Every year millions of mattresses end up thrown away, and until about 2018 most of them still went to landfill or incineration. Modern mattress recycling plants can actually recover more than 95% of a mattress by weight.
Steel springs get shredded, baled, and sent straight back to steel foundries to be re-rolled. Memory foam and polyurethane can be granulated into carpet underlay, animal bedding, or soundproofing panels. Textile ticking goes back into wadding, insulating rolls, or fibre cement boards.
The reason this matters: it's illegal for an unlicensed man-with-a-van to just dump a mattress, but people still do it, and it's usually the householder who gets landed with the £400 fixed-penalty notice. Using a licensed carrier with proper Waste Transfer Notes protects you.
We take them as a standalone rubbish removal in Brixton item, as part of furniture disposal in Kensington, and inside larger house clearances in Battersea.
Every mattress job booked through The Junk Squad comes with a full electronic waste transfer note sent straight to your email.
