It's fifty bucks to discard a mattress here, the explanation given is they have to tear it down before tossing it into a landfill. For fifty bucks the thought has entered my mind to take it apart myself and offering up the steel coils for free on craigslist. They've gone to putting camera's on recycling pick up trucks to catch offenders trying to throw their trash away for free. It certainly isn't unheard of that they've gone after offenders who toss their trash off into the woods by searching throw it to find incriminating evidence of who they might be.
Logic would suggest that the money wasted rummaging through rubbish would be better spent providing free dumps. But when did logic ever factor into policy?