Recycle Your Old Mattress Mattress recycling at Sanitary Fill Company. A forklift moves mattresses and loads them into a truck. Old mattresses are now being separated for recycling at the Public Disposal and Recycling Area at 501 Tunnel Avenue in San Francisco. Recycling workers in San Francisco keep old mattresses separate from other waste and ship them to a mattress recycling facility in San Leandro where they are dissembled. Foam padding is made into new padding.
Wood is shipped to biomass plants and burned to generate electricity.
Metal goes to a scrap yard and a foundry. You may also recycle mattresses by taking advantage of Sunset Scavenger Company's on-call bulky item collection program. Now you get two days per calendar year for the collection of bulky items that won't fit in your trash container. This new, on-call service means you can call throughout the year to schedule an appointment that best fits your needs. Old appliances such as washers, dryers, stoves, etc., can be disassembled and recycled.