How to get rid of a mattress in Brewton, AL.

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.

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 we established about this city in particular — including where it runs nothing of its own and residents have to look elsewhere.

• Brewton's ordinance puts everything it collects in a bag, and a mattress fits none of the exceptions. Sec. 13-73 sets the price: "Residences, one (1) family, one (1) garbage pickup weekly and one (1) trash pickup weekly .....$21.00" a month, the same for each unit of a multifamily building. Sec. 13-75(a): "All garbage and trash for collection, hauling and disposal by the department shall be placed within plastic bags, which shall have the top thereof tied securely", with one bag per pickup furnished in the monthly fee, extra bags bought at cost from the department, and "No plastic bags of any kind or nature except those furnished and provided by the department shall be used". Sec. 13-81 then allows exactly three things outside a container: tree parts not more than six inches in diameter cut to less than six feet; boxes, crates and cartons broken down and bundled to not more than 100 pounds or four feet in any dimension; and bundled magazines and newspapers to not more than 100 pounds. Furniture and bedding are not among them. Building debris, dirt and rocks are the owner's to remove (Sec. 13-82), as is industrial waste (Sec. 13-84). Sec. 13-70 defines "Garbage and trash" as waste and discarded materials including trash, debris, paper, cans, glass, crockery, rags, bottles and cloth — bedding and furniture appear nowhere in the article. Source Not confirmed: The code establishes no bulky-item or large-item collection and sets no special-pickup charge, and it never names a mattress, so its absence from the three bagging exceptions is a gap in the rules rather than a stated refusal.
• Not an option: Escambia County's only published solid-waste arrangement excludes Brewton by eligibility. The county Environmental Office states that participation in the solid waste disposal program provided by Republic Services is mandatory for residents of the unincorporated areas of Escambia County, Alabama; service is arranged with Republic directly at (888) 748-3782, and a fee exemption is available through the Environmental Office at (251) 388-3803 for households whose only income is Social Security. Brewton is incorporated and collects for itself, so nothing on the county's page is available to a Brewton resident. Source Not confirmed: The county publishes no bulky-item rule, drop-off site or rate card at all, so it says nothing about a mattress even for the unincorporated residents it serves.

• 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