Matress Disposal London
Why have mattresses become so expensive to dispose of in London today.
As you may or may not know, most waste these days is shredded and used as bio-waste as opposed to being sent to landfill. This is a great way to make electricity from burning it to create steam and ultimately turn turbines and make electricity. Moving away from burning coal and using bio-waste is a much more environmentally friendly method.
So the question is what do mattresses have in this equation? The simple answer is they jam up the shredders that shred the waste. As the shredding mechanism turns the wires on the springs wrap around the shaft that drives the shredder. After a while, it becomes jammed and it can ruin the machine. Although most of the time it just means downtime to repair it and this holds up the operation while costing money.
Because of that cost we generally find them flytipped near communal bins. Rest assured they normally get put in the correct channels and avoid going to landfill. It's unfair that other people land up with fitting the bill though.
Most companies like All Your Junk have to pay to have these either put in landfill, which is not favourable, or pay someone to strip the wires out from the foam to separate the two. This can take up to 2 hours on a single double mattress. Hence the £25 per mattress charge to recycle correctly. Separating the 2 is ideal as the metal gets recycled and the foam is burned in the bio-waste process. Unfortunately this means we have to charge this in addition to or usual costs.
Just wanted to say thank you to the team that came out today. they did a fantastic job, quick and efficient. Please extend my thanks to them for me. a couple of great blokes...
Dani 
What a splendid service you provide. Your guys turned up exactly on time and, after a quick assessment, carried out the very dirty job of clearing my loft...
Chris Emmet
Hope you can fit us in - understand you did a great job for our friend (Paul Davies) helping clear rubbish off an island...
Diana
Thanks for making our job much easier. Quick and always willing to help...
Drew, Kensington Design and Construction
Thanks for doing such a fantastic job - quick, on time, reasonable price, friendly and best of all at a time which suited me...
Lauren Smith
Just a quick note to say the boys did a great job yesterday. Very efficient...
David Pudney
