Pursuant to state law Public Act 13-42, the Connecticut mattress recycling fee that retailers and other sellers must collect on all mattresses and foundations sold for use in Connecticut will increase from $16.00 to $19.50 per unit effective Oct. 1, 2026.

The fee is a flat per unit rate that applies to all sizes of mattresses and foundations. The fee is subject to sales tax.

Please update your point-of-sale system accordingly and inform your relevant sales, customer service and other staff and service providers about this change so that it can be properly implemented on Oct. 1, 2026.

All entities that sell mattresses for use in Connecticut are required to collect and remit the per unit fee. Entities include (but are not limited to) brick-and-mortar retailers, online sellers and companies that sell mattresses to commercial end users like hotels, hospitality facilities, boarding schools, colleges and universities, nursing homes, medical facilities, etc.

State law also requires that the recycling fee must appear as a separate line item on all receipts for a mattress or foundation, followed by the fee amount, whether sold in-stores or online. Each month, each retailer must remit the full amount of all recycling fees that it has collected to the Mattress Recycling Council through MRCreporting.org. For mattresses and foundations sold on or after Oct. 1, 2026, each retailer or seller is responsible for remitting to MRC recycling fees as follows:

$19.50 times the number of units sold

MRC will send updated customer educational materials about the recycling fee to all registered retail locations prior to October 1. Additional resources can be found online at MattressRecyclingCouncil.org.