Proper Mattress Disposal
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I live in a city of about 175k people and my block is constantly littered with discarded mattresses and box springs. There are currently 4 mattress/box spring combinations sitting on the sidewalks around my house; one of which has been there for 2 weeks and is now spray painted with some god-awful graffiti from the neighborhood kids. Does anyone else deal with this garbage? I have a few friends in a rural area of our state who said the wooded area near their house is also littered with old mattresses... drives me nuts. I swear I see a new mattress discarded on my street corner almost every week.
Anyone else have experience with old, shitty mattresses being dumped around them?
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Jay
..really grinds me GEARS,
..really grinds my GEARS, mannn
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Bucky Badger
Not old ones but the kids who
Not old ones but the kids who go to school these days are fond of throwing out all of the practically new stuff that Mom and Dad purchased for them at the beginning of the school year making it easy for me to do upgrades to my place. So thank you to the parents of UW students for the trickle down.
What are they spray painting on the mattresses? Can you call 911 and tell them what's going on?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: treat island
Can you call 911 and tell
"I'm having a mattress emergency."
There are always a few mattresses dumped when the University ends for the summer. No emergency.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Tim
Mattresses are made to fuck
Mattresses are made to fuck on. Try sprucing them up with a set of sheets or even some pine needles and the next time you get a girl in the mood, light a candle or two get a bottle of MD 20/20 and show the neighborhood rascals how to woe a lady.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Briank
No mattresses here, but tires
No mattresses here, but tires instead.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Tim
$40 and my garbage men will
$40 and my garbage men will take a dead body or a few mattresses off of the block.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Jay
>>>What are they spray
>>>What are they spray painting on the mattresses?
Nothing offense or anything. I deem their grafitti as garbage because there is no skill involved whatsoever (drips everywhere)
Sup T. I sent you an email response yesterday.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Jay
>>or even some pine needles
>>or even some pine needles
Makes me think of the old mattresses we kept around our treehouse(s) growing up ;)
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ken D.
There is one corner down the
There is one corner down the block from my place that was a notorious repository for junk of all kind. The owner finally put up "no dumping" signs and the problem seemed to migrate elsewhere.
The worst is going out into the woods and finding piles of junk, much of it bullet ridden.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: jeff
I would just throw it in the
I would just throw it in the back of my truck and dump it in an alley in the middle of the night.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: .............
Our town, (and most)charges
Our town, (and most)charges 30 bucks...per mattress, so its 60 bucks a bed, and you have to schedule a pick up...you are also suppossed to remove any metal you can....so, some ppl see it as an easy issue, while others are driving around w w mattresses in open trunks, looking for a dumpster to do a "dump and run" in...soon , they will be called nastresses
We dont see alot on streets here, but...cross over into Hartford?....one on every block, in the GOOD neighborhoods...
"There has to be a better way"
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: _
The people who deliver the
I didn't know this was an issue.
The people who deliver the mattress take the old one away.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ausonius
Deer carcasses when I lived
Deer carcasses when I lived in the country. Hunters would gut them and dispose of the remains along our road. Brutal when you're out for a run and get a whiff of it.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: charmskooldropout
I might have to head up there
I might have to head up there and grab one. I'll need it for the new/old van
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Where Does The Time Go?
>>> I deem their grafitti as
>>> I deem their grafitti as garbage because there is no skill involved whatsoever (drips everywhere)
you're obviously not a fan of Jackson Pollack.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: .............
Come on up on day before
Come on up on day before garbage day, hounder, and we ll make a day of it...im sure we could equip with you shelving, refrigeration, a bed(spray paint optional), a pallet or 5 for boxspring, and even prob score you a 20 year old laptop, so, ya know, you can zone while vanning in luxery.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: JP (J Bomb)
I'd imagine there are a fair
I'd imagine there are a fair number of crack whores who value a well placed mattress. Have some empathy.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: free to come, free to go
The owner of the condo down
The owner of the condo down from ours was put into a nursing home recently. Her son came up from Boston and moved all of her shit out last weekend. At the end of the day, he jammed 2 mattresses and a box spring into the dumpster. This is a big no no here. Sad thing is, the moron put them into the zero-sort recycling dumpster. I'm sure we will get a nasty note from the association about what goes where.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Jay
>>you're obviously not a fan
>>you're obviously not a fan of Jackson Pollack.
I had to look him up on Google. No- his art looks nice. The graffiti Im ragging on is just some asshole with a spray can trying to write a tag and it's dripping all over the place; no skill involved whatsoever.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: MikePA
i douse mine in gas in my
i douse mine in gas in my fire pit and throw fire crackers from a safe distance to ignite them
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Thumbkinetic
I assume Floridians shoot
I assume Floridians shoot them until they're gone.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ausonius
"Come on up on day before
"Come on up on day before garbage day, hounder, and we ll make a day of it.."
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