

Omar Mendoza accepts his obligations under California’s mattress recycling program. Anyone who purchases a mattress from his store, All American Mattress & Recliners in Beaumont, is entitled to ask him to remove a used mattress for recycling at no charge. What gets under Mendoza’s skin is when someone who’s not a customer calls to ask for the same service. Often, he learns the person making the request bought a new mattress from an online dealer. “It happens so often it’s ridiculous,” said Mendoza, a member of the Home Furnishings Association. But a reckoning, of sorts, is coming. Beginning Jan. 1,