How Much Does Mattress Removal Cost in Orlando?

What the $89 actually covers

The price is intentionally flat so you can budget before we ever ring the doorbell. Eighty-nine dollars per mattress is an all-in number for the Orlando metro, whether you're in College Park, Lake Nona, or out toward Hunter's Creek. It doesn't matter if it's a thin twin or a pillow-top king, the size doesn't change the rate, because the real cost is the labor and the recycler's gate fee, not the foam itself.

Here's the part that catches people off guard with the cheaper-looking quotes online: many $51-to-$54 listings you'll see for Orlando are teaser rates that don't include the recycling fee, the stairs, or the curb-to-truck carry. Our $89 does. We'd rather quote you the honest number once than tack on fees at the door.

• Single mattress: $89 each, recycling fee included, any size twin through king
• Box spring: $89 as a separate piece, but bundles down fast with the mattress
• Mattress plus box spring set: priced as two pieces, with a volume break applied
• Stairs and tight Orlando apartment hallways: no extra charge, it's baked in
• Curbside-ready (already outside): same $89, we just load and go

Why there's a mattress recycling fee at all

A mattress is one of the worst things you can throw in a landfill, and Central Florida's disposal sites know it. The steel coils don't compact, so a single mattress eats up far more buried space than its weight suggests, and those springs can tangle and damage the heavy equipment that runs the working face of a landfill. On top of that, the foam and fabric trap air, spring back, and resist compaction no matter how many times a compactor rolls over them.

That's why we route mattresses to a dedicated recycler in the Taft area south of Orlando rather than dumping them at a transfer station. There, the layers get pulled apart: the steel goes to a scrap metal recycler, the foam and fiber are baled for reuse, and the wood frame is chipped. That separation has a real per-unit cost, and that's the recycling fee folded into your $89. You're not paying us to make a problem disappear, you're paying to keep roughly a hundred pounds of steel and foam out of an Orange County landfill cell.

Volume discounts: apartments, motels, and W192 turnovers

The $89 flat rate is for one or two pieces. The moment you're moving five, ten, or thirty mattresses, the math changes, because the expensive parts of the job (driving out, staging the truck, the trip to the Taft recycler) get spread across a lot more pieces. We see this constantly with apartment property managers around Kissimmee and the 192 corridor doing unit turnovers, and with the older motels along West 192 in Osceola swapping out beds floor by floor.

If you've got a stack of identical mattresses already pulled and sitting in a breezeway or a dumpster pad, that's the cheapest possible scenario, and the per-unit price drops well under the single-piece rate. Tell us the count and whether they're already outside, and we'll quote the whole lot rather than piece by piece.

• 1-2 mattresses: $89 each, the standard flat rate
• Small batch (apartment turnover, a few units): per-piece rate drops below $89
• Motel or large multi-unit job: lot pricing, scoped by count and access
• Already staged outside in a breezeway or by the dumpster: lowest per-unit cost
• Mixed with other junk (furniture, appliances): often folds into a load rate, a quarter load runs $199 and a half load $299

Bed bugs, box springs, and same-day pickup

Bed bugs change the job, not just the price. If there's any sign of an infestation, we don't just toss the mattress on an open truck, because that's how bugs spread to the next house on the route. Instead we bag and seal the mattress in heavy plastic right there in the room before it ever moves, carry it out sealed, and keep it isolated. Tell us up front if bed bugs are even a possibility so the crew arrives with bagging material and schedules it accordingly. It's not something to hide at the door, it's something to plan for.

Box springs follow the same $89 logic as mattresses and recycle the same way, with the wood frame and steel separated out. And yes, same-day pickup is usually on the table for the Orlando area if you call early enough, which is exactly why people use us over the county's once-a-week curb schedule. When a tenant leaves a bed behind the night before a showing, waiting a week for bulk pickup isn't an option.

Recycling vs. the dumpster vs. doing it yourself

Orange County does offer free curbside bulk pickup: set the mattress at the curb by 6 a.m. on your regular collection day and the hauler takes it the same day. It's free, and for a single mattress with no rush it's a legitimate option, but there are real catches. Haulers will refuse anything contaminated with bed bugs, you're stuck waiting for your collection day, and the mattress goes to the landfill, not a recycler. You also have to physically drag it to the curb yourself.

Renting a dumpster makes no sense for one or two mattresses: a small roll-off in the Orlando area runs a few hundred dollars before you've thrown anything away, and mattresses are often surcharged or banned inside it anyway. The pure DIY route, strapping it to a truck and driving to the Orange County Landfill off Young Pine Road (or Osceola's Bass Road site), means tipping fees, your own fuel and time, and a vehicle big enough to haul it. For most people, once you add up the gas, the tipping fee, and an afternoon, our $89 flat (carried out, recycled, same-day) is the cheaper headache to avoid.

• County bulk pickup: free, but landfill-bound, slow, no bed bugs, you haul it to the curb
• Rented dumpster: a few hundred dollars minimum, mattresses often surcharged or excluded
• DIY landfill run: tipping fee plus fuel, time, and a truck big enough to haul it
• Move Junk Away: $89 flat per piece, recycled not dumped, carried out, often same-day