Dumping a mattress in Sydney costs anywhere from nothing to $89, depending on where it goes. Kimbriki, a landfill and transfer station, charges $60 per mattress. Veolia's transfer stations charge $89. A dedicated recycler like Soft Landing charges from $78 for the first mattress and $65 for each extra. Some councils, including the City of Sydney, will take one away free as part of a normal bulky-item pickup. Book a removal instead and Paul's Rubbish takes mattresses with no load limit and no extra charge, folded straight into the job. Fees checked August 2026. Gate fees change, so confirm the current rate with the facility before you go.
Last updated: August 2026.
What It Actually Costs to Dump a Mattress in Sydney
Three Sydney disposal operators publish a mattress price, and no two charge the same.
Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre, a landfill and transfer station on Sydney's Northern Beaches, charges $60 per mattress, up to six per customer.
Veolia runs a network of resource recovery centres and transfer terminals across Sydney, including Eastern Creek and Wetherill Park in the west and Clyde in the inner west. Per its published rate card, a mattress costs $89. A base and mattress sold as a set counts as an ensemble, charged as two mattresses, and each visit is capped at one ensemble or two individual mattresses. That rate card is dated 1 July 2024, the most recent edition publicly available, and Veolia's own brochure notes prices are subject to change, so it's worth confirming before you drive out.
Take it to a dedicated recycler instead and the price runs higher again for a single mattress: Soft Landing charges from $78 for the first mattress and $65 for each additional one in Sydney. The price can vary in some locations depending on distance from the recycling site.
There's another option that skips the drive entirely: book a removal with Paul's Rubbish and mattress collection is part of the job. No load limit, no extra charge, whether it's one mattress or four. Get a free quote or call 0407 125 125.
Line the three paid facilities up and the order holds regardless of how many mattresses you're taking: Kimbriki is the cheapest way to drop one off yourself, Soft Landing sits in the middle, and Veolia is the most expensive of the three. There's a trade-off behind the cheapest option, too: Kimbriki is a landfill, so a mattress dropped there is buried, not recycled, while Soft Landing, a dedicated recycler, processes it for recycling instead.
What It Costs for More Than One Mattress
The per-mattress rate isn't the whole story once you're clearing out more than one bed.
At Kimbriki, the $60 fee is flat per mattress with no volume discount, so two mattresses cost $120 and the six-mattress maximum comes to $360.
At Soft Landing, the first mattress costs from $78 and each additional one is $65, so two mattresses cost from $143 and three cost from $208. Soft Landing's published pricing doesn't state a maximum number per booking.
Veolia doesn't scale the same way, because it caps a single visit at one ensemble or two individual mattresses: two individual mattresses come to $178, and there's no option to take a third in the same trip.
The gap between Kimbriki and the other two widens as the count goes up, since Soft Landing's and Veolia's per-mattress rates ($65-89) both run higher than Kimbriki's flat $60, on every mattress after the first as much as the first. A base and mattress replaced together is what Veolia counts as one ensemble. Clearing out two old beds at once means two ensembles, and Veolia's own limit of one ensemble per visit means that trip would need to be split in two.
The Free Option: Council Collection
Not every mattress has to go through a paid gate. Some Sydney councils will collect one for free as part of their standard bulky-item pickup.
The City of Sydney, for example, states these services are free to all residents in its area. Its booked collection explicitly covers mattresses alongside old furniture, whitegoods and electronics, and takes about a week from booking to pickup. Its page doesn't list a per-year cap on how many times a resident can use it, so check directly with the council if you need more than one collection.
Coverage isn't uniform across Sydney. Your council may collect mattresses or accept them at a transfer station, but not every council does. If yours doesn't, or you've already used whatever free collection it offers for the year, you're back to the paid options above.
Why the Fee Isn't Fixed
It's widely assumed that mattress type drives the price, as if a latex mattress and an innerspring mattress were charged on different scales. None of the operators compared above actually price it that way. Three things drive the number instead:
- Facility choice. The same mattress costs $60 at Kimbriki, from $78 at Soft Landing and $89 at Veolia. Nothing about the mattress changes between those three quotes; the facility does.
- Distance. Soft Landing's price can vary in some locations depending on distance from the recycling site.
- Fee structure, not item type. All three operators compared above price a mattress as a flat per-item fee, never by weight. Kimbriki and Veolia both charge that same flat fee for a mattress while pricing general household waste by weight. At Kimbriki, mixed general waste runs $505 per tonne, with a $45 minimum charge for loads up to 100kg for Northern Beaches or Mosman Council residents ($60 for everyone else). At Veolia's Eastern Creek site, dry material runs $551.20 per tonne, with a $100 minimum charge. Flat per-item pricing isn't unique to mattresses, either: Kimbriki charges fridges, freezers and air conditioners $32 per unit, and car or motorcycle tyres $31 each, up to eight per customer. Which pricing model applies to your load changes what you pay far more than what the item is made of.
There's also a real, separate cost sitting across the Sydney metropolitan area's waste facilities: the NSW Government's waste levy. For the 2026-27 financial year, the Metropolitan Levy Area rate is $180.20 per tonne, against $103.80 per tonne in the Regional Levy Area. The Metropolitan Levy Area is broader than Sydney itself: alongside the Sydney councils it takes in Hunter and Illawarra areas such as Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Cessnock and Wollongong, so the metropolitan rate is not simply a Sydney rate. That metropolitan rate is up from $174.20 in 2025-26 and $170.10 in 2024-25, an increase the NSW Government has confirmed will not exceed the Consumer Price Index for 2026-27. The levy is priced per tonne, not per mattress, so it isn't a line item on your $60 or $89 receipt. It's worth knowing about anyway if you're taking a trailer load of general waste on the same trip: unlike the flat mattress fee, the per-tonne levy figure has risen each of the past two years.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to dump a mattress at the tip in Sydney?
It depends on the facility. Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre charges $60 per mattress, up to six per customer. Veolia's Sydney transfer stations charge $89 per mattress, per their published 2024 rate card. Soft Landing, a dedicated recycler, charges from $78 for the first mattress and $65 for each additional one. Some councils will also collect one free; check with yours.
Is it cheaper to dump a mattress at the tip or use a recycler?
At Kimbriki, tip drop-off costs $60 per mattress; Soft Landing, a recycler, charges from $78 for the first mattress and $65 for each additional one. Kimbriki's landfill fee is the cheapest of the three compared here, and Veolia's transfer-station fee, at $89, is the most expensive.
Does the type of mattress change the disposal fee?
Not at any of the three facilities compared here. Kimbriki, Veolia and Soft Landing all charge a flat per-mattress fee, regardless of whether it's innerspring, latex or memory foam. What changes the price is which facility you use and its fee structure.
Is there a way to avoid the fee altogether?
Two ways. If the mattress is still usable, donating it means no disposal fee at all. If it isn't, some councils, including the City of Sydney, collect mattresses free as part of a standard bulky-item pickup; check whether yours does the same.
Does a mattress-and-base (ensemble) cost more to dump?
At Veolia, yes: an ensemble, a base and mattress sold as a set, is charged as two mattresses, which works out to $178 at its $89-per-mattress rate. Veolia also caps a single visit at one ensemble or two individual mattresses. Kimbriki and Soft Landing's published pricing doesn't call out ensembles separately.
How many mattresses can I take in one trip?
It depends on the facility. Kimbriki allows up to six mattresses per customer. Veolia caps a single visit at one ensemble or two individual mattresses. If you've got more than that, you'll need multiple trips or a different disposal option.
Ready to skip the tip run? Paul's Rubbish collects mattresses anywhere in Sydney, no cap on how many and no extra fee added to the job, unlike the council collections and facility limits compared above. Call 0407 125 125 or get a free quote online. Mattress still usable? See where to donate it in Sydney instead.
