Mattress Disposal & Recycling in Los Angeles
Same-day mattress and box spring pickup, taken to a California-certified recycler rather than a landfill.
The Junkiez provides same-day mattress disposal & recycling in Los Angeles. Same-day mattress and box spring pickup, taken to a California-certified recycler rather than a landfill.
Getting rid of a mattress in Southern California is deliberately hard. You cannot put it in a bin, most landfills will not accept it loose, and city bulky-item pickup often means waiting two to three weeks with the thing sitting in your driveway. We pick it up the same day, carry it down whatever stairs are involved, and deliver it to a recycler under the state programme.
Mattresses in Los Angeles
Los Angeles is not one hauling market, it is about forty of them. A job in Highland Park means a 1910s Craftsman with a detached garage down a shared driveway; the same job in Koreatown means a fourth-floor unit in a 1960s courtyard building with one small elevator and permit parking on every side. We have crews who know the difference before they arrive, which is mostly what determines whether a pickup takes forty minutes or three hours.
The City of Los Angeles offers residents free bulky-item collection through LA Sanitation — genuinely worth using if your timeline is flexible, and we will tell you so. What it does not solve is a same-week move-out, an item that has to come down from a third floor, or anything the city classifies as excluded. Our loads go to certified transfer and materials recovery facilities, and for construction debris we deliver to the certified processors the city requires for permit sign-off.
What we take
- Mattresses — twin, full, queen, king, California king
- Box springs and foundations
- Memory foam, latex and hybrid mattresses
- Crib and toddler mattresses
- Futon mattresses and sofa-bed inserts
- Adjustable bed bases and bed frames
- Mattress toppers and protectors
Why you cannot just throw it away
California banned mattresses from most landfill disposal streams and created the Mattress Recycling Council programme, funded by a recycling fee collected at the point of sale. Roughly 75% of a mattress by weight — steel springs, polyurethane foam, cotton fibre and timber — is genuinely recoverable. Dumping one illegally in LA County carries fines that start in the hundreds and climb fast.
Getting a price in Los Angeles
We quote free on site, before anything is loaded, and the number does not change afterwards. Our rates are the same everywhere we work — there is no Los Angeles surcharge, and stairs, long carries and disassembly are all included.
We cover all of Los Angeles, including Downtown, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Los Feliz, Highland Park and Koreatown.