Recycling Your Mattress in Phoenix

As the sixth most populous city in the United States, with over 4.7 million residents in the metro area, Phoenix, Arizona is home to lots of people, buildings, and furniture. It is also a location that now experiences what is known as “urban heat island” effects. Although there should be great fluctuations between daytime highs and nighttime lows, there is not a big difference in temperatures.

This means that temperatures are often very high for days and nights on end, and that means that – as indelicate as it seems – there are a lot of hot and sweaty people in Phoenix on a regular basis. It also means that any humidity is going to create discomfort too, and this adds up to many things, but key among them is that upholstered furnishings seem to get a lot of wear and tear.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in bedding. At any given time there are many mattresses in need of replacement, but there are some remarkable solutions for mattress disposal and recycling in Phoenix.

The Mattress & Box Spring Story

Did you know that the average mattress or box spring is given a lifespan of 7 to 10 years? That usually shocks people who know that their own mattress is well beyond that age. “But it’s still pretty comfortable,” you might say.

However, the materials from which that mattress was made will definitely have started to degrade within those seven years, and especially when living in the high heat and periods of humidity that are part of life in Phoenix.

What to do? Anyone who has ever replaced or even contemplated replacing a mattress and box spring knows one thing – these bulky, enormous items are a big challenge to get rid of.

You may be able to donate them to friends or charities, but most people don’t appreciate a well-worn mattress. You may be able to pay someone to come and haul it to a landfill, but that is not something that is all that earth-friendly, and it costs you.

The company from whom you buy a new mattress and box spring may offer free removal, but what do they do with it? It’s likely to end up in a landfill, and that is something that we can no longer afford to do to the planet.

Mattress Disposal & Recycling in Phoenix

The services here at Mattress Disposal Plus are an ideal answer. When you choose us as your provider of mattress removal and disposal in Phoenix, you get:

• Safe and guaranteed removal that includes lugging those hefty items out of the house without damaging doors, walls, and so on.
• You can rest assured that, as a high-quality provider of mattress removal and disposal in Phoenix, we also do all we can to make sure that your items never end up in a landfill.
• Mattress Disposal Plus always gives a set window of time for pickup and can take other furnishings too.
• We even offer commercial mattress disposal services!

Benefits of Mattress Disposal in Phoenix

Why should that matter? How much trouble can one mattress make for the planet?

Consider this little tidbit from an earth-friendly blogger who describes mattresses as a festival of:

“Toxic, cancer-causing chemicals…like polyurethane foam, formaldehyde, boric acid, antimony (a heavy metal similar to arsenic) and worst of all, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (also known as flame retardants)…” (DaNelle, 2013)

When you do not use proper mattress disposal and recycling in Phoenix, all of these harmful materials are able to leach their contents into an area roughly 23 cubic feet in size and continue slowly moving into groundwater supplies and the air you breathe.

Rather than struggling to find a way of handling this on your own, get in touch with us for professional mattress disposal in Phoenix. We come right to your home, move the mattress and box spring, and make sure it is processed and recycled properly – and best of all, affordably.

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