Mattress Disposal in Tampa
Old mattresses and box springs hauled off and recycled — not left leaning against your garage wall for months.
Old mattresses and box springs hauled off and recycled — not left leaning against your garage wall for months.
Buying the new mattress is the easy part. Figuring out what happens to the old one is where most people get stuck — it won't fold small enough for the trash can, and the truck that empties your bin on collection day isn't equipped to take it either. So it sits, propped against a wall in the garage or shoved into a spare room, for weeks longer than anyone planned. Mattress disposal is one of the single-item jobs we run most often across Tampa, and more often than not it's booked the same week the new one shows up on the delivery truck.
There's a real mechanical reason mattresses get pulled out of the normal waste stream, not just a rule someone made up. A garbage truck's compactor is designed to crush loose bags and rigid boxes into a tight load — it's not built for a mattress. The steel coils inside resist getting flattened, and once they're partway compressed they tend to spring back and catch on the compactor's blade or ram. A box spring does the same thing for the same reason. One jammed mattress on a route with fifty stops can stall the whole truck until a crew climbs in and clears it by hand, which is exactly why Hillsborough County routes it as bulk trash on a separate collection schedule instead of the weekly can — you can't just set it at the curb on a Tuesday and expect it gone by Wednesday. Left waiting for that scheduled pickup, a mattress turns into a yard eyesore for weeks at a stretch. Booking a dedicated hauler skips that wait altogether.
Mattresses and box springs in every size, twin through California king, along with adjustable frames and foundations. Our crew carries the set out from wherever it's parked — a second-floor bedroom in a Hyde Park bungalow, a guest room in a Brandon two-story, a garage in South Tampa — without scraping it down your walls or banging it against the stairwell on the way out. It's common to pair this with furniture removal or a full estate cleanout, though just as many Tampa customers book it standalone: new mattress just got delivered, and the old one needs to be gone before the delivery guys are even back in the truck.
A mattress is never just one material — it's layers of steel, foam, wood, and fabric stitched together, which is exactly why it's worth taking apart rather than burying whole. Once a set reaches our recycling partner, it goes through a real breakdown process instead of straight into a landfill trench:
Splitting the mattress into those four streams — steel, foam, wood, fabric — is what keeps one queen-size set from taking up landfill space for the next several decades. That sorting happens entirely on our end; it's nothing you have to arrange.
If a mattress has bed bugs, dust mites, or any other pest problem, just tell us when you book. It comes up more than you'd think, and it never changes whether we'll take the mattress — only how we handle it. A mattress with an active infestation gets wrapped and sealed in plastic on-site before it ever gets near the truck, so nothing migrates into the vehicle or ends up on another customer's load picked up later that same day. Already bagged when we arrive? Even better, that saves our crew a step. The only real problem is silence — an unflagged infestation loaded loose next to someone else's furniture is how pests hop between jobs, and that's precisely what the wrap-and-bag step is there to stop. Mentioning it up front is routine for us, never judged, and it's the simplest way to keep the pickup smooth for you and for whoever's items ride the truck behind yours.
Mattress disposal in Tampa runs $85 to $180 per set, and a handful of factors decide where your particular job lands in that range:
None of that requires you to guess at anything — send a photo or a few quick details with your quote request and we'll hand you a flat price before we ever show up at the door.
Mattress disposal runs at the same flat per-set pricing across every neighborhood we cover, from Tampa proper out to Brandon and Riverview. Check the full service area list to confirm coverage for your city.
Mattress Disposal is available same-day across Tampa and these nearby Hillsborough County communities:
Plan on $85–$140 for a single mattress and box spring set, with the exact number depending on size. Book more than one set in the same stop and each additional set is priced with a bundled discount already folded into the quote.
Mattresses go to a recycling partner that breaks each one down into steel, foam, and fabric so those materials get reused, rather than burying the whole unit in a landfill cell.
In most cases, yes. A mattress-only pickup is a short stop that slots easily into our same-day routes across Tampa and the surrounding Hillsborough County suburbs when you get us on the phone before early afternoon.
Yes. Our crew goes and gets it wherever it sits — upstairs bedroom, guest room, whatever the case — so you never have to drag it down a staircase yourself.
We will, but flag the issue when you book. Knowing ahead of time lets us bag it correctly so the pickup stays safe for our crew and for your home.
Definitely — plenty of Tampa homeowners pair a mattress pickup with furniture removal or a full garage cleanout so it all goes out in one visit for one flat price.
Yes — adjustable frames and foundations ride along under the same flat mattress-set rate, no separate charge.
Every standard size, twin up through California king, all at the same flat per-set price.
Not unless there is a specific hygiene concern to flag ahead of time — otherwise our crew handles it exactly as it sits.
Yes, at the same flat pricing across all fifteen areas we serve — check the full service area list to confirm your city.
It is — a mattress by itself sits at the low end of the $85–$180 range. Add a box spring or foundation and the price ticks up slightly, since that is one more bulky piece to carry out and recycle.
Not on price — foam and innerspring mattresses cost the same to haul away. They just take different paths once they hit the recycler: foam gets shredded into padding and insulation, while innerspring sets have their steel coils pulled and sold off as scrap metal.
That is fine, just tell us about it when you book. Treat it the same as a pest issue — a heads-up lets our crew bag it properly before it ever touches the truck.
Free quotes, flat pricing, and same-day pickup across Tampa and Hillsborough County.