How do I dispose of a couple mattresses?

[JinSun]

I've got two twin mattresses that are super old and need to be tossed. The only suggestions I can find online involve either taking it apart myself or hiring someone, in which case it'll cost about 100 or more.

Am I allowed to cram them in those giant blue/green dumpsters they have near businesses or in parking lots? Or maybe I should take it to the city dump?

 

[adrina]

Search Google for charities in your city that need them.

 

[Sean]

Wrap them up in a couple of corpses.

 

[JinSun]

Search Google for charities in your city that need them.

They're pretty springy and stiff, will they still want them? I've had em for about 20 years or so, since I was a kid.

 

[coachdb18]

They're pretty springy and stiff, will they still want them? I've had em for about 20 years or so, since I was a kid.

The dump... or take them out in the woods and use them for target backstops, they're great for that too...

 

[raindancer]

If they are decent shape, people will use them. List them on Craigslist or FB marketplace and they will be hauled off quickly.

 

[hobbit.]

Wrap them up in a couple of corpses.

???

put them in a neighbours door way, dosue them in flammable, non drinkable, spirit and set them on fire. the fire brigade will deal with the rest of the equation.

 

[butters]

most charities won't take used, old mattresses. others won't take even good ones if their fire retardant labels are missing or if they don't meet the new standard requirements.

businesses have to pay for those dumpsters to be emptied! i'd think you'd need to take them to the dump or get someone to take them away.

 

[adrina]

They're pretty springy and stiff, will they still want them? I've had em for about 20 years or so, since I was a kid.

Most likely yes they still would. They are for the homeless usually. An old mattress beats the floor.

 

[butters]

Most likely yes they still would. They are for the homeless usually. An old mattress beats the floor.

they will? damn, they do do things differently out here. sorry, jinsun, i'm still getting used to the american way

 

[coachdb18]

Most likely yes they still would. They are for the homeless usually. An old mattress beats the floor.

Goodwill won't take them, when they turn it down, it's landfill material.

 

[EternalFantasies]

Don't call charities to give super old mattresses that need to be tossed... ...


Call the city, they must have a day where they (or their contractor) pick up larger items and you put them by the dumpster that morning or night before.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

From what I've heard here in the midwest it's not even legal to sell used mattresses.
I'm not sure if it was luck or not, I bought this house while still in Florida over the internet.
Made an offer for some of the new looking furniture. The older than dirt couple handling everything told my son the bedroom outfits are like new. The little old lady slept in the recliner in the living room.
Then they begged him to please dispose of the bedroom things, new matresses, etc. and the like new washer/dryer.
For the past year we've been sleeping like babies on the matresses. We added matress topper pads and new bedding of course. Also bought new washer/dryers for an upstairs bedroom, leaving the other set in basement.

But no one asked this.
What you might do is toss those old matresses on the roof of your car, tie them very loosely, and take a ride on a bumpy curvey country lane. It's been done before.

 

[Aglaopheme]

http://donationtown.org/news/donate-a-mattress.html

 

[Hypoxia]

You're in the wrong place. I've seen more than a few USA towns and cities with municipal public-access dumpsters available. If none are near you, call your town or county office and find the nearest landfill. Disposing of your two mattresses in my area costs about US$20.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Dollie

You're in the wrong place. I've seen more than a few USA towns and cities with municipal public-access dumpsters available. If none are near you, call your town or county office and find the nearest landfill. Disposing of your two mattresses in my area costs about US$20.

In Illinois it costs to breath. Someone has to buy those presidents and other polititions we have.
Now where we lived in Florida you just drove to the nearest large free dumpster.

 

[jaF0]

You're in the wrong place. I've seen more than a few USA towns and cities with municipal public-access dumpsters available. If none are near you, call your town or county office and find the nearest landfill. Disposing of your two mattresses in my area costs about US$20.

We have what are called 'Convenience Centers'. I can take a full pickup truck or equivalent sized trailer and dump the whole load for $10.00

 

[silver gurl]

Charities won't take bedding because of bed bugs. We have large collection day once a month, where they will pick them up.

 

[Hypoxia]

I formerly lived in Bisbee Arizona, a vertical mile-high mining town in mountains on the Sonora border. Old Bisbee is steep. 40% of the houses in towns are on stairways, not roads. Folks brag about climbing 187 steps to their front door. All food, furniture, and flotsam had to be hauled up those 187 steps before any debris could be hauled back down to the awaiting town dumpster.

By some weird coincidence, many higher homes have old mattresses and other worn-out furniture arrayed outside as vine supports, art projects, and wall reinforcements. Think of it as recycling in action.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Dollie

I formerly lived in Bisbee Arizona, a vertical mile-high mining town in mountains on the Sonora border. Old Bisbee is steep. 40% of the houses in towns are on stairways, not roads. Folks brag about climbing 187 steps to their front door. All food, furniture, and flotsam had to be hauled up those 187 steps before any debris could be hauled back down to the awaiting town dumpster.

By some weird coincidence, many higher homes have old mattresses and other worn-out furniture arrayed outside as vine supports, art projects, and wall reinforcements. Think of it as recycling in action.

Around here you'd get a warning then a big fine for illegal dumping or something about it not looking pretty.

 

[jaF0]

Around here, they used to just toss it out back and bury it ... eventually. Every time I stick a shovel in the ground to plant something, I hit an old bottle or machine part of some kind. I've dug up wagon wheels, fenders, old stove parts and pretty much everything else including bed springs and complete bed frames.

 

[Kazakhstan]

I've got two twin mattresses that are super old and need to be tossed. The only suggestions I can find online involve either taking it apart myself or hiring someone, in which case it'll cost about 100 or more.

Am I allowed to cram them in those giant blue/green dumpsters they have near businesses or in parking lots? Or maybe I should take it to the city dump?

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1979623485/borat.jpg

"Splatter chicken blood all over with foot prints. Advertise on eBay the
mattress come from 879 South Bundy Drive in Brentwood, California."

 

[Hypoxia]

"Splatter chicken blood all over with foot prints. Advertise on eBay the
mattress come from 879 South Bundy Drive in Brentwood, California."

You are one sick, morbid fuck.

I like that in a man.

 

[thør]

Put 'em on the curb and tape a $5 sign to them. Someone will steal 'em.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

Put 'em on the curb and tape a $5 sign to them. Someone will steal 'em.

Probably the most sensible answer so far.

Well the chicken blood idea is not bad either.