Mattresses, box springs and foundations taken out of Long Beach apartments, houses, towers and rentals, carried down whatever is between the bedroom and the street, and routed into the state recycling program. Free upfront quote first.
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Long Beach residents drop mattresses and box springs free at 970 W. Chester Place, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with no forms and no preparation required. What no free route covers is the carry: a king-size bed down a courtyard stair or out of a downtown tower, quoted free upfront.
Long Beach is unusually well served on mattresses, and it is worth knowing before you pay anyone. The city runs its own 24/7 Mattress Drop-Off at 970 W. Chester Place, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, free to Long Beach residents and funded by the city's Refuse Fund; box springs are accepted, no forms are needed and no preparation is required. Mattresses are also eligible on the free Special Collection program, where nothing may be placed on top of a mattress and everything must be at your regular collection point by 6 a.m. on the confirmed day. Behind both sits California's statewide program, run by the Mattress Recycling Council under CalRecycle oversight and funded by a fee collected at the point of sale that rises to $18.00 per unit for sales on or after April 1, 2026. What none of those routes include is the part most people actually need: getting a king-size bed down a courtyard stair or out of a downtown tower. Los Angeles Junk Removal & Hauling does that, on a free upfront quote.
There are two honest conversations about a mattress. The first is where it ends up, and in California that has been settled for years: the recycling was paid for when the bed was bought, and Long Beach has built one of the most convenient drop-off arrangements in the region on top of it. The second is how it gets out of the room, and nothing about the first conversation helps with the second.
So this page covers both properly: the city's own round-the-clock drop-off and who it is for, what the state program does and does not cover, and what actually happens between a second-floor bedroom off Broadway and the tailgate of a truck. The wider local picture is on junk removal in Long Beach, and our county-wide service is on mattress removal.
Long Beach does something almost no other city in the county does. Its Clean Team operates a 24/7 Mattress Drop-Off at 970 W. Chester Place, where residents can leave a used mattress in a clearly designated space at any hour of any day. There is no charge; the service is paid for out of the city's Refuse Fund. No forms, no appointment, no preparation — the city's own guidance is simply to place the mattress in the designated spot on site. Box springs are accepted as well. Two limits are worth reading before you load a car: it is open to Long Beach residents only, and staff are not on site to help you unload. If you have a truck, a helper and a bed that is not a king, that is an excellent free answer and we will say so.
The city is candid about why the program exists, and the number is startling. About 18,000 mattresses are illegally dumped in Long Beach each year, creating blight and the pest problems that go with it — rats and insects making homes in them. The 24/7 drop-off started as a pilot on 1 August 2024, took in 607 mattresses, and was made permanent in November 2024. It also frees the Clean Team to do other work instead of collecting beds out of alleys.
The second free route is the ordinary Special Collection, and mattresses are on the eligible list. Every City-serviced account gets 12 of those per calendar year at no additional cost, booked online or on (562) 570-2876, with up to 8 large items or 25 bags, bundles or boxes per pickup and two usable on the same day. The mattress-specific rule is short and often ignored: do not place other items on top of mattresses. Beyond that, the standard conditions apply — everything at your regular collection location by 6 a.m. on the confirmed pickup day and not before, incorrectly prepared items corrected and rescheduled rather than collected, and crews unable to enter private property.
That last line is why most Long Beach mattress calls happen. Neither free route comes into the building. The drop-off requires you to carry the bed to a vehicle and drive it across town. The Special Collection requires the bed to be standing at your collection point before dawn. A mattress is not heavy, but a king is over six feet in every direction that matters, it does not fold, and it does not negotiate a half-turn stair, a narrow courtyard gate or a passenger elevator with a diagonal ceiling. The bed is not the problem. The route out is.
Sources: City of Long Beach Public Works; Mattress Recycling Council. Cited in full below.
| City drop-off | 24/7 Mattress Drop-Off, 970 W. Chester Place — 24 hours a day, seven days a week |
|---|---|
| Cost | No charge to residents; paid for by the City of Long Beach Refuse Fund |
| Who may use it | Long Beach residents only |
| Also accepted there | Box springs. Other items are not currently accepted |
| Preparation | None. No forms; place the mattress in the designated space on site |
| Help unloading | None. Staff are not on site to assist |
| Curbside route | Mattresses are eligible on the free Special Collection, 12 per calendar year |
| The mattress rule | Do not place other items on top of mattresses |
| Set-out | At your regular collection location by 6 a.m. on the confirmed day, and not before |
| Access | Collection crews cannot enter private property |
| Why the program exists | About 18,000 mattresses are illegally dumped in Long Beach each year |
Sources: City of Long Beach Public Works, 24/7 Mattress Drop-Off; City of Long Beach, Special Collection 101.
Downtown is the clearest case. The Ocean Boulevard and East Village towers behave like commercial buildings even when the job is one bedroom: a freight elevator that has to be reserved, a loading dock window that may already be taken, a building manager who wants a certificate of insurance naming the right entity before a crew crosses the lobby, and restricted move-out hours. A mattress in a passenger elevator is a geometry problem rather than a weight problem, and in a lot of these buildings the answer is the freight car or the stairs. We arrange the booking with the manager before the truck is on Ocean, not while it is double-parked on it.
The second Long Beach pattern is the 1920s courtyard walk-up, and the city has a great deal of it — Alamitos Beach, Rose Park, the blocks either side of Fourth and Seventh. Interior stairs that turn on a landing barely deeper than a mattress is wide, a courtyard gate built for a bicycle, and a collection point that is the alley behind the building rather than the street out front. A queen usually flexes through. A king or a one-piece foundation often does not, and the honest options are the balcony rail on straps or taking the box spring apart. We decide that in front of you while quoting.
Third is the student and renter turnover around Cal State Long Beach and the Traffic Circle, where four beds leave a house on the same weekend and nobody has a vehicle bigger than a hatchback. That is exactly the job the city's 24/7 drop-off cannot solve, because the drop-off assumes you can get the mattress into a vehicle in the first place. Four mattresses and two box springs is one visit for us and six impossible car trips for you.
Fourth is the waterfront geography. In Naples and on the Peninsula the frontage is often a walkway rather than a driveable street, so the truck stops where it can legally stand and the crew makes the distance on foot. That is normal work here, it just takes longer than a driveway job of the same size, and it is the single most common reason a Long Beach quote differs from an identical-looking one three miles inland. If the bed is going because the whole unit is being cleared, see furniture removal in Long Beach, and if it has to be gone today see same-day junk removal in Long Beach.
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Our own crews on Los Angeles County jobs. The mattress removal we run in Long Beach looks like this too: side yards, narrow walkways and the back of the property is where the work actually is.
California's mattress stewardship program is run by the Mattress Recycling Council under CalRecycle oversight and funded by a recycling fee collected when a mattress is sold, not when it is thrown away. That fee moves from $16.00 to $18.00 per unit for sales on or after April 1, 2026, and it applies per unit to mattresses, futons and foundations sold for use in California regardless of size or type. In exchange, qualifying used mattresses and foundations are accepted at participating drop-off points at no additional cost, at more than 3,500 locations across the state. If you recycle a mattress yourself, you still paid the fee — so a bed should never be the item you pay a disposal gate by the ton for.
One detail of the California program is worth knowing because it is genuinely different from other states. In California, all mattresses and box springs can be dropped off at a participating location regardless of their condition or when they were purchased. The stricter condition rules that apply in Connecticut and Rhode Island — where a severely damaged, heavily soiled, moldy, excessively wet or infested unit has to be discussed with the drop-off location first — are not the California rule. A tired, stained mattress out of a rental is still a program mattress here.
What the program does not cover is a longer list than people expect, and it decides how we handle the rest of a bedroom. Accepted: mattresses of any construction, foundations and box springs, and futon mattresses that separate from the frame. Not accepted: bed frames, futon frames and bases, sofa beds, mattress pads and toppers, pillows, loose bedding, sleeping bags, cushions from furniture, air mattresses and water beds with no upholstery material, car beds, collapsible roll-away beds, juvenile products including crib and bassinet mattresses, mattresses stripped of their padding, and units that were not used in California. So a sleeper sofa is a sofa, a topper is not a mattress, and a crib mattress is its own conversation. All of those still leave on the same truck; they simply leave on a different route, and we tell you which is which while quoting.
Mechanically, a recycled mattress is dismantled and separated into steel, foam, fabric and wood. Long Beach sends the mattresses it collects to a Mattress Recycling Council facility where they are cut open and sorted by material type, about 75% of which is recyclable, and the components are repurposed into products such as carpet padding and construction materials. Statewide, CalRecycle reports 96.7% of collected mattresses went to beneficial reuse or processing in 2025. That is a better outcome than almost anything else on a moving day.
Bed bugs are the one case where the answer changes, and the right advice is not ours, it is the EPA's. If you throw out a mattress or furniture that has bed bugs in it, the EPA says you should slash or otherwise destroy it so that nobody else takes it and gets bed bugs. It also points out that throwing an infested mattress out is a poor way to control an infestation, because not all bed bugs live on the bed and a replacement is usually re-infested quickly. If that is your situation, tell us when you book. We wrap and handle those units so the problem does not travel through the building on the way out, and we would rather talk about it openly than pretend we did not notice.
Sources: Mattress Recycling Council, 2026 California mattress recycling fee adjustment; CalRecycle, Mattress Recycling Program; Bye Bye Mattress, what is accepted and unaccepted in California; Bye Bye Mattress, frequently asked questions; City of Long Beach Public Works, 24/7 Mattress Drop-Off; US EPA, top ten tips to prevent or control bed bugs.
Same rule in Long Beach as anywhere else in Los Angeles County. The local part is the program above, not the disposal law. Full detail on mattress removal.
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The city drop-off, the state program, the stairwell and the awkward exceptions.
If you are a Long Beach resident with a vehicle that will take the bed and somebody to help you lift it, yes, and we will tell you so on the phone. It is at 970 W. Chester Place, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, free, no forms, and box springs are accepted too. Two things to plan for: it is residents only, and staff are not there to help you unload. Call us when the bed is upstairs, when there are several of them, or when you have no way to move it.
Not at the point of drop-off. California's program is funded by a recycling fee collected when a mattress is sold — $18.00 per unit for sales on or after April 1, 2026, charged per unit whatever the size — so qualifying used mattresses and foundations are accepted at participating locations at no additional cost. What you would be paying us for is labor, transport and the carry out of the building, never the recycling itself, and the quote is free and given before anything moves.
In California, yes. The program states that mattresses and box springs qualify regardless of their condition or when they were purchased, which is different from the rules in some other states where a heavily soiled or badly damaged unit has to be cleared with the drop-off location first. A tired mattress out of a rental turnover is still a program mattress. Tell us what you have and we will route it properly rather than treating it as general waste.
Tell us when you book and we will plan the carry around it. The EPA's own advice is that a discarded infested mattress should be slashed or otherwise destroyed so nobody else takes it and gets bed bugs, and it also warns that throwing the bed out rarely solves an infestation on its own because not all bed bugs live on the bed. We wrap and handle those units so nothing spreads through a shared stairwell or elevator on the way out.
Yes, and it is routine work here. Buildings on and around Ocean Boulevard usually want a certificate of insurance on file, a freight elevator reservation and a dock window, and some restrict move-out hours. We arrange that with the building manager before the truck arrives. In the older courtyard walk-ups the answer is sometimes the stair rather than a corner, and occasionally a foundation has to come apart — that decision is made in front of you at the quote.
Yes, but they travel on a different route from the mattress. California's program covers mattresses, foundations and box springs, and separable futon mattresses. It does not cover bed frames, futon frames, sofa beds, pads and toppers, pillows, bedding, sleeping bags or crib mattresses. Those are handled as ordinary furniture or textiles, sorted for reuse where they are sound, and we will tell you which of your pieces is which while we are quoting.
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