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Getting rid of a mattress in LA County,
without paying twice

The recycling on your old mattress was paid for at the register the day the new one was bought, which is why every route on this page is free.

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The short answer

In LA County getting rid of a mattress is free. City of Los Angeles residents get unlimited free curbside pickup from LA Sanitation on 1-800-773-2489. Everyone else can drop one at a Bye Bye Mattress site at no cost, because the California mattress recycling fee of $18.00 per unit was already paid at purchase.

There is no legal route in Los Angeles County that requires you to pay a disposal charge for a household mattress. There are two free routes, and which one is right for you turns on a single question: can you get the thing into a vehicle. If you can, drive it to one of the confirmed drop-off sites below and it costs nothing. If you cannot, book the curbside pickup your city already runs and it also costs nothing, as long as you can carry it to the curb on the right morning.

The third route, paying a crew, exists for the cases where neither of those is true: a walk-up with no elevator, no vehicle, a deadline today, or a whole house of beds. We do that work. We would still rather you read the first two sections and find out you do not need us.

A mattress is the single most commonly abandoned large item on Los Angeles streets, and the reason is almost never money. It is that people do not know the free routes exist, or they call one city’s number while living in another, or they find out on a Tuesday that the pickup runs on Thursday and the lease ends Wednesday.

This page is the whole picture in one place: the state fee that already paid for the recycling, every free drop-off site in the county we could confirm today with its cap and its opening hours, the curbside programs compared city by city, the building-type rule that quietly moves half of Los Angeles off the free list, and what the statute actually says about leaving a bed in an alley. Every number traces to the body that publishes it, and every source is listed at the bottom.

The money already spent

You already paid for this, at the store

California runs a mattress stewardship program under its used mattress recovery and recycling law. CalRecycle oversees it; the nonprofit Mattress Recycling Council, created by mattress manufacturers, renovators and retailers, runs it as the Bye Bye Mattress program. It is funded by a recycling fee that the retailer collects from you on every mattress, futon and foundation sold for use in California and remits in full to the Council.

The Council raised that fee from $16.00 to $18.00 per unit for units sold on or after April 1, 2026, citing increases in third-party labor, transportation and operating costs. It applies per unit regardless of size or type, it is not subject to sales tax, and it has to appear as a separate line item on the receipt whether you bought in a store or online. Look at the receipt for your current bed and you will find it.

Here is the consequence nobody spells out. That money buys the collection container at the drop-off site, the truck that hauls the container to a recycler, and the dismantling at the other end. The drop-off is therefore already paid for. Paying a company whose only job is to carry your mattress to a recycler is paying for the same service twice. The Council also reports it spends $1 million a year on illegal dumping work and another $1 million a year on recycling research, which is the rest of where the money goes.

What it isThe California mattress recycling fee, collected by the seller on every mattress, futon and foundation sold for use in California
Current amount$18.00 per unit for units sold on or after April 1, 2026, raised from $16.00 by the Mattress Recycling Council
Charged perUnit, regardless of size or type
Sales taxThe Council states the fee is not subject to sales tax
On your receiptMust appear as a separate line item, in store or online
Who must collect itBrick-and-mortar retailers, online and marketplace sellers, and commercial volume sellers including hotels, boarding schools, colleges, nursing homes and medical centers
Where it goesRemitted in full to the Mattress Recycling Council, which uses the bulk of it for collection containers, transport to a recycler and dismantling
If you never recycleYou still pay it. The fee applies to every mattress and box spring sold in California
If you never paid itYou can still use the program. In California any mattress or box spring can be dropped off regardless of its condition or when it was bought
Who audits the programCalRecycle, which approves the Council's stewardship plan, annual report and budget
Scale in CaliforniaThe Council reports 14.2 million mattresses collected since 2016 and more than 240 permanent drop-off locations statewide

Sources: Mattress Recycling Council, 2026 California mattress recycling fee adjustment, MRC, California program, Bye Bye Mattress FAQ and CalRecycle, Mattress Product Management. Read September 11, 2026.

Confirmed free sites

Where to drop a mattress free in LA County

Los Angeles County Public Works counts nearly twenty permanent mattress recycling collection centers across the county, and the Bye Bye Mattress locator is the list the county points at. Every site in the table below was read off that locator today, along with its per-visit cap and its opening hours. Sites that the locator flags as closed to the public, such as the Culver City Transfer Station, are not in the table.

Three things to know before you drive. First, the caps are real and they vary a lot: one household gets ten units at the Monrovia gate and one mattress plus one box spring at the Burbank Recycle Center. Second, most of these are working transfer stations and recycling yards, not retail counters, so call before you load if your load is unusual. Third, nobody is going to help you unload. Long Beach says so outright about its yard.

On what qualifies, what California accepts is specific. Mattresses and foundations discarded by California consumers qualify, and condition and purchase date do not matter. A futon mattress counts in California if it separates from the frame. What does not qualify: bed frames, futon frames, sofa beds, crib and bassinet mattresses, mattress pads, toppers, pillows, cushions, loose bedding, sleeping bags, roll-away beds, and air or water mattresses with no upholstery material in them.

Free mattress drop-off sites confirmed in Los Angeles County, September 11, 2026
SiteCity and addressTakes fromCap per visitHours
Long Beach Public Works, Chester YardLong Beach, 970 W. Chester PlaceLong Beach residentsNo limit publishedOpen 24 hours, 7 days. Nobody on site to help unload
Republic Services, Compton Transfer StationLos Angeles, 2509 W. Rosecrans AveResidents and businesses5 units per vehicle6:00am–5:30pm Mon–Fri
Republic Services, East LA Transfer StationLos Angeles, 1512 N. Bonnie Beach PlResidents and businesses4 units per vehicle6:00am–5:00pm Mon–Fri
Republic Services, American Transfer StationGardena, 1449 W. Rosecrans AveResidents5 units5:00am–5:00pm Mon–Sat
Republic Services, Bel Art Transfer StationLong Beach, 2495 E. 68th St.Residents free; business fees apply5 units5:00am–4:30pm Mon–Fri, to 12:30pm Sat
Innovative Waste ControlVernon, 4133 Bandini BlvdResidents and businesses5 units per vehicle5:00am–5:00pm Mon–Fri, to 2:00pm Sat
Cristal MaterialsLos Angeles, 6825 McKinley AveResidents and businesses5 residential; commercial unlimited6:00am–3:00pm Mon–Fri
Cristal Materials, Corvette StreetCommerce, 6465 Corvette StResidents and businesses5 residential; commercial by appointment7:00am–2:00pm Mon–Fri
Burbank Recycle CenterBurbank, 500 S. Flower StBurbank residents only1 mattress and 1 box spring per household8:00am–5:00pm Mon–Fri, to 4:00pm Sat
Paramount Resource RecyclingParamount, 7230 Petterson LaneResidents free; business fees apply4 units6:00am–6:00pm Mon–Fri, 8:00am–4:00pm Sat
Comfort Bedding ManufacturingLynwood, 11680 Wright RdResidents and businesses8 units per vehicle8:00am–2:00pm Mon–Fri
Goodwill, Fletcher SquareLos Angeles, 3150 N. San Fernando RdResidents2 units9:00am–4:00pm, 7 days
Nu-Way, Monrovia Mattress DropMonrovia, 145 W. Duarte RdResidents and businesses10 units per household9:00am–2:00pm Mon–Fri. Call at the gate
Grand Central Recycling and TransferCity of Industry, 17445 Railroad StResidents and businesses10 units8:00am–4:00pm Mon–Fri, to 1:00pm Sat
Grand Central, Pomona ValleyPomona, 1371 E. Ninth StResidents and businesses10 units6:00am–5:00pm Mon–Fri, to 1:00pm Sat
R5 RecyclingAzusa, 739 N. Georgia AveResidents and businesses; an incentive payment location5 residential7:00am–3:00pm Mon–Fri
Gateway MattressMontebello, 624 S. Vail AveResidents and businesses; a renovatorNot published8:30am–3:00pm Mon–Fri
Antelope Valley LandfillPalmdale, 1200 W. City Ranch RdResidents free; business fees apply5 units6:00am–5:00pm Mon–Fri, 7:00am–4:00pm Sat
Lancaster Landfill and Recycling CenterLancaster, 600 E. Avenue FResidents free; business fees apply5 units8:00am–3:30pm Mon–Fri, to noon Sat, to 4:00pm Sun
Santa Clarita YardSanta Clarita, 26000 Springbrook AveSanta Clarita residents3 units8:00am–5:00pm Mon–Fri, to noon Sat

Source: every site, cap and opening hour above was read off the Mattress Recycling Council’s Bye Bye Mattress locator for Los Angeles on September 11, 2026, with the Burbank hours confirmed against the City of Burbank Recycle Center and the Long Beach yard against the City of Long Beach 24/7 Mattress Drop-Off page.

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On the job
A large curbside pile on a Los Angeles County street: a stained mattress on its side, dining chairs, collapsed cartons, black bags and loose trash spread across the sidewalk in front of the houses
The kind of curbside pile we clear in one visit
Our dump trailer loaded with mixed construction debris at dusk: cut timber, baseboard, a paint bucket, crates and broken fixtures stacked above the tailgate on a Los Angeles County job
A mixed construction load, ready for the transfer station
A weathered wrought-iron and timber coffee table and matching side table set out against a block wall on a Los Angeles County patio, waiting to be lifted away
Old patio furniture, lifted and gone

Our own crews on Los Angeles County jobs. Side yards, narrow walkways and the back of the property is where most of the work actually happens.

The route with no driving

Free curbside pickup, city by city

If the mattress is not going in your car, the other free route is the one your city already runs. In the City of Los Angeles, LA Sanitation and Environment describes bulky-item collection in its own words as an unlimited curbside service at no additional charge, and mattresses and box springs are named on its accepted list. There is no annual cap and no per-item charge. It runs on your regular trash day, so the only real constraint is the calendar.

Step over a city line and the deal changes. Burbank puts a special handling fee on a mattress. Long Beach gives you twelve collections a year and runs a yard you can use at three in the morning. Inglewood gives apartment buildings the same free service houses get, which the City of Los Angeles does not. Find your row, and for the full bulky-item comparison across thirteen area programs see our bulky-item pickup by city guide.

  1. 1

    Say the words “one mattress and one box spring”

    LASAN asks for an itemized list when you book so it sends a correctly sized truck. A bed and its foundation are two items, not one, and saying so is what stops the box spring being left on the parkway.

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    Book at least one business day before your regular trash day

    Through the LASAN service request form, the MyLA311 app, or the 24-hour Customer Care Center on 1-800-773-2489. Collection happens on your normal trash day, not on demand.

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    Put it at the curb the night before

    Clear of parked cars, hydrants and your own bins, and not blocking the sidewalk. Every program in this county is curbside only; no city crew comes inside, up stairs or into a garage.

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    Or drive it to a free LASAN drop-off Saturday

    Five city yards open one Saturday a month from 8:00am to 4:30pm and take bulky items with no appointment. The 2026 dates left are September 19, October 10, November 21 and December 12.

Curbside mattress collection compared across Los Angeles County
Where you liveWhat a mattress costsHow much and how oftenHow to bookWhat to know
City of Los Angeles, 1 to 4 unitsFreeUnlimited, no annual cap and no published per-request item limitLASAN online form, MyLA311, or 1-800-773-2489 at least one business day aheadMattresses and box springs are named on the accepted list. Collected on your regular trash day
City of Los Angeles, 5 units and upBilled through the Multi-family Bulky Item Fee on the LADWP billUnlimited, on demandThrough the building's recycLA service provider, or LASAN on 1-800-773-2489Not the free single-family route. LADWP Lifeline and EZ-SAVE customers may qualify for a discount or exemption
BurbankA $12.14 special handling fee per mattress or box spring, charged by the City of Burbank to your Burbank Water and Power accountNot publishedOur Burbank 311 at least two business days ahead with a photo, or (818) 238-3800 at least one business day aheadOnly the Burbank Water and Power account holder may schedule it. Free alternative: one mattress and one box spring per household at the Recycle Center
Long BeachFree12 special collections per calendar year, up to 8 large items eachOnline special collection request or (562) 570-2876Do not stack other items on top of a mattress. Items out by 6:00am on the confirmed day. The Chester Place yard is also open 24/7
InglewoodFreeUnlimited bulky pickups a year, for single-family and multi-family alike(800) 299-4898 or Public Works on (310) 412-5333, at least 24 hours aheadMattresses are named on the bulky list. Bulky pickups are not scheduled during Operation Clean Sweep
Beverly HillsFree from the alley. $91.86 charged by the City of Beverly Hills if it is collected from the parkway in front of the house2 items per requestOnline form, askBH, or 310-285-1000 weekdays 8:00am to 5:00pmCity refuse customers only. Pickup within 24 to 72 business hours
Culver CityFreeNot published for mattresses specificallyCall the city on (310) 253-6400The Bye Bye Mattress directory lists the Culver City Transfer Station as not open for public drop-off and directs residents to book a pickup instead
Unincorporated LA CountyFree from most haulersSet by the hauler holding your area's contractThe number on your monthly bill or on the side of your cart, or 1-888-CLEAN-LACounty Public Works says most haulers serving unincorporated areas, Garbage Disposal Districts and residential franchise areas provide free bulky-item pickup

Sources: LASAN, Schedule a Bulky Item Pickup, LASAN, Multi-family Bulky Item Fee, City of Burbank, Bulky Item Pick-Up, City of Long Beach, Special Collection 101, City of Inglewood, Waste Collection, City of Beverly Hills, Bulky Item Pick-up and LA County Public Works, Countywide Mattress Recycling Program. Read September 11, 2026.

The line that trips people

Your building decides which program you have

This is the rule that sends more people down the wrong road than any other, and it is invisible from the sidewalk. In the City of Los Angeles the free bulky route is written for homes of one to four units. At five units the address stops being residential for waste purposes and becomes a recycLA address, served under the city's exclusive franchise system by an assigned hauler rather than by LASAN trucks.

LASAN publishes the definition it works from, taken from the state regulations: a multifamily residential dwelling of fewer than five units is not a commercial business. Five units and up is. At that point bulky collection is still available and still unlimited, but it is paid for through the Multi-family Bulky Item Fee, which appears on the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power bill rather than being free at the point of use. The City Council approved an adjustment to that fee in October 2025 and it took effect that November.

The practical version. In a duplex or a fourplex, call 311 and it is free. In a thirty-unit building, the collection belongs to the building's contract, so call the property manager or the recycLA hauler named at the top of the building's service bill. And in the meantime, a mattress set beside the dumpster in the garage of a building that has not booked a pickup is not a favor to anyone; it is illegal dumping, and the section below covers what that costs. This also cuts the other way outside the city: Inglewood gives multi-family customers of five units or more the same free bulky pickup as houses, through its franchise hauler.

1 to 4 units, City of LALASAN single-family route. Free, unlimited, booked on 1-800-773-2489 or MyLA311
5 or more units, City of LAA recycLA address. Bulky collection runs through the assigned franchise service provider
What pays for itThe Multi-family Bulky Item Fee, billed on the LADWP bill rather than charged at collection
The definition LASAN usesA multifamily residential dwelling of fewer than five units is not a commercial business, per the state regulations LASAN quotes
Who the haulers areAthens Services, CalMet Services, NASA Services, Republic Services, Universal Waste Systems and Waste Management, by zone
Program sizeLASAN reports recycLA serves over 66,000 commercial, industrial, educational, apartment and condo customers
Financial assistanceLASAN publishes a potential 31.25% discount for low-income customers and a possible 100% exemption for Lifeline customers, applied automatically to existing enrollees
Who to call in a big buildingYour property manager or the recycLA service provider named on the building's bill, not the residential 311 route

Sources: LASAN, recycLA and LASAN, Multi-family Bulky Item Fee. Read September 11, 2026.

Two routes people forget

Retailer take-back, and who actually takes a used bed

If a new mattress is being delivered, stop reading and use this. California law requires the retailer to offer to take back your old mattress at no additional cost when it delivers the new one. The Bye Bye Mattress retailer pick-up FAQ sets out the details: the retailer has up to 30 days to collect it, delivery and setup fees for the new product can still apply, and the retailer may refuse a unit that is contaminated and poses a risk to staff, products or equipment. That decision is the retailer's alone, and the recycling fee is not refunded if they refuse. Los Angeles County Public Works states the same requirement covers online sellers. One thing worth knowing: the law makes the retailer take it back, but it does not require them to recycle it, so it is a fair question to ask at the counter.

Now donation, which is where most of the bad advice on this subject lives. A used mattress is one of the hardest things to give away in Los Angeles, and the honest answer is that you should call the specific location before you load anything. The Salvation Army lists mattresses among the gently used, unbroken furniture its thrift stores accept, and it schedules free home pickup for furniture donations. It also says plainly that because local ordinances and local need vary from location to location, the only reliable way to find out what your area takes is to call 800-SA-TRUCK first. Treat a yes from the national list as a maybe from your local store.

Goodwill Southern California is the instructive contrast. It accepts items in good condition that can be sold as is, it does not list mattresses among the categories it names, and it does not offer free collection at all: its pickup partner charges a fee. And yet one Goodwill location in Los Angeles, Fletcher Square on North San Fernando Road, appears in the Bye Bye Mattress directory as a free mattress drop-off with a two-unit cap. That is recycling, not resale. It is a useful reminder that the charity sign on the building tells you nothing about which program is running behind it.

On condition. For the recycling route, condition is not a barrier at all: Bye Bye Mattress in California accepts any mattress or box spring from a California consumer regardless of condition or purchase date. For the donation route, condition is the whole question, and anything stained, torn, soaked or carrying an infestation is not a donation, it is a recycling job. If a unit is infested, wrap and seal it before it leaves the room rather than carrying it uncovered through a hallway, tell the site what you are bringing, and call ahead: the Mattress Recycling Council directs anyone whose retailer refused a contaminated unit back to their public works department or waste hauler for instructions.

What skipping all this costs

Leaving it in the alley is a criminal offense

Every route above is free, which is what makes the alternative so hard to defend. California Penal Code 374.3 makes it unlawful to dump waste matter on a public or private road, on private property without the owner's consent, or in a public park. A violation is an infraction, and the sentence people miss is the next one: each day the waste remains in place is a separate violation.

The fines are mandatory, not discretionary, and they escalate. The court can also order you to remove the waste or pay the cost of removal, and can order you to spend at least twelve hours picking up waste somewhere in its jurisdiction. The statute has a second tier for commercial quantities, which it defines as waste generated in the course of a trade, business, profession or occupation, or an amount equal to or greater than one cubic yard. That tier is a misdemeanor carrying jail time. A landlord clearing four units, or a contractor stripping a house, is squarely in it.

Inside the City of Los Angeles there is a municipal layer on top. The Los Angeles City Controller's audit of illegal dumping sets out that Municipal Code section 66.25 bars dumping solid waste on any street or in the Los Angeles River, and that the City Attorney's Administrative Citation Enforcement program, a noncriminal route that assesses fines rather than making arrests, fines those violations $250 to $500 for a first offense, $500 to $750 for a second, and $1,000 for a third or later one. The audit also records that LASAN's Environmental Enforcement and Emergency Response Unit is the city's lead illegal dumping investigator, with the LAPD formally designating it the primary law enforcement authority for these crimes.

And if it is someone else's mattress on your street, report it. LASAN takes illegal dumping reports at myla311.lacity.org or on 1-800-773-2489 around the clock, and tracks every cleanup request through MyLA311. It also runs CleanStat, a street-by-street survey of the entire city at least twice a year that specifically scans for mattresses among the unreported items it logs, and hands those locations to collection crews. For the fuller picture see our guide to illegal dumping fines and reporting.

The statuteCalifornia Penal Code 374.3
The offenseAn infraction. Each day the waste remains is a separate violation
First convictionA mandatory fine of not less than $250 and not more than $1,000
Second convictionA mandatory fine of $500 to $1,500
Third or laterA mandatory fine of $750 to $3,000
Commercial quantitiesWaste generated in the course of a trade or business, or one cubic yard or more: a misdemeanor, up to six months in county jail plus a mandatory fine starting at $1,000
On top of the fineThe court may order removal or the cost of removal, and may order at least 12 hours of picking up waste
City of LA municipal layerLAMC 66.25 bars dumping solid waste on any street or in the Los Angeles River. Administrative Citation Enforcement fines run $250 to $500, then $500 to $750, then $1,000
Who investigates in LALASAN's Environmental Enforcement and Emergency Response Unit, designated by the LAPD as the primary authority
How to report onemyla311.lacity.org or 1-800-773-2489, 24 hours

Sources: California Penal Code 374.3, Los Angeles City Controller, Piling Up: Addressing L.A.’s Illegal Dumping Problem and LASAN, Cleanup of Illegal Dumping. Read September 11, 2026.

Being straight about it

When paying someone is the right call

We are a junk removal company that has just spent two thousand words explaining how to avoid needing one. That is deliberate, and it is worth being equally plain about where the free routes stop working.

The stairs. No program on this page comes inside. Not LASAN, not Burbank, not Long Beach, not a transfer station. A queen mattress and its box spring coming down three flights of a walk-up in Koreatown or Palms is a two-person job with a turn at every landing, and the free service covers the last ten feet of it. If you cannot do that part, free is a word on a webpage.

No vehicle. Half the drop-off sites in the table are genuinely useful and half of them are useless to you if what you have is a sedan. A mattress on a roof with rope is how mattresses end up on the 101, and the curbside route is the better answer if you can wait for it.

The clock. LASAN needs one business day and collects on your regular trash day. Burbank needs one to two. Beverly Hills quotes 24 to 72 business hours. If the lease ends Saturday, escrow closes Friday, or the new bed is being delivered this afternoon into a room that still has the old one in it, none of those numbers help.

Volume. One bed is a free problem. A four-bedroom house being cleared, a small apartment building turning over, or an estate cleanout where every room has a bed in it runs straight into the caps: four units at Paramount, five at most Republic yards, two at Goodwill, one mattress and one box spring at Burbank.

Contamination. If a retailer refused the unit, or there is an infestation, the handling matters and the wrapping matters, and most people would rather not do that in their own hallway.

If none of those apply to you, take the free route. Genuinely. Book the pickup on 1-800-773-2489 or drive to the nearest yard in the table and you are done for nothing. If one of them does apply, that is the job we do: mattress removal across the county, including Burbank, Long Beach and Culver City, with the full list of areas we cover. We agree a number with you before anything is lifted, and if your own city will haul it free instead, we will say so first.

Worth knowing

The six things worth remembering

What to know
  1. The California mattress recycling fee rose to $18.00 per unit for mattresses, futons and foundations sold on or after April 1, 2026, and is collected by the retailer at purchase rather than at disposal.
  2. Dropping a mattress at a Bye Bye Mattress collection site in California costs nothing, and the site takes it regardless of its condition or when it was bought.
  3. LA Sanitation collects mattresses and box springs free at the curb in the City of Los Angeles with no annual cap, booked at least one business day before your regular trash day on 1-800-773-2489.
  4. In the City of Los Angeles the free bulky route covers homes of one to four units; five units or more is a recycLA address billed through the Multi-family Bulky Item Fee on the LADWP bill.
  5. California law requires a mattress retailer to offer to take back your old mattress at no additional cost when it delivers a new one, with up to 30 days to collect it.
  6. Leaving a mattress on a street or in an alley is an infraction under California Penal Code 374.3 carrying a mandatory fine of $250 to $1,000 on a first conviction, and every day it stays is a separate violation.
Where this comes from

Sources

Every rule, fee, limit and deadline on this page is from the body that sets it. Checked on the date above; if a city changes its program we change the page.

  1. Mattress Recycling Council — 2026 California mattress recycling fee adjustmentThe rise from $16.00 to $18.00 per unit for units sold on or after April 1, 2026, the per-unit basis, the sales-tax exemption, the separate line item on the receipt and who must collect it.
  2. Mattress Recycling Council — California programBye Bye Mattress as the no-cost consumer route, 14.2 million mattresses collected since 2016, more than 240 permanent drop-off locations, and the $1 million a year each on illegal dumping work and research.
  3. CalRecycle — Mattress Product ManagementCalifornia's mattress stewardship program, CalRecycle's oversight role and the Mattress Recycling Council's status as the stewardship organization created by manufacturers, renovators and retailers.
  4. Bye Bye Mattress — Find a facility: Los AngelesEvery drop-off site in the comparison table: name, address, who it takes from, the per-visit unit cap and the published opening hours.
  5. Bye Bye Mattress — What is accepted and unaccepted in CaliforniaMattresses and foundations qualify regardless of condition or purchase date; the list of unaccepted items including bed frames, futon frames, sofa beds, crib mattresses, toppers and pads.
  6. Bye Bye Mattress — Frequently asked questionsThat the fee is owed whether or not you recycle, and that in California any mattress or box spring can be dropped off no matter when it was purchased.
  7. Bye Bye Mattress — California retailer pick-up FAQThe retailer take-back requirement on delivery at no additional cost, the 30-day window, the right to refuse a contaminated unit, and that the fee is not refunded.
  8. LA Sanitation & Environment — Schedule a Bulky Item PickupThe unlimited curbside service at no additional charge, mattresses and box springs on the accepted list, the one-business-day notice, 1-800-773-2489, and the 2026 monthly drop-off Saturdays and yards.
  9. LA Sanitation & Environment — Multi-family Bulky Item FeeThat recycLA ratepayers pay for bulky collection through a fee on the LADWP bill, the October 2025 council-approved adjustment, and the Lifeline and low-income discounts.
  10. LA Sanitation & Environment — recycLAThe one-to-four-unit line, the state definition that a multifamily dwelling of fewer than five units is not a commercial business, the six franchise service providers and the 66,000 customers.
  11. LA Sanitation & Environment — Cleanup of Illegal DumpingReporting through myla311.lacity.org or 1-800-773-2489 around the clock, and the CleanStat survey that scans every neighborhood at least twice a year and names mattresses among the items it logs.
  12. City of Burbank — Bulky Item Pick-UpThe $12.14 special handling fee per mattress or box spring in force since July 1, 2025, billed to the Burbank Water and Power account, bookable only by the account holder, and the booking lead times.
  13. City of Burbank — Burbank Recycle CenterThe address at 500 S. Flower St, the Burbank-residents-only rule and the published drop-off hours, closed weekends beyond Saturday and on city holidays.
  14. City of Long Beach — 24/7 Mattress Drop-OffThe year-round, round-the-clock free drop-off at 970 W. Chester Place for Long Beach residents, that box springs are also taken, that no staff are on site to unload, and the roughly 18,000 mattresses dumped in the city each year.
  15. City of Long Beach — Special Collection 101Twelve special collections a year at no additional cost, up to eight large items per pickup, the 6:00am set-out, (562) 570-2876, and the instruction not to stack items on a mattress.
  16. City of Inglewood — Waste CollectionUnlimited free bulky-item pickups for single-family and multi-family customers alike, mattresses named on the list, the 24-hour notice, and the Operation Clean Sweep blackout.
  17. City of Beverly Hills — Bulky Item Pick-upFree collection from the alley, the $91.86 charge by the City of Beverly Hills for a parkway pickup, the two-item limit and the 24-to-72-business-hour window.
  18. Los Angeles County Public Works — Countywide Mattress Recycling ProgramNearly twenty permanent collection centers countywide, free bulky pickup from most haulers in unincorporated areas and Garbage Disposal Districts, the retailer take-back requirement and the collection-event calendar.
  19. California Penal Code section 374.3The prohibition itself, the infraction, that each day the waste remains is a separate violation, the mandatory fine tiers, the removal and cleanup orders, and the commercial-quantities misdemeanor.
  20. Los Angeles City Controller — Piling Up: Addressing L.A.'s Illegal Dumping ProblemLAMC 66.25 and what it bars, the Administrative Citation Enforcement fine ranges, and LASAN's Environmental Enforcement and Emergency Response Unit as the city's lead investigator.
  21. The Salvation Army — Donation FAQMattresses listed among the gently used, unbroken furniture thrift stores accept, the free furniture pickup service, and the warning that acceptance varies by location so you should call 800-SA-TRUCK first.
  22. Goodwill Southern California — Donation FAQsThat Goodwill accepts items in good condition that can be sold as is, and that it does not offer free collection: its pickup partner charges a fee.

If you would rather not do it yourself

Same crew, one visit, one number agreed before anything is lifted.

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The follow-up questions people ask after this one.

Is mattress disposal free in Los Angeles County?

Yes, by at least one route everywhere in the county. The recycling is funded by the California mattress recycling fee that the retailer charged you at purchase, so drop-off at a Bye Bye Mattress site costs nothing. On top of that, most cities collect mattresses at the curb free, and in the City of Los Angeles that collection is unlimited with no annual cap.

Will the City of Los Angeles pick up a mattress?

Yes. LA Sanitation names mattresses and box springs on its accepted bulky-item list and describes the service as unlimited curbside collection at no additional charge. Book at least one business day before your regular trash day on 1-800-773-2489, through MyLA311 or on the online service request form, and give an itemized list so the right truck is sent.

Does the store have to take my old mattress when they deliver the new one?

In California the retailer must offer to take back your old mattress at no additional cost when it delivers a new one. It has up to 30 days to collect it, delivery and setup charges for the new product can still apply, and it may refuse a unit that is contaminated and poses a risk to staff or equipment. The recycling fee is not refunded if it refuses.

Can I drop off a mattress that is old, stained or broken?

For recycling, yes. The Mattress Recycling Council states that in California any mattress or box spring can be dropped off regardless of its condition or when it was purchased, and it does not matter whether the recycling fee was ever paid on that particular unit. For donation the opposite is true: condition is the whole question and damaged units are refused.

Why can I not use the free pickup in my apartment building?

Because of the unit count. In the City of Los Angeles the free single-family route covers homes of one to four units. A building of five units or more is a recycLA address, and its bulky collection runs through the assigned franchise hauler and is paid for through the Multi-family Bulky Item Fee on the LADWP bill. Ask your property manager, not 311.

What is the fine for leaving a mattress on the street in Los Angeles?

Under California Penal Code 374.3 it is an infraction carrying a mandatory fine of $250 to $1,000 on a first conviction, rising on later ones, and each day the mattress remains counts as a separate violation. The court can also order you to pay for its removal. In the City of Los Angeles, Municipal Code 66.25 adds a separate administrative citation route.

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