What's New at BedShred

July 2025.

PRESS RELEASE: BedShred Turns 10! 

BedShred Mattress Recycling marks its 10th anniversary. BedShred offers affordable residential and commercial pickup and recycling for mattresses and boxsprings across the Charleston, SC Tri-County area. Service runs Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM in Charleston County and Daniel Island’s 29492 zip code, with pickups in Berkeley County on Wednesdays and Dorchester County on Thursdays.

Each item is dismantled and recycled — never refurbished or reused in bedding. Through our collaboration with Nine Lives Mattress Recycling in Pamplico, South Carolina, we’ve kept millions of pounds of mattresses and box springs out of landfills since 2015.

“We launched the BedShred initiative in July 2015 to responsibly recycle old mattresses for Charleston Mattress® customers when delivering new ones,” says owner K.C. Rennie. “We soon expanded to offer pickups to anyone needing to dispose of a mattress, which helped fund and grow the program into its own separate business.”

Foam and quilted materials are baled and sent to carpet manufacturers for reuse in carpet padding. Steel coils are shredded for scrap metal recycling, and wood from boxsprings is offered free to the community for reuse projects. By the end of the process, only 10–25% of each mattress or boxspring ends up as compacted landfill waste.

Rennie adds, “The environmental benefit is clear — why dump tons of recyclable steel in landfills? We’re grateful to the thousands of customers who have scheduled a pick-up with us to ‘shred their bed’ instead.”

For more details and to schedule a pickup, visit bedshred.com.

Summer, 2025. College of Charleston Center for Sustainable Development's Mindful Move-out Program. The College of Charleston collected 600 mattress toppers during dorm move-out to be processed through our (Bed)shredder. Keep up the good work toward your goal of zero waste on campus! All of this material has been recycled into carpet padding.

July 2025. The Citadel Barracks Renovation. The Citadel shreds their beds too. 296 total this year. Thank you for your support and recycling old mattresses properly.

February 4, 2025.  VIDEO: BedShred mattress recycling with a metal shredder. Steel from boxsprings and mattresses is shredded at Nine Lives Recycling in Pamplico, SC, sent to a local scrap yard, and then processed at a smelter. It’s important to avoid burying such a large amount of steel in landfills, where it would remain for centuries.

 

 

 

 

 

February 7, 2023. Mattress Recycling Council Discusses Life Cycle Analysis

An independent life cycle analysis of the Mattress Recycling Council’s California operations found significant environmental benefit from the program including substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions along with water and energy usage.

The life cycle analysis found that MRC is a carbon negative operation and has other favorable environmental benefits.

This study found that recycling 1.6 million mattresses in 2021:

• Displaced 75 million pounds greenhouse gas emissions; or the emissions reduction if there were 98 million fewer miles driven. For context, the EPA estimates that there were 340 billion miles driven in California in 2021.
• Saved 174,000 kilowatt hours or the amount of power it would take to light a community of 17,000 for one year.
• Saved 818 million gallons of water or the annual consumption of 7,500 households.

October 6, 2021. Skyler Baldwin. Online mattress sales bad for landfills, good for Charleston recycling business.

 

 

February 20, 2021. Teri Errico Griffis. Companies dismantle mattresses, recycle, resell pieces and parts. 

1/10/22. CITY OF CHARLESTON WEBSITE - 426 mattresses were recycled in 2021 through drop-off events in partnership with BedShred and SCDHEC! This effort diverted 10.9 tons of material from the landfill saving nearly 15,000 cubic feet of space! The results were part of a pilot program generously funded by SCDHEC. While the City's 2021 pilot program does not have ample funding to continue, residents are encouraged to recycle mattresses via BedShred.com. 

COLLEGE MOVE OUT 2021