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How to get rid of a mattress in Arab, AL.
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Marshall County, Alabama · 28 options, 8 free · checked Sep 29, 2026
Researched from each provider's own pages and approved for publication by Tim Sumerfield, who has worked in mattress recycling for over a decade. How we check these listings
6 ways to get rid of a mattress in Arab
Everything we could find for this city. Click any one of them for the full details.
- 1A Bedder World Mattress Recycling - Arab (our Arab mattress recycling partner)Easily book a curbside or in-home pickup for mattress recycling throughout AlabamaBook pickup online
- 2City curbside pickup in ArabBook a date with the city and leave it at the curbFree–$200
- 3Drop-off options near Arab1 place that takes mattressesFrom $20
- 4Junk removal options serving Arab4 national companies that come to your doorQuoted by address
- 5Store haul-away options in Arab20 retailers remove the old mattress on deliveryFree at 8
- 6Donation options in Arab2 charities checked, 1 will not take a mattressFree
Also on this page: Marshall County · Alabama rules · common questions · what to check first
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A Bedder World Mattress Recycling - Arab
Use our Arab mattress recycling partner, A Bedder World.
A Bedder World is a curbside and in-home mattress pickup service, recycling mattresses for homes and businesses throughout Alabama. They take it from the curb or carry it out of any room, and you book online and see the full price before you confirm.
- Arab division
- Curbside or any room in the house
- 90% of materials recovered
Metro areas in all 50 states; book online. Small-town and rural coverage not stated.
From $89A pickup fee plus a recycling fee on each piece, so this is where it starts, not a price per mattress. Your total is shown at the booking step before you confirm.
Book recycling pickupRun by the founder of this site. Every other option here is listed so you can compare.
Prices, conditions and sources
Curbside or inside pickup; stairs and long carries cost extra. The price is a pickup fee plus a recycling fee on each piece, so it is a starting price rather than a rate per mattress, and a second piece collected on the same visit costs less than the first. The total for your items is shown at the booking step before you confirm. Owned by the operator of this site.
$89 — Pickup starts at $89. The price is a pickup fee plus a recycling fee on each piece; the total for your items is shown at the booking step.
Not confirmed: The recycling fee charged on each piece is not published separately; it is included in the total shown at the booking step.
A Bedder World states it serves homes and businesses, listing bulk removal for hotels, apartments and commercial customers alongside residential pickup. Source
A Bedder World states it covers 1,000+ cities across all 50 states, with next-day pickup available. Source
A Bedder World states it removes the mattress from anywhere on the property, so pickup is from the curb or from inside the home. Source
A Bedder World states 90% of mattress materials are recovered and commits to sending none to landfill. Source
A Bedder World states it has recycled more than 1 million mattresses. Source
2City curbside pickup in Arab
Arab’s own collection service takes the mattress from outside your home. You normally have to book a date in advance and follow their wrapping rules.
Arab Street Department monthly brush and household-goods collection (first load free, then $100, then $200)
Property owners inside the Arab city limits, on the rotating weekly brush map. The ordinance's fee ladder is written for "residential brush collection" and is charged to the property owner through the Arab Water Works bill. Contractor-generated waste is excluded: "Brush pick-up DOES NOT include contractor jobs – per City Ordinance", and loggers, landscapers and tree-trimmers must take their own material to the city landfill under Sec. 11-113(b).
Conditions and source
"The Arab Street Department brush trucks rotate each week to a different section within the Arab City Limits. Old appliances, furniture, carpet, leaves, tree limbs & brush clippings are all considered solid waste goods and may be collected one time per month", on the week shown on the Brush Pick-up Schedule & Map, and "please don't place items along the roadside until it is your scheduled week for pick-up." Items go "on personal property at the curb or roadside NOT on public ROW or in drainage ditches", and "DO NOT MIX DEBRIS & BRUSH :: Separate piles when placing for pickup." The ordinance, Sec. 11-112(b), permits "Household goods, including furniture and appliances in separate piles from brush, limbs and trees" and "Small amounts of construction debris from homeowner self-improvements"; Sec. 11-112(c) prohibits garbage, food containers, glass, liquids, medical or hazardous wastes, television sets and computer monitors, refrigerators and freezers, loose newspapers and magazines, and tires. Two limits matter for anything heavy: Sec. 11-111(a)(1), "Only those materials capable of being picked-up by the city's brush collecting equipment shall be collected by the city", and (a)(2), "No brush, leaves or other materials shall be raked, shoveled or picked-up by hand by city personnel." Also (a)(4), "No more than two loads shall be collected from single location in an eight-hour work day", and (a)(7), collection only "from the swale of a public street". The Street Dept does not pick up asbestos or pressure-treated wood and building supplies. A $5.00 monthly "sanitation fee" for brush collection is combined with the regular solid-waste charge on the Arab Water Works bill (Sec. 11-113(a)(5)). Arab Street Department, 220 Heroes Lanes Northwest, Arab, AL 35016, 256.586.2510. Household garbage itself is a Meridian Waste cart billed via Arab Water Works, and Meridian's Arab guidelines publish no bulk waste stream at all.
- $0 — Arab Code of Ordinances Sec. 11-113(a)(1): "The city shall collect one load of brush or other permitted materials within a 30-day period from a single location without charge to the owner of the property." The city's Street Department page says the same in plainer words — "1st load – included". This is the free allowance for a load of permitted material, which under Sec. 11-112(b)(4) includes "Household goods, including furniture and appliances in separate piles from brush, limbs and trees". It is not a mattress price: Arab names no mattress in either its permitted or its prohibited list. A separate $5.00 monthly "sanitation fee" for brush collection sits on the Arab Water Works bill under Sec. 11-113(a)(5).
- $100 — Arab Code of Ordinances Sec. 11-113(a)(2): "For residential brush collection a fee of $100.00 for the second load collected within said 30-day period shall be charged". The word "residential" is the ordinance's own, and the commercial and non-profit ladder is a different subsection. The Street Department page states it as "2nd load – $100" and says removal "will be reflected on your water bill". So a Arab household that puts out more than one load of household goods in a 30-day period pays $100 for the second.
- $200 — Arab Code of Ordinances Sec. 11-113(a)(2): "and a fee of $200.00 shall be charged for each additional load thereafter" — that is, the third and every later load within the same 30-day period. The Street Department page states it as "3rd load – $200". Note also Sec. 11-111(a)(4): "No more than two loads shall be collected from single location in an eight-hour work day."
Not confirmed: A mattress is on neither the permitted nor the prohibited list in Sec. 11-112. The nearest permitted category is "Household goods, including furniture and appliances", and neither the ordinance nor the Street Department page says whether a mattress counts.
Not confirmed: The ordinance says "within a 30-day period" and the Street Department page says "one time per month"; whether the allowance resets on a rolling 30 days or a calendar month is not stated.
Not confirmed: Sec. 11-114 sets the penalty by cross-reference to section 1-8 of the Arab code, which was not read in this pass.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 29, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
Free–$200
Visit siteCullman County Sanitation white goods pickup ("bedding materials", second and fourth Thursday, once a year per resident)
The county states both who is in and how often: "The County Sanitation Department provides residential garbage services for all of Cullman County, except for the City of Cullman." and "This service is available to the Cullman County residents one time a year." A resident must book: "Please contact the Cullman County Sanitation Department no later than Monday prior to the Thursday pick up date by calling 256-287-1142." So a City of Cullman address is outside the department's provision, and a county address gets one use of the white goods round a year.
Conditions and source
"Sanitation provides a white goods service on the second and fourth Thursday of each months. This service provides for the pick up of discarded household appliances, bedding materials, chairs, and sofas." Booking closes the Monday before. The department also runs the weekly cart round, "Each household is provided pick up service one day per week", priced on its rates page "*Effective December 1, 2025" at "Residential Service Rates: $16.30 for one County can ($7 per additional can)" with a "Senior Rate: $8.50 (Age 65 and over)" and collection days Monday through Thursday. Skips are separate: "We have 2, 4, and 8 yard dumpsters that primarily service household type garbage. Also, offered are 15, 20, 30, and 40 yard dumpsters for construction type services." Department address 2810 AL Hwy 69S, Cullman, AL 35057, phone 256-287-1142. No fee is published for the white goods pickup itself.
Not confirmed: The county writes "bedding materials" and never the word mattress or box spring, so that it means a mattress is not established in the county's own words.
Not confirmed: No fee is published for the white goods pickup, and the county does not say whether it is covered by the $16.30 monthly cart charge or billed separately.
Not confirmed: No quantity limit per visit is published, so whether a mattress and its box spring use up the single annual allowance together or separately is not established.
Not confirmed: The exclusion of the City of Cullman is written about "residential garbage services" generally and is not repeated for the white goods service specifically.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 28, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
Fee not published
Visit siteA Bedder World collects from the curb too, or from any room in the house — see option 1.
3Drop-off options near Arab
Places that accept mattresses if you can get it there yourself. Distance is measured from the center of Arab. Some accept residents of their own city or county only, so check before you drive.
Cheapest
Arab City Landfill self-haul (construction and demolition only, and only from inside Arab)
Arab addresses only, stated in capitals at the top of the city's page: "*ONLY LOADS FROM INSIDE CITY LIMITS/ARAB POLICE JURISDICTION WILL BE ACCEPTED" and "**ALL LOADS ARE SUBJECT TO INSPECTION". Ordinance 2025-4 adds: "(c) Any person or company bringing any waste to the landfill must be able to identify themselves and confirm the origin of the waste material to the satisfaction of the Arab Landfill employees. (d) Any entity or individual found violating this section, in addition to possible referral for criminal prosecution for ordinance violation, may be banned from future use of the Arab Landfill." This is not a drop-off for a Guntersville, Albertville or Boaz address.
Conditions and source
1443 Hog Jaw Road, Arab, AL 35016, 256.586.2666. "Monday – Friday 7:30a-3:30p", "Saturday* 7:30a-10a", with the city's own warning: "Call ahead to confirm hours before you make the trip!" and closing hours possibly varying on holidays per ADEM requirements. Payment: "Cash Only". Classification: "Pursuant to Permit No 48-03, the Arab City Landfill is classified as a construction + demolition landfill site. As such, and according to regulations established by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM), we can accept only inert materials". The site "specifically CANNOT accept" garbage, burnt garbage and animal wastes; chemical or hazardous wastes; medical wastes, industrial wastes, sludge and closed containers; pressure-treated lumber, power poles, railroad lumber or cross-ties; liquid paint; paint thinner, gasoline or other petroleum products; "Household garbage – anything normally thrown away inside a home is considered household garbage"; and tires, TVs, batteries and fluorescent light bulbs. Tipping Fee Schedule as of May 5, 2025: "Minimum charge for loads less than 1000 lbs – $20.00"; "Charge for all loads over 1000 lbs – $50.00/ton (rounded to the closest dollar amount)"; "Tires: No tires of any type will be accepted or disposed of at the Arab City Landfill"; "Television and computer monitors: $10 each". Rates and rules "are subject to change if necessary to comply with State Law or otherwise when determined to be in the best interest of the City." Director: Devin T. Theobald.
Not confirmed: A mattress is named nowhere on the page — not among the inert materials the site may accept, and not on the list of things it cannot accept. The construction-and-demolition permit and the inert-materials rule do not obviously cover one, but the city does not say either way. Ring 256.586.2666 before loading one.
Not confirmed: The $20.00 minimum and the $50.00 per ton are load prices; no per-item or mattress rate is published.
Not confirmed: The $50.00 per ton over 1000 lbs is a weight rate that does not fit a per-visit price and is recorded in words rather than as a figure.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 29, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
$20
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4Junk removal options serving Arab
Companies that come to your home and carry the mattress out, so you need no vehicle. The prices below are starting prices unless stated — stairs, box springs and extra items add to them.
1-800-GOT-JUNK? mattress removal
Franchise network; coverage varies by ZIP (some ZIPs not serviced).
Conditions and source
In-person estimate before work; single items priced by size, minimum charge applies (amount not published). Donates or recycles where possible.
Not confirmed: Coverage varies by ZIP.
Not confirmed: No published mattress price.
Not confirmed: Recycling/donation not guaranteed per job.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 22, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
Ask provider
Visit siteCollege HUNKS mattress removal
Franchise network; coverage varies by ZIP.
Conditions and source
Free estimate at start of job; price depends on location and job. Mattress recycled or disposed of; few donation centers take mattresses.
Not confirmed: Coverage varies by ZIP.
Not confirmed: No published price.
Not confirmed: Recycling vs landfill not stated per location.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 22, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
Ask provider
Visit siteJunk King mattress disposal
100+ franchise locations in U.S. and Canada; coverage varies by ZIP.
Conditions and source
Free onsite/photo/phone estimate; pricing varies by location. Works with local recyclers and donation partners.
Not confirmed: Coverage varies by ZIP.
Not confirmed: No published mattress price on primary pages.
Not confirmed: Per-location recycling outcome not stated.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 22, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
Ask provider
Visit siteThe other 1 companies
The Junkluggers mattress removal
Franchise network; find a local Junkluggers; coverage varies by ZIP.
Conditions and source
Free up-front estimate; most locations offer same-day pickup. Donates/recycles/repurposes when possible.
Not confirmed: Coverage varies by ZIP.
Not confirmed: No published price.
Not confirmed: Disposal of non-reusable mattresses not described.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 22, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
Ask provider
Visit site5Store haul-away options in Arab
If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.
- Casper
- Free
- Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source
- Purple
- Free
- Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source
- Raymour & Flanigan
- Free
- New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source
- Rooms To Go
- Free
- New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source
The other 15 retailers
- Saatva
- Free
- New Saatva mattress with white glove delivery; select removal at checkout; continental US. Clean, undamaged mattress/foundation only; no adjustable bases, frames, waterbed or Sleep Number bases. Source
- Sam's Club
- Free
- Select mattresses with White Glove Delivery; free White Glove for Plus members buying online; not PR/AK/HI. Haul-away on request; biohazard items refused. Source
- Tempur-Pedic direct
- Free
- Mattress (not TEMPUR-Cloud), power base or foundation bought directly from Tempur-Pedic; like-for-like. Adult 18+ present; bedding removed; unsanitary/heavily soiled items may be refused. Source
- Amazon
- $79.99
- Purchased with an eligible mattress; available in select cities. One mattress or box spring; no bodily fluids or bed bugs; adult present. Source
- Avocado Green Mattress
- Ask provider
- Avocado In-Home Delivery & Setup order in select areas; must buy the equivalent item. Subject to local health regulations; no bed frames/furniture. Source
- Bob's Discount Furniture
- Ask provider
- New mattress/foundation delivered via BOBtastic White Glove Delivery. Safe and sanitary condition. Source
- Costco
- Ask provider
- Costco mattress delivery in select areas; one-for-one like item. Not damaged, soiled or infested; ready at delivery; additional fees may apply. Source
- Helix Sleep
- $219
- Helix order with In-Home Setup & Removal selected at checkout; contiguous 48 states. Stained/soiled items may be refused. Source
- IKEA
- $30
- Mattress or box spring bought in store with in-home delivery, in select markets / ZIP codes in the continental US; not online orders. Removal may be on a different date from delivery. Source
- Living Spaces
- Ask provider
- Full Service Delivery; request at checkout. Stained/soiled mattresses not eligible. Source
- Macys
- $25
- Macy's mattress with White Glove ($125) or Room of Choice ($75) delivery; one-for-one. No stained, soiled or bed-bug items; no frames/adjustable bases/furniture. Source
- Mattress Firm
- Ask provider
- Mattress ordered for delivery from Mattress Firm; one-for-one. Box spring removed only if new order includes one; no wet, unsanitary or infested bedding; no furniture. Source
- Mattress Warehouse
- $29.99
- With delivery of a new purchase; add before delivery date. Mattresses/box springs only; stained items excluded. Source
- Resident (Nectar, DreamCloud)
- $199
- Nectar or DreamCloud order with paid White Glove Delivery, where offered. Removal at the provider's discretion; may be unavailable in some areas; CA/RI/CT add a state-mandated fee. Source
- Sleep Number
- Ask provider
- With a Sleep Number bed delivery: included with Ultimate delivery ($350) or added for $100 with Premium/Doorstep; one disposal per Smart Bed delivered. Adult 18+ present; no bed bugs/extreme soiling; Doorstep customers must put the old bed outside. Source
6Donation options in Arab
Most charities will not take a used mattress. These are the ones we checked, including the ones that say no.
- The Salvation Army (satruck.org): accepted-items list includes 'Mattresses' and beds; also says local ordinances and need vary by location and to call 1-800-SA-TRUCK to confirm what a local center accepts. Source
- Doesn’t take mattresses. Habitat for Humanity national ReStore guide: 'Mattresses and box springs are not accepted.' Source
Policies vary by branch. Call before you carry one over — we asked each of the big three directly: Goodwill, the Salvation Army and Habitat for Humanity.
What Marshall County offers
Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Arab and its neighbors.
- Marshall County owns no landfill, no transfer station and no citizens' drop-off site. Its own Solid Waste Management Plan, dated June 17, 2025, names every facility that handles the county's waste and all of them are private or belong to a city. "The Marshall County Transfer Station, operated by Republic Services, Inc., is located at 224 Rives Road in Albertville, Alabama. Solid waste from Arab, Boaz, Guntersville, Douglas, Grant, Union Grove, and unincorporated Marshall County is disposed of at this transfer station where it is then transported to the Sand Valley Landfill." Despite the name, that station is Republic's, not the county's. The two landfills are also outside the county: "Noble Hill Landfill ... owned and operated by Meridian Waste Alabama, LLC ... located at 300 Noble Hill Road in Attalla, Etowah County" and "Sand Valley Landfill ... owned and operated by GEK, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of BFI Waste Systems of North America, Inc. Note that BFI Waste Systems of North America is owned by Republic Services. This landfill is located at 3345 County Road 209 in Collinsville, Dekalb County", whose permitted service area includes Marshall. The other two sites the plan names are city-owned: the Arab C/D Landfill, where the City of Arab's bulky and yard waste goes, and the Guntersville Landfill, where Guntersville's does. This is Marshall County, ALABAMA — the plan is published by marshallal.gov, the county seat is Guntersville and the cities are Albertville, Arab, Boaz, Douglas, Grant and Union Grove. Source Not confirmed: No gate rate, minimum charge, opening hours or residency rule is published for the Marshall County Transfer Station, for Sand Valley Landfill or for Noble Hill Landfill in any county document; the plan is a planning document and carries no rate card. Not confirmed: Whether the Republic-operated Marshall County Transfer Station accepts self-haul from a household at all is not stated anywhere the county publishes. Not confirmed: The Arab C/D Landfill and Guntersville Landfill are described only as receiving the cities' own collected waste; whether either accepts a household bringing a mattress, and on what terms, is a city question the county plan does not answer.
- Marshall County itself collects nothing; a contractor does, and only outside the towns. The county's 2025 plan: "Unincorporated Marshall County consists of approximately 479.7 square miles and has an estimated 2025 population of 51,442. Republic Services provides residential and commercial waste collection services to the unincorporated areas of Marshall County. Republic Services provides 95-gallon curbside carts for weekly residential collection. Residential and commercial waste is taken to Republic Service's Marshall County Transfer Station in Albertville where it is then taken to the Sand Valley Landfill in DeKalb County for disposal. No recycling programs were reported." Every one of the four towns on our list runs or contracts something of its own, so the county arrangement is not their answer. Albertville: "The City provides residential, commercial, C/D, brush, and bulk solid waste collection services to its citizens through a contract with Meridian Waste". Arab: "The City also performs monthly waste collection of C/D waste, bulky waste, and brush. These wastes are disposed of at the Arab C/D Landfill." Boaz: "The City performs weekly curbside pickup of brush, yard waste, white goods, and bulky waste ... White goods and other bulky waste are placed in roll-off containers serviced by Republic Services." Guntersville: "The City also collects C/D waste, bulky waste, and brush weekly. These wastes are disposed at the Guntersville Landfill." There is a real inconsistency in the county's own document that a reader should not be sold past: section 6.3 opens "The cities of Albertville, Arab, Boaz, Guntersville, and Marshall County provide bulky/yard waste collection services", naming the County among the providers — and then describes what each of the four cities does and says nothing whatever about what the County does. Section 6.2's paragraph on unincorporated Marshall County describes only the weekly cart service. No county bulky waste program is described anywhere in the plan. Source Not confirmed: Section 6.3 lists Marshall County among the providers of bulky/yard waste collection but never describes a county bulky program — no frequency, no sites, no terms, no items — and section 6.2 does not mention one either. Whether a county bulky service exists cannot be established from the county's own plan. Not confirmed: No subscription price is published for the Republic Services collection in unincorporated Marshall County. Not confirmed: Nothing in the plan says whether that weekly cart collection will take a mattress, and a mattress will not fit a 95-gallon cart.
- Marshall County has a solid waste office and publishes nothing about what it does. The county's own departmental page, titled "License Inspection / Solid Waste", gives the office as "424 Blount Ave. / Guntersville, AL / 35976", phone "(256)571-7801" and email "solidwaste@marshallco.org", and the whole of its description reads: "License Inspector/Solidwaste is responsible for License Inspection". The sentence stops there. There is no collection program, no drop-off site, no fee, no subscription, no bulky item service and no eligibility rule published on the page, and no other solid waste page exists on the county site — its departments are Animal Control, Board of Registrars, Circuit Clerk, Commission, Council On Aging, County Parks, four District Shops, Emergency Management, Engineering, License Inspection / Solid Waste, Personnel, Probate, Revenue Commission and Sheriff's Office. A reader in Albertville, Boaz, Guntersville or Arab looking for a county service will find a phone number and nothing to read. Source Not confirmed: The county's solid waste page publishes no program, no facility, no fee and no eligibility rule of any kind; everything about a Marshall County service would have to come from asking, which we do not do.
- Nothing recycles a mattress in Marshall County. The Mattress Recycling Council, which runs the only statewide mattress recycling programs in the United States, states on its own site that it is "Operating Statewide in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island" and that it was "formed by the mattress industry to operate recycling programs in states that have passed mattress recycling laws"; Alabama has passed none and appears nowhere on the page. Marshall County's own 2025 solid waste plan describes the recycling that does exist here — the Albertville-Boaz Recycling Authority and its center in Albertville, and the Guntersville Recycling Center at 271 Avalon Way, which "maintains a recycling trailer at the facility which is open to recycling drop-offs from non-residents" — and neither handles mattresses or bulky items; both are container and cardboard recycling. Source Not confirmed: No private mattress recycler publishing an address and terms was found in this county.
Alabama mattress disposal rules
- ADEM recycling program page covers SWRMMA (2008): 25% waste-reduction goal, $1/ton statewide disposal fee, local recycling grants and funds to clean up illegal dump sites. No mattress-specific content. No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on ADEM pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source
Questions people ask about Arab
Is there free mattress disposal in Arab?
Yes: Casper removal with In-Home Delivery & Setup; Havertys complimentary mattress removal; Purple In-Home Setup with mattress removal. Check eligibility and conditions before you go.
How much does mattress pickup cost in Arab?
Published starting prices: A Bedder World mattress pickup from $89. Stairs, box springs, and extra items can add fees.
Will the store take my old mattress when I buy a new one?
Several retailers offer haul-away with a new mattress delivery, usually with conditions: Casper, Havertys, Purple, Raymour & Flanigan, Rooms To Go, Saatva.
Are there state rules for mattress disposal in Alabama?
ADEM recycling program page covers SWRMMA (2008): 25% waste-reduction goal, $1/ton statewide disposal fee, local recycling grants and funds to clean up illegal dump sites. No mattress-specific content. No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on ADEM pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments.
What to check before you go
- Say if the mattress is wet, stained, or has any sign of pests — that is the usual reason one is turned away.
- Ask what the total will be. Box springs, stairs, and extra items are often charged separately.
- Check you qualify. Many sites serve only residents of their own city or county.