, or from being hauled for disposal, and textiles went on the list the same day. MassDEP inspects landfills and incinerators to catch haulers who bring banned items in, so most towns stopped taking mattresses with bulky trash. The state says more than 75 percent of a mattress can be taken apart and recycled: the steel springs, the foam, the box-spring wood and the fabric. Mattresses also damage incinerator equipment, and a lot of this region's trash, including Freetown's, New Bedford's and many Cape towns', has gone to the SEMASS waste-to-energy plant in Rochester.

Each town answered the ban its own way. When it started, Taunton stopped collecting mattresses as bulk waste and pointed residents to a paid curbside recycler that counts a mattress and box spring as two pieces. New Bedford moved to curbside pickup by appointment with a fee, one mattress and one box spring per household every six months. Dartmouth set per-piece prices for curbside pickup and for its transfer station. Fairhaven sends mattresses through its own mattress program, and its recycling center needs a yearly sticker. Fall River's Solid Waste Division handles bulky items through curbside collection and its Lewiston Street drop-off. Fees and limits change, so check your town's page first.

Those programs work if you can wait for the appointment, stay under the limit and get the mattress to the curb. When you can't, a hauler earns its keep: we come when you need us, take more than one, carry it down, and handle the recycling. If you're buying a new mattress, ask the store about haul-away first. MassDEP notes most sellers take the old one when they deliver.

Rhode Island runs a different system, so don't mix the rules. RI law adds a recycling fee when you buy a new mattress, and the Mattress Recycling Council's Bye Bye Mattress program uses it to let residents drop mattresses off free at most town transfer stations, at the Central Landfill in Johnston and at a recycler in Pawtucket. If you have a truck and a free morning, that's a good option. If you don't, we pick up in Rhode Island too.

How it works

1. 1

   Send a photo

   Call or text us a picture of the mattress and anything else that's going, the town, and which floor it's on. If the stairs are tight or there's a long walk to the driveway, mention it.

2. 2

   Get your price first

   We price from the photo, or come out for a free on-site estimate. You know the exact number before any work begins, and there's no obligation.

3. 3

   Pick a time

   We book around your day. Same-day pickup happens when the schedule has room, so ask when you reach out.

4. 4

   We carry it out

   The crew does all the lifting: off the bed, down the stairs, through the door and onto the truck. You don't need to move anything first. If a mattress has had bed bugs, tell us so it can be bagged.

5. 5

   Sweep and recycle

   We sweep the spot where it stood. Mattresses and box springs go to recycling, metal frames go to scrap metal recycling, and anything worth donating is set aside for donation.

A real job: before and after

Mattress Removal questions

Sources (13)

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