Save Up To 50% Off FREE LOCAL DELIVERY on all orders $399+ Oxnard Mattress Store and Clearance Center As of 12/30/2015, California state law requires retailers to collect an $11 recycling fee on each mattress and each box spring sold. A recycling fee of $22 must be assessed for the purchase of one mattress with one box spring.) The amount of the fee was mandated by the state and is not set by individual retailers. To see the details of the recycling fee in California click here. Mention Yelp For A 20% Discount! “They delivered it within a few days, worked around my busy schedule and even hauled it upstairs and set it up for us!” “After driving from Thousand Oaks to Ventura twice, and speaking to both Robert and Travis I was sold on American Mattress.” “I've purchased mattresses here in the past but recently went in and bought a box spring.” Yelp users haven’t asked any questions yet about American Mattress Man.Illegally dumped items attract more dumped items, and this sort of copycat littering is documented with photographs you can see by doing a web search for the phrase "Nothing Mattress."
The recycling of mattresses does not happen through simple market forces. The springs of a typical mattress are made of low-value tempered steel. The polyurethane foam is hard to assemble into usable bales. The wood of a bed frame is expensive to grind into mulch. The textiles are hard to recycle at any price, and beds and box springs are expensive to move, store and disassemble.To make recycling happen anyway, and to avoid illegal dumping, California this year joined Rhode Island and Connecticut in implementing a "product stewardship" initiative. Consumers who buy a new mattress pay a fee of $11 per mattress or box spring. This money goes to the Mattress Recycling Council, a nonprofit organization headed by mattress industry representatives and charged with running the program. The council is subject to oversight from the California Department of Resources Recovery and Recycling (CalRecycle) and input from an advisory committee, on which I serve. Their program includes incentives and requirements meant to facilitate recycling.
The first step, which took effect last year — as mandated two years earlier by Senate Bill 254 — was a requirement for all mattress retailers to accept old mattresses at no additional charge when delivering a new mattress at a customer's home. The next step, which began last year, was to register every manufacturer, retailer and renovator of mattresses in the state. Registration was necessary for the imposition of an $11 fee on every mattress and box spring sold in California. The Mattress Recycling Council uses collected money to provide payments to processing centers, and in exchange, these centers accept mattresses free from the public. For example, in Ventura County, you can get rid of your old mattress for free by having your mattress retailer collect it when a new one is delivered or by dropping it off at the Simi Valley Landfill and Recycling Center or at the Del Norte Regional Recycling and Transfer in Oxnard. Soon, Gold Coast Recycling and Transfer in Ventura will join the other two processing centers in accepting mattresses and box springs free, as long as these items come in clean, separate loads.
Currently, Gold Coast is pulling mattresses from mixed loads, sending more than 400 mattresses each month to a recycler in Los Angeles. Mattresses mixed with other materials will still be subject to at least the minimum fee at these facilities, which is around $25.Two other local options for discarding mattresses are funded by refuse collection rates. These options are cleanup events and curbside bulky-item collection. Occasional bin/box-based drop-off events are available in most local cities and unincorporated communities, and free drop-off at the Simi Valley Landfill is available at least once a year for the three east county cities and surrounding unincorporated areas due to city and county contracts with Waste Management. On a weekly basis, residents needing to discard an old mattress can call their regular refuse collector and request a bulky item collection. Most cities and unincorporated communities have contracts with collectors requiring at least one free collection per year.
If yours is not one of these areas with free collection, or if you have already used your annual allocation, you can keep your "eye on the environment" and recycle your mattress free at one of the local processing centers. David Goldstein is an environmental resource analyst for the county of Ventura. Rest For Less is a Mattress and Furniture warehouse In Camarillo, Ca. We strive to provide great customer service with affordable prices. We offer different types of mattresses and furniture items locally in Ventura County. We also have an online store of different types of mattresses and furniture items that we can ship to any of the lower 48 states for free. 330 wood road suite K (backside of building) Monday-Thursday by Appointment Only Saturday and Sunday: 11am-4pmSHOPPINGConsumer Reports finds the best mattresses online Should you buy your next mattress online? Consumer Reports' latest tests of 38 queen-size mattresses include a few that are sold primarily on the Internet.
The prices aren't bad, but how risky is it to buy a mattress sight unseen? Consumer Reports has long said that the best way to make sure you get a mattress you like is to try it in the store, but what if you don't want the hassle of shopping at a store and you'd rather buy online?Consumer Reports tested two queen-size foam mattresses primarily sold on the Internet: The Casper, which costs $850, and the foam Tuft & Needle Ten, which costs $600.Consumer Reports tests mattresses for a number of performance criteria, including how well a mattress can hold up to eight years of simulated use, how much support you get on your side and on your back, and if the mattress resists bouncing, so it doesn't transfer vibrations from one side to the other. Through their tests, the organization found out that some of the mattresses sold online are pretty impressive."The Casper memory-foam mattress got high scores for back and side support, and it resists bouncing, so you're less likely to wake up your partner," said Chris Regan of Consumer Reports.