About Casablanca Services
Family-run since 2005. Based in Framingham, with a second yard in Everett and listed by the City of Boston as a mattress recycling hauler.
Twenty Years of Doing It the Slow Way
Our mission is simple: create a happy, healthy environment by delivering landscaping we're genuinely proud of.
Yacine Ibrahimi started Casablanca Services in 2005, right after finishing at Northeastern, with one goal in mind: community service. That sounds like the kind of thing every company website says. The difference is that twenty years later it is still the reason we take the work we take — including the work that is not especially profitable, like the mattress recycling that started as a public service problem nobody else wanted to solve properly.
The company grew the unglamorous way. No franchise, no private equity, no acquisition spree. Customers asked whether we could also do the patio, the fence, the snow — and instead of handing them to a subcontractor we did not know, we learned to do it ourselves. That is why we can put one crew on a property for every season, and it is why the person who designed your beds in year one is still reachable in year eight.
We take the time to listen to every customer, and we're all about giving back — working with the City of Boston and local nonprofits to lend a hand to those in need. That last part is not a marketing line bolted onto the end. It is where the city relationship came from in the first place.
Work With Us →— The Casablanca Family Framingham & Everett, MA · Serving New England since 2005
How Mattress Recycling Became Part of the Work
In November 2022, Massachusetts banned mattresses from disposal. They can no longer legally go into a landfill or the regular waste stream. For the City of Boston, that turned a nuisance into a genuine waste-management problem: hundreds of thousands of residents, a constant churn of move-outs, and a material that is bulky, awkward and now illegal to bury.
Boston answered it with a list. The city does not collect mattresses from buildings with more than six units, so its public works page publishes local recyclers residents can call instead. We are on that list. It is a referral rather than an endorsement — several companies are on it — but it is how a lot of Boston residents find us.
What the listing does not tell you is what happens after the truck pulls away, and that is the part worth asking any hauler about. Ours is dismantled rather than compacted: the steel spring unit to metal recycling, the foam reprocessed, the fiber recovered, the timber chipped, all to Massachusetts state standards.
We are careful about how we describe this, because the industry is not. A rival can buy a truck, print a logo and undercut our price by Friday. What takes longer is a disposal chain you can actually describe to a customer, and a twenty-year record of turning up.
What We Can Actually Prove
Every one of these is verifiable. We have deliberately left off the vague ones.
City of Boston Listed Recycler
Listed on boston.gov as one of the local mattress recycling haulers residents can call.
SIMA Member
Snow & Ice Management Association certified practices.
BBB Accredited
Accredited business with a track record you can look up.
Licensed & Insured
Fully licensed and insured crews on every job.
Recycled to State Standards
Every mattress dismantled and recycled to Massachusetts state standards.
HomeAdvisor Top Rated
Top Rated on HomeAdvisor, with Best-of and Super Service awards on record.
Twenty Years, Abbreviated
- 2005 Casablanca Services is founded Yacine Ibrahimi starts the company shortly after graduating from Northeastern University, with a single goal that has not changed since: community service. One truck, one crew, and a willingness to do the work properly.
- 2010s From lawns to full exterior services Customers kept asking who they should call for the patio, the fence, the snow. Rather than hand them to someone else, we learned to do it. Hardscaping, fencing and snow management become core services rather than favours.
- Growth Commercial and institutional work The company takes on larger commercial and institutional grounds contracts across the region.
- Nov 2022 Massachusetts bans mattress disposal The state adds mattresses to its list of banned materials. Overnight, every household and property manager in Massachusetts has a compliance problem, and the market fills with haulers who take the mattress and ask no further questions.
- Today City of Boston listed hauler Massachusetts bans mattresses from disposal and Boston does not collect them from buildings over six units, so the city publishes a list of local recyclers residents can call. Casablanca Services is on it.
- 20+ years Still family-run, still here Two locations — Framingham and Everett — the same family running it, and a lot of properties we have maintained for longer than some of our competitors have existed.
One Crew, Every Season
The single most common complaint we hear about other landscapers is that a different set of strangers turns up every visit, none of whom know where the irrigation lines run or why that bed was laid out the way it was. That happens when a company subcontracts, or when it churns through seasonal labor.
We run our own crews. The same team works your property each visit, which is why they notice when something is off — the patch of lawn that is thinning before you have spotted it, the fence post that has started to lean, the downspout dumping against the foundation. That kind of noticing cannot be scheduled. It only comes from the same people seeing the same place repeatedly for years.
It also means that when you call, you are talking to the company that will do the work, not a dispatcher who will sell your job to whoever is cheapest that week.
Let's Talk About Your Property
Free on-site estimate, and a straight answer about what will and won't work. Call (508) 271-5655.