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Mattress Recycling Program

The program begins Jan. 1, 2025.

Program Overview

In 2022, Oregon became the fourth U.S. state to enact a law establishing a statewide mattress recycling program. Senate Bill 1576 (2022) requires mattress manufacturers to establish an extended producer responsibility, or EPR, program that will make it easy for consumers to recycle their unwanted mattresses. The law aims to increase mattress recycling, establish new convenient locations in every county for residents to drop off their mattresses, reduce illegal dumping, and create recycling-sector jobs.

The program will be funded by an assessment collected at retail sales of mattresses. Adding mattresses to the products covered by Oregon's EPR programs will provide a much-needed service in both urban and rural communities throughout the state. Mattress manufacturers will designate a stewardship organization to implement the program. DEQ will provide administrative oversight of program implementation, including reviewing and approving a program plan and ensuring that a stewardship organization operates the program in accordance with an approved plan.

Find a collection site near you 

Through this program, people will have access to convenient drop off locations in their area for mattress disposal, similar to other product stewardship programs in the state. The stewardship organization, the Mattress Recycling Council, established an assessment amount of $22.50. This is the amount that people will pay when purchasing a program mattress or boxspring, both online and in-store. The amount is based directly on the cost to run the program, including environmentally sound management and disposal. Mattresses collected will be processed for renovation, reuse or recycling, as appropriate.

This new law requires mattress producers to share responsibility for developing and implementing a statewide system for collection of management of discarded mattresses. It also creates requirements for reducing Illegal dumping and establishing recycling goals. This collection program will begin on Jan. 1, 2025.

Mattress producers, retailers and renovators must register with the approved stewardship organization, the Mattress Recycling Council. Only registered entities may sell or offer for sale any mattress in the state of Oregon.

Retailers may only purchase mattresses from a producer or renovator that is registered with a stewardship organization. Retailers are required to collect, at the point of sale, a mattress stewardship assessment and must identify it as a separate line item on the consumer's receipt. They must also provide to consumers, at the point of retail sale, information on the collection opportunities available through the program, as provided by the stewardship organization(s).

Visit the Mattress Recycling Council's  webpage to register and find more information.

Stewardship organizations must have a plan approved by DEQ in order to operate a mattress program in Oregon. Plans are due to DEQ on October 1, 2023. Before this time, DEQ will post a plan guide to this website, which is meant to be a suggestion for what an approvable plan looks like. This guidance will be pulling directly from statute and (after adoption) administrative rules. This guide is available for any prospective stewardship organization to use. DEQ will also be appointing a mattress stewardship program advisory committee (MSPAC) as required by statute. If you are interested in participating as a stewardship organization, please contact Rachel Harding, Program Coordinator, Rachel.Harding@deq.oregon.gov​.

DEQ has assembled a Plan Guide for the Mattress Stewardship Program. This guide is intended to assist prospective stewardship organizations in understanding the form and manner for submitting a plan to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality for the development and implementation of a mattress stewardship program pursuant to the Mattress Stewardship Act and related rules.


​​Committee members for the initial Mattress Stewardship Program Advisory Committee were approved by the DEQ Director in September 2023. From time to time, DEQ may appoint additional members to represent the interests of the program.

Meetings will convene as needed for the purposes of consulting with a stewardship organization and advising DEQ regarding the review of documents a stewardship organization submits to DEQ including:
  • Any plan for the development and implementation of a mattress stewardship program
  • Any amendment to a program plan

  • Annual reports

Nov. 14, 2023 Meeting


Oct. 17, 2023 Meeting

Additional resources

July 2024

On July 25, 2024, DEQ approved Mattress Recycling Council's program plan. DEQ modified the plan as necessary for the plan to meet the requirements of the Act, as specified in Section 6(2)(b) of the Act. MRC now has seven months from this date to implement the requirements of the Act and the approved program plan.

June 2024

A revised plan was received from the Mattress Recycling Council on June 10, 2024. DEQ has 45 days to review the plan and provide a formal response.

April 2024

As required in the Mattress Stewardship Act (SB 1576 of 2022), DEQ must approve or reject a revised plan within forty-five days of receipt from a stewardship organization. On April 11, 2024, DEQ rejected the revised program plan from the Mattress Recycling Council and requested a revised plan, which is due within sixty days.

February 2024

The Mattress Recycling Council had 60 days to submit a revised program plan, which was received on Feb. 26, 2024. DEQ has 45 days to review the plan and provide a formal response.

December 2023

As required in the Mattress Stewardship Act (SB 1576 of 2022), DEQ is required to approve, reject or request more information within ninety days of receiving a plan for a mattress stewardship program from a stewardship organization. DEQ received a plan from the Mattress Recycling Council. On Dec. 28, 2023, DEQ rejected the plan and requested a revised plan from MRC. 

November 2024

DEQ accepted public comment on this program plan from Oct. 5 to Nov. 24, 2023 at 5 p.m. PT. 

October 2023

Initial program plans were due from prospective stewardship organizations by Oct. 1, 2023. One program plan was submitted to DEQ.

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Mattress Stewardship rulemaking

Visit the Mattress Stewardship 2023 rulemaking page for additional information. 

Contact

Rachel Harding
Product Stewardship Specialist

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