Mattress Recycling Council Fee per Mattress or Foundation

f you’re living in California, Connecticut or Rhode Island you may notice that there is a Mattress Recycling Fee added to your order, this fee is assessed by the Mattress Recycling Council (MRC).

The Mattress Recycling Council (MRC) is a non-profit organization formed by the bedding industry to operate the Bye Bye Mattress recycling programs in states that have enacted mattress recycling laws—California, Connecticut and Rhode Island. This means the retailer, in this case, Essentia, collects a small fee at checkout for each mattress and foundation sold in any of these states. Then the fees are transferred to the state to fund their recycling program. We must by law collect these fees, the state is the one that approves the amount of each fee which is not set or controlled by us, the retailer.