Does the Old Kent Road Refuse and Recycling Centre accept mattresses?

[ondined]

I can't get through to anyone on the phone number and it's not clear online if mattresses are accepted there (although it does say they will collect them as part of the bulky waste service). Would be good to know to save a wasted trip and we'll have to pay to get a bulky waste collection instead.

Thanks very much.

[Mugglesworth]

They have a "general household waste" silo and I've seen mattresses in that.

[Convex]

we took one recently, it was foam and rolled up though i don't know if that makes a difference.

[SpringTime]

Yes they do.

Take some ID to show you're a Southwark resident otherwise they may turn you away. (This is to stop businesses, opportunists and people from outside the area using the service for free.)

[Elphinstone's Army]

if only we were allowed bonfires, what a blaze we could have tonight, - coming home yesterday from Peckham, I counted five. (always double), we could stack them and have a zipwire, we could stack them and have parachute training, we could lay a pile of them, springless, and jump around, we could ....

[malumbu]

There is a dumping ground for old mattresses and used tyres by Camberwell Old Cemetery. Langton Road.

Always amazes me as Lewisham pick up mattresses from outside your house so it must be you Southwark residents!

The tyres are from dodgy businesses. Never understood why people fly-tip.

[Siduhe]

malumbu, do you mean Langton Rise? If so, I drove down there this weekend and saw all the mattresses - have never seen that there before but maybe I've missed them. I would guess it's the same person, likely a disreputable waste collector who has been paid to take them away, rather than an actual resident.

[malumbu]

Langton Rise of course, sorry. There is often a pile of tyres or builder's waste - clearly shady businesses.

Currently a mattress on the Lewisham (top end) of this street - I expect ondined nipped in when we weren't looking.

But it always gets me that people can be bothered to put a mattress into a van and drive there, when (certainly in Lewisham) it is pretty easy to get the Council to collect free of charge.