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There is nothing worse than trying to sleep on an old, lumpy, and uncomfortable mattress. Though you could send that old mattress to a newly renovated guest bedroom, your guests probably wouldn’t appreciate sleeping on your discarded hand-me-downs. Unfortunately, getting rid of a mattress in Oakland, California can be a difficult and cumbersome process. Below, we explain some of the difficulties that come with mattress removal in Oakland. We then explain the environmental benefits of mattress recycling, and why Junk King of Alameda is the best option for your mattress recycling needs.
The Challenge of Mattress Disposal in Oakland
In Oakland, bulky item pickup is only available by a pre-scheduled appointment. If you simply take your old mattress out to the curb hoping for regular trash pickup, not only will it be left curbside, but you may also be subject to a hefty city fine. According to the City of Oakland, residents and businesses must place their bulky junk items (such as mattresses) at the curb by 6 a.m. on the day of your appointment to ensure collection. Set-outs over the allowed amounts are also subject to an additional fee.
Though bulky junk collection is free, you can only get rid of 4 cubic yards of waste at once. For people who live in apartments or multi-family residences, you are restricted to only two mattresses or box springs per bulky junk recollection appointment.
With the average mattress weighting between 50 and 150 pounds, moving your mattress out to the curb in front of your home, apartment, or business is no small feat. Furthermore, having to wait several weeks for an available bulky junk collection date may not feasible for many people. When you hire Junk King of Alameda for your mattress removal need, we make it extremely easy and straightforward to get rid of your used mattresses, bedsprings, and other types of furniture.
Our professional junk haulers will do all of the heavy lifting and hauling for you. Simply let us know what bed or mattress you need removed, and we´ll do the rest. Furthermore, our junk removal teams are extremely respectful of our clients´ homes and properties, and we take extra precaution to avoid damage to your walls, doors, and other parts of your home. Should unexpected damage occur, we are also proud to be a fully insured company, and will gladly respond for any issues that may arise.
The Benefits that come with Recycling your Used Mattress
When you hire Junk King of Alameda for your mattress removal needs, you will also be making the most environmentally friendly decision. We know that somewhere between 80 and 90 percent of the raw material inside a mattress can be recycled and transformed into reusable materials? When we pick up your old and used mattress, we go the extra mile to ensure that mattress does not simply end up in the nearest landfill.
Why do we make the extra effort to donate or recycle the used mattresses we pick up? Consider the following figures:
- The average mattress will take at least 100 years to fully decompose when dumped in a landfill.
- Every mattress that is dumped into a landfill takes up 23 cubic feet of space.
- An estimated 20 million mattresses were dumped into landfills across the United States, and that number is expected to grow in the coming years.
- Mattresses dumped in landfills are known to leach dangerous and toxic chemicals into the environment, often contaminating local water supplies.
So how you can avoid some of these damaging environmental effects whenever you purchase a new mattress or bed?
Enter Junk King of Alameda. We are the leading junk removal service for individuals and business owners in the Bay area and provide junk removal services to several communities around the Oakland and Alameda areas, including residential and commercial service to people in Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Castro Valley, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward, Hercules, Newark, Oakland, Pinole, Richmond, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, San Pablo, and Sunol.
Our junk removal team has developed solid, long-standing relationships with several donation and recycling centers, including Goodwill, the Salvation Army, local homeless shelters, Habitat for Humanity and other. This allows us to ensure that all of the mattresses, beds, and bedsprings that we haul away for you are either donated or recycled. In short, when your hire Junk King of Alameda for your mattress removal needs, you can rest assured that we will not simply take those items directly to the local landfills.
Besides helping you safely and efficiently recycle your mattress, we can also haul away other items such e-waste, hot tubs, construction debris, used appliances, yard waste, and virtually anything else that is not classified as toxic waste. We are proud to say that we offer superior customer service, and we have dedicated staff waiting to answer your call and help you find an effective solution for all of your junk removal needs.
We are proud to be the nation´s #1 junk removal company, and we know that our residential and commercial customers prefer us because of our:
- Transparent Pricing Mechanisms: An honest and trustworthy junk removal company should be able to offer you transparent pricing mechanisms. There is nothing worse than hiring a company to get rid of the items left behind by a past resident only to find out that they are going to charge you double what they had originally quoted once the truck is at your home. We are one of the few companies that offers online pricing estimates and free, in-person quotes.
- A Commitment to Recycling and Donations: The best junk removal companies will go the extra mile to ensure that the junk they haul away is not simply taken to the nearest landfill. Junk King is one of the few junk removal companies that can say that over 60 percent of all the junk we haul away is either donated, recycled, or repurposed.
- Quality Customer Service: Lastly, as the nation´s top-rated junk removal company, we also offer superior customer service that ensures that you, as the customer, do not have to any sort of heavy lifting or moving of the heavy and bulky junk items that you need hauled away.
For online and text price estimates, we make every effort to give you a response in 10 minutes or less. Fair and transparent pricing, quality customer service, and a sincere commitment to recycling or reusing at least 60 percent of the junk we pick up are just a few of the reasons that Junk King is Oakland and Alameda´s number one preferred junk removal service.
Simply call us at 1-888-5865(JUNK) or consider booking us online here. Again, we offer up-front pricing that will leave you feeling like the weight of your clutter has been lifted off your shoulders. Call us today to help get rid of your old mattresses in the most efficient way possible!
It’s time for a little scrap metal trivia. Did you know that there are two kinds of scrap metal? These two types are ferrous and nonferrous. Ferrous metals are iron and steel. Nonferrous is pretty much everything else. This includes aluminum, tin, lead, pewter, zinc, bronze and brass. When you think of scrap metal what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Is it huge piles of twisted steel lifted by a giant claw machine at a junk yard? That is certainly one way to look at scrap metal. The truth is that a lot of what we throw out could be considered scrap metal starting with all our soda cans or empty canned goods. Those are easy to get rid of because they can be tossed out in the weekly recycling bin. But what about the big items?
There is a lot we need to do to get ready for the holidays but if you work in office one thing that will be on the schedule could be the annual Christmas party. An office Christmas party is a tradition that has been around as long as there have been offices. Just as long as there have been these Christmas parties there have also been legendary stories of coworkers enjoying too much eggnog which leads to some embarrassing situations that go down in the annals of office history. If this is the first Christmas party you’ll be going to at your Oakland office there are some things to keep in mind to make sure you do not become the stuff of office legend.
There is one way to make sure your teenage kids stay safe this Halloween: Let them throw a party in your Oakland home. Before you freak out at the prospect, this can actually be a great learning and bonding experience. Plus, if all goes according to plan it should be a lot of fun. First, you’ll want to lay down some ground rules. Determine who is going to be responsible for what and put it in writing. This way there shouldn’t be any confusion as the party approaches.
You can really tell a town’s priorities by the type of festivals it holds. For some places, music tops the list of things to do on a warm weekend as jazz or bluegrass festivals pop up. Other communities like to show off their creative types by offering up art fairs. Here in Alameda, some local organizers know just what pleases the residents: Food trucks. That’s why they are holding another in a series of food truck festivals at the Alameda Fairgrounds. During this foodie fest, over 20 varieties of mobile chefs will be offering up their culinary treats to the masses. With all the trucks to choose from, how can you pick just one?
Ever since humans first crawled out of a cave and into a thatched hut, they have been finding ways to improve their home décor. Perhaps that is stretching the analogy a bit, but our homes are a reflection of our personalities. You can tell a lot about a person by the décor in their home. If they are world travelers then there might be plenty of artifacts brought back from faraway places. If they are a bit fastidious then there won’t be a throw pillow out of place. And you’ll certainly be able to tell when a baby has come into a home; they have a way of taking over! If you are looking for ways to improve your own home décor in Oakland consider these five tips:
If you have reached the important decision to go out shopping for a new mattress then you will be presented with many options. You might want to stick with the same size bed that you’re sleeping on now but there’s no reason why you can’t upgrade to the next level. This would be especially true if you’re lucky enough to be sharing a bed with someone and have found that there is just not enough room for two! Among the sizes you’ll be able to pick from are the standard twin, the twin long, the double, the full and the Queen. There are also two types of king-size mattresses to select from: the Eastern King and the California King. If you’ve never had the simple pleasure of sleeping on the king-size mattress you really don’t know what you’re missing!
The official task of picking up garbage in Oakland falls to the Oakland Public Works Agency. Each year, this group of dedicated workers manages to cart off tons of trash from all public right-of-way sidewalks, roads and alleys. Not only is this all your household garbage but also trash from construction sites. If you’ve ever had the misfortune to live in a city when the garbage collectors went on strike then you know how important this service is. Without their efforts the garbage would literally be piling up in the streets.
Like it or not, reality TV programming has changed the landscape of what we watch on TV. A quick glance of TV history can find that various programming genres have gone through cycles. In the beginning, the airwaves were dominated by sitcoms featuring radio stars and variety programs. At the beginning of the 60’s it was all about the westerns and corny “hillbilly” type humor. The 70’s brought a wave of realism not only through dramas and miniseries but also in the half hour sitcom arena. In the 80’s the message was escape through luxury and the sitcom was dead. Then in the 90’s, the sitcom was back. And in the new century, reality TV began muscling out the scripted programming to lay claim to several hours of a week of real people, real chefs, real designers, real teens and pretty much anything else where some drama can be created. Oddly enough, this kind of programming has been around for a long time.
An end of an era has hit Oakland. That would be the actual end of the last World War II-era military hospital in California, the Oak Knoll U.S. Naval Medical Center. It has been targeted for implosion. This is the last building standing from the original 167 acre medical complex in Oakland. In its heyday, this center was home to military barracks, stores and administration buildings along with the hospital. It’s going to take 800 pounds of dynamite to bring down this building and then the real clean-up can begin.