Recycling Your Old Mattress





Mattresses can be a pain to get rid of, they are big, bulky, and a bit of an eye-sore if left outside. When disposed of properly, ie hiring a skip bin and putting the mattress in, the cost is $30 on top of the skip hire fee.





Some councils in Adelaide are able to assist in collecting your old mattress, but you may have to wait a while.





All the components of the mattress are actually recyclable - the inner metal springs are sold on to metal merchants and melted down to be sold on again to the industrial or manufacturing industries and reused to make buildings, infrastructure, car components etc. The foam, latex and wadding in the mattress is recycled into carpet underlay.



