How to get rid of a mattress in Decatur, 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.

• Decatur's ordinance is drafted so that the biggest items are outside the collection it defines. Section 19-1 defines "Refuse" as "both garbage and rubbish as defined in this section, dead animals and any other material or substance, regardless of definition, presently picked up and handled by the sanitation department of the City of Decatur, or the city's contractor, except oversized burnable and oversized nonburnable wastes." Those two carve-outs are defined immediately above it. "Oversized burnable wastes" are "items which cannot readily be collected in the normal mechanized compaction truck" and "items which cannot be easily crushed having bulk in excess of ten (10) cubic feet or a maximum single dimension exceeding five (5) feet in length or exceeding four (4) inches in diameter", and "Oversized, nonburnable wastes" are "wastes which are largely of metallic construction such as refrigerators, stoves, barrels, metal furniture, boilers, washing machines and bed springs." Section 19-7 separately refuses building debris, dirt, stumps and limbs four inches or larger. The word "oversized" appears nowhere else in Chapter 19: having excluded these wastes from refuse, the chapter never says who collects them, on what terms, or at what price. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 19 sets no charge, no booking route and no conditions for oversized burnable or oversized nonburnable wastes, having removed them from the definition of the refuse the sanitation department collects Not confirmed: Whether the department treats a mattress as an oversized burnable waste, and a box spring as the "bed springs" named in the oversized nonburnable definition, is not stated by the code or by the department
• The regional landfill Decatur residents self-haul to is run by the city itself, not by Morgan County: the Landfill Department is a City of Decatur department at "500 Landfill Drive Trinity, AL 35673", reached at (256) 341-4992, and the page is headed "Morgan County Regional Landfill". Gate hours are Monday through Friday 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., closed Sunday, with the warning that "Anyone who must unload by hand must be in the gate 30 minutes before closing time." The site "will accept non-hazardous solid waste, non-infectious putrescible and non-putrescible wastes including but not limited to household garbage, industrial waste, construction and demolition debris, tires, limbs, stumps, paper and other similar type materials and special wastes as approved by ADEM", and "will not accept liquid waste, or hazardous and toxic waste, which includes oil, paints, insecticides, batteries, etc." Loads must be covered and secured, and checks are no longer taken. The tonnage rate card on this page is the one already carried at county level; the page adds no per-item line for any bedding. Source Not confirmed: The landfill's fee card has no per-item line for a mattress or box spring, so a single mattress is charged by weight against the minimum on the first 740 pounds Not confirmed: The page does not say whether any household bedding is separated for recycling rather than buried
• Not an option: The Decatur ReStore, run by Habitat for Humanity of Morgan County at 1123 Central Pkwy SW, Decatur, AL 35601, will not take a mattress. Its donate-materials page lists "Furniture" among the items "We will be more than happy to receive", then prints, under "Unfortunately, we cannot accept the following items": "Bedding/curtains used" and "Mattresses or boxsprings". The same list refuses clothing of any kind, toys, old TVs, computers and printers, appliances over seven years old, and "Stained, peeling, worn out, torn furniture with any pet hair, pet damage, or odors". The store offers a "free ReStore pick-up service" for "large and multiple items" at (256) 308-1160, which does not change the refusal, and warns that "There is a $15 disposal fee to dispose of items in our dumpster that must be paid in advance." Store hours are Monday through Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Sunday. Source

• 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