Edmonton and Central Alberta’s first mattress recycling facility. Evergreen Mattress Recycling is a service offered by 4 Good Home Services which was established to offer employment opportunities to men and women living in poverty and are often faced with employment barriers due to physical or mental health afflictions. In addition to our social cause, Evergreen strives to see 90% or more of every mattress and box spring recycled and diverted from the landfill. Working together with Evergreen, you become a local hero by investing in social and environmental sustainability! In 2015, Evergreen Recycling successfully established Edmonton’s and Central Alberta’s first mattress recycling facility, offering an environmental alternative to burying our mattresses. We are confident that together with the support of the public and corporate sectors, we will be able to significantly reduce the amount of waste that is disposed of each year. It all starts with you! It’s easy for you to personally have a lasting social and environmental impact in your local community.
Simply give us a call to book an on-site pick up, or come by our conveniently located West Edmonton warehouse to drop your items off. Once the items are received, let the recycling begin! After the items have arrived at our facility and have been sorted and processed, our staff will begin to manually separate each item. Beginning by simply cutting the mattress open, our trained staff separate all the individual components that comprise a mattress or a box spring. These materials that make up the mattress (steel, polyurethane foam, cotton, polyester, wood and more), will then be recycled back into different industry streams to find new use or be made into new products. With every shipment of material sent out, Evergreen Recycling endeavours to re-invest back into the local economy by sending items to vendors as close to home as possible. We are proud to boast that through our manual recycling process, we are able to see upwards of 90% of a mattress’ materials recycled and not buried in local landfills.
Along with your help, we are making a long lasting local impact socially and environmentally. Why Should You Recycle Your Mattress? Free Estimates - Book Now! Full Service Pick-Up (1-2 Items) Full Service Pick-Up (2-4 Items) Pick-Up Outside of Edmonton **We Accept Cash, Credit and Debit! *Please call for pricing on a pick-up of more than 4 items. **Items infested with bed bugs or other pests, or extremely soiled may be subject to further fees or refused upon Evergreens sole discretion. COMMERCIAL RATES - Please contact us for a custom tailored rate to suit your commercial recycling needs! Couch and loveseat recycling! WATCH ABOVE: The City of Edmonton is looking for a company to help it recycle the approximately 30,000 mattresses it receives every year. Right now the mattresses are sent to the landfill. But as Julia Wong reports, that could soon be a thing of the past. Right now, mattresses that are thrown away in the capital city go to the landfill and stay there, but the City of Edmonton is looking to change that.
The city is looking for a company to process and recycle mattresses received by the Edmonton Waste Management Centre. Connie Boyce, the director of community relations for the city’s Utility Services Department, said discussions about mattress recycling started a few years ago.Up to 30,000 mattresses are received every year – that works out to approximately 80 mattresses a day that are thrown away and left to sit at landfills.“They are very bulky so if there is a way to recycle them, we would want to explore that option. We’re looking for a company that can take that product, recycle it and reuse the material. It’s just another way of helping us to achieve our waste diversion targets,” Boyce said.Boyce said it is too early to say whether the city would receive a share of the profits after the recycled products are sold.“We are not necessarily [looking at turning a profit]. We want to keep waste out of the landfill. We don’t know what the cost will be. It needs to make economic sense as well as being a good environmental initiative,” she said.
Tom Modrovcic threw away three mattresses at the Kennedale Eco Station on Friday and was surprised to find out the items would be sitting at the landfill.This man had no idea his mattresses wont be recycled. He thought that's what happened to them after drop off. #/w9T2nVMibn— Julia Wong (@JWongGlobalNews) September 9, 2016“I was hoping they can make better use of them,” he said.But news that the city could be moving in a different direction is comforting.“I don’t feel as guilty knowing that, in the future, they’ll be taking care of it that way. Like I said, it feels like a waste just to throw it out to the landfill.”The University of Alberta started recycling mattresses two years ago as part of a pilot program. It will be the trend moving forward now.Sustainability coordinator Lauren Hall said 226 mattresses from residences were recycled last year while 167 mattresses were recycled this year.“When they go to the landfill, they just sit there. They don’t break down. They just take up space,” she said.“
We have a new institutional strategic plan that has a real focus on sustainability in residences so we wanted to start building that up.”4 Good Home Services is one of only two companies in the province that recycles mattresses. It recycles approximately 100 mattresses every day.This green bin is waste from 100 mattresses that can't be recycled. That takes up way less room than 100 mattresses! /otsQrjP6M4— Julia Wong (@JWongGlobalNews) September 9, 2016Workers first cut through the mattress and peel back the layers to separate all the different components for recycling.This is what their building and workspace looks like. It's a mattress cemetery pretty much. #/CGGz6bQ33v— Julia Wong (@JWongGlobalNews) September 9, 2016The company takes mattresses apart and collects the steel, foam, wood and padding then re-sells them. #/qh7v3ngzkj— Julia Wong (@JWongGlobalNews) September 9, 2016“We’re able to recycle the inner springs, all the steel from the mattresses is recyclable, wooden components from box springs is recyclable, polyurethane foam gets turned into carpet underpad, the felt pads get turned into moving pads,” said director of operations Bretton Hammond.Hammond said 90 per cent of materials are able to be re-used and said it is astonishing that the items are currently being thrown away by the city.“