Donating my old queen-sized mattress proved difficult. I recycled it and paid nearly $100 for the service in New York. More than 75% of mattress materials, like wood, foam, steel and fiber, can be ...

Somerville residents have a new environmentally friendly way to dispose of their old mattresses and box springs. The city this month launched a free curbside mattress and box spring recycling program.

The Bye Bye Mattress Program, the mattress recycling program headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, and operated by the Mattress Recycling Council, Alexandria, Virginia, has recently announced that ...

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Mattresses and box springs will no longer be accepted for free at Williamson County Solid Waste facilities. “Mattresses are a problem,” said Mac Nolen, Williamson ...

I paid $95 to recycle a mattress. It may sound odd, silly even, to pay so much to dispose of a run-of-the-mill household item. But the economics of mattress recycling illustrate why it can be ...