How to dispose of your old bed

Local councils are making it increasingly hard for the public to dispose of large items like beds and bedroom furniture. For example, East Renfrewshire council allows each household one large disposal a year free of charge. How they monitor this control I don’t know. More CCTV cameras perhaps.

Anyhow we have successfully trialled a bed disposal service where we collect the old bed or mattress when we deliver the new one. The costs are horrendous (the council landfill charges are very high) and I wasn’t hopeful that at £30, which is what we have to charge, people would be interested. But they are! And its working well.

The bed disposal service has now been rolled out over all our West of Scotland shops. Once the volume builds up, hopefully the economy of scale will help, more efficient recycling will kick in, and we can reduce the costs.

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