City of Santa Cruz Offers Free Bulky Item Pickup and Mattress Drop Off

From the City of Santa Cruz:

SANTA CRUZ, CA — The City of Santa Cruz offers free pickup of appliances and bulky items to residents by appointment on Saturday, June 25. City residents may also bring mattresses and box springs to the Bye Bye Mattress collection trailer located directly across from 300 Natural Bridges Drive (at Delaware) from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on June 25. There is a limit of five mattresses and/or box springs per vehicle.

To participate in the June 25 Bulky Item Pickup, City of Santa Cruz residents will need to use their “free” service tags provided in the annual Recycle Guide mailing and pay any applicable hazardous materials recovery fees on appliances. To register for this service, customers must call the City at (831) 420-5220 by 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 23.

Items accepted in the Bulky Item Pickup include furniture, televisions, computers, mattresses and large household appliances like refrigerators and washing machines. Customers must set tagged items out curbside in front of their residence by 5 a.m. on June 25.

Customers may schedule a bulky item and appliance pickup on other dates for a fee by calling (831) 420-5220. Customers may also personally deliver items to the Resource Recovery Facility at 605 Dimeo Lane Monday through Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mattresses and box springs are now accepted free-of-charge as part of the California Bye Bye Mattress recycling program. Rates and fees for all other items are posted here. Special rates for all services are offered toUC Santa Cruz students as part of the fourth annual UCSC Move-Out Program.

Questions may be addressed to Waste Reduction Manager Mary Simmons at (831) 420-5591 or msimmons@cityofsantacruz.com.

About Bye Bye Mattress

Bye Bye Mattress is California’s mattress recycling program. Established by law and operated by the nonprofit Mattress Recycling Council, the program uses an $11 recycling fee collected on each mattress and box spring sold to state residents to make recycling easier in California communities. The fee is used to pay for collecting, transporting and recycling discarded mattresses, and also establishes a fund that helps municipalities battle illegal dumping. Whether a city service picks up a discarded mattress, a retailer takes it back with new purchase, or it is dropped off, the Bye Bye Mattress program diverts old mattresses from waste to recycling. Landfills are becoming less crowded as old mattresses are recycled into new, useful products. Visit here or call (855) 700-9973 for more information or connect with the program on Facebook or Twitter.