The Department of Environmental Protection announced mattresses and box springs can be recycled at the Shady Grove Processing Facility and Transfer Station in Gaithersburg.
Acceptable items include:
- Adjustable base mattresses
- Hybrid mattresses – spring coils with multiple layers of foam
- Innerspring mattresses
- Latex mattresses
- Memory foam mattresses
- Metal and wood bed base foundations and/or box springs.
Unacceptable items include:
- Car bed
- Crib or bassinet mattress
- Fold out sofa bed or futon
- Juvenile products including:
- Carriage
- Crib bumper
- Dressing table
- Infant carrier
- Lounge pad
- Pads for juvenile products
- Playpen
- Stroller
- Pillows
- Products that contain liquid- or gaseous-filled ticking, including any adjustable water/gel/air bed/mattress that does not contain upholstery material between the ticking and the mattress core
- Sleeping bags
- Unattached pillow top/mattress topper/mattress pad/under pad, including any item with resilient filling, with or without ticking, that is intended to be used with, or on top of a mattress.
- Upholstered furniture that does not contain a detachable mattress
Your items also cannot be dirty, infested, broken, or wet. For more information, click here.
