The problem, old mattresses that people simply leave on street corners. Kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran on the cleanup plan. The problem now is that you dont have anyplace to put them. What could you do with a mattress . Reporter you see them under freeways, sidewalks and front yards. Everywhere they are not supposed to be. Its a health problem. They attract rodents. They attracted mold, germs. Reporter this is state senator Lonny Hancock talking about the mattress problem nearly 30 years ago. In 2013, she coauthored a new mattress recycling and recovery law giving birth to the byebye Mattress Program offering californians a place to drop off old mattresses free of charge. If you go ahead and have a place to dispose of em and its free, why not . Reporter before the program would cause 20 to 35 to dump them. But cities and organizations like goodwill would pay because of Illegal Dumping. They just come in and dump em at times when were closed or when were on break. Reporter this goodwill