Mattress Removal & Disposal in Tulsa

Because almost nothing in the normal waste chain wants one. That is not a sales line, it is the actual situation in Tulsa County.

A mattress is bulky, springs back after compaction, and tangles in equipment at a transfer station. So most dumpster rental providers here refuse them outright, and the ones that take them charge a separate per-piece fee on top of the rental. Curbside carts are not an option at any size.

Oklahoma also has no state mattress-recycling stewardship programme. California, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Oregon each run one, funded by a fee at the point of sale, which is why residents there have free drop-off sites. Oklahoma does not, so every mattress here carries a real disposal cost that somebody pays. On this site that cost is stated before loading rather than added afterwards.

No. Stairs, apartment landings and long carries are included at no surcharge, which on a king mattress in a second-floor unit is the entire difficulty of the job.

A king mattress does not bend usefully and does not fit around a tight landing turn without two people who have done it before. That is the part people are actually calling about — the disposal question is secondary to getting it out of the bedroom.

The whole bed comes out on the same visit: box spring, foundation, metal or wooden frame, headboard. Bunk beds get dismantled on site where they will not clear a doorway. A mattress and box spring together are still the $85 minimum load, so the pair costs no more than the mattress on its own.

Say so when you book, and it is bagged and sealed in the room before it moves. That is the answer, and it is not a refusal.

The reason to mention it in advance is straightforward: the right bagging material has to be on the truck. A mattress carried uncovered through a hallway, down a stairwell and past three other units is how an infestation spreads through a building, and it is entirely avoidable with thirty seconds of notice.

It does not change the price. What causes an actual problem is finding out on site, and nobody has ever regretted mentioning it.

When you are a City of Tulsa utility customer, you have one or two mattresses, they can reach the curb, and you can wait for a scheduled collection day. In that case $10 beats $85 and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise.

The conditions are the catch, and there are four of them. You need a City utility account with the Customer ID and Account number to schedule. You need to book at least three days before your regular refuse day. You need to get the mattress to the curb yourself. And you need to be inside the City of Tulsa — not Broken Arrow, Bixby, Jenks, Owasso, Sand Springs, Sapulpa, Claremore, Collinsville, Glenpool or unincorporated Tulsa County.

Where it stops working is volume and stairs. Clearing several bedrooms, or a mattress in a second-floor apartment with an exterior stairwell, or a move-out with a deadline — those are the calls this page exists for. Mattresses also come out on nearly every estate cleanout and storage unit cleanout, where they are part of the load rather than the whole job.