Furniture & Mattress Removal in Vancouver & Metro Vancouver

Vancouver curbside garbage does not take mattresses. Your options are: (1) book a mattress recycling drop-off at a Metro Vancouver transfer station — there's a per-mattress fee, currently around $15–$20 for a standard mattress or box spring; (2) use Metro Vancouver's Large Item Pickup program if you're in a participating city; or (3) hand it off to a junk removal service like ours, which is what most people do when they don't own a truck or don't want to strap a mattress to the roof of their car. We take it directly to a Metro Vancouver mattress recycling facility so the springs, foam and fabric are separated instead of landfilled.

Yes — and in Metro Vancouver almost all of them are, by law. Mattresses and box springs are banned from the landfill under the regional disposal ban, so they have to go through a mattress recycler. Recyclers pull them apart into steel (springs), foam, wood (box spring frame), and cover fabric. Around 80% of a typical mattress is recovered as recyclable material. That's why there's a small recycling fee attached — it pays for the disassembly, not the dump.

Donate-first is our default. If a couch, dresser, dining set or bed frame is clean and in usable shape, we route it to local partners — thrift stores, refugee resettlement groups, or transitional housing programs in Metro Vancouver — before anything else. If a piece is broken, heavily stained, bedbug-suspected, or pet-damaged, donation isn't safe, so it goes to recycling or the transfer station instead. If you'd like a specific charity contacted, tell us when you book and we'll try to route it there first.

There's a small pass-through fee per mattress or box spring, because Metro Vancouver charges recyclers a per-unit fee that ends up in our quote. It's typically $15–$25 per piece on top of the base removal price. We show it as a line item, not a surprise — you'll see the number before we lift anything, and it's the same fee you'd pay if you drove the mattress to the transfer station yourself.