How to get rid of a mattress in Foley, 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.

• Foley's other chapter is the one that names bedding. Sec. 9-29 defines "Trash" as "Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of yard clippings, leaves, wood, tree limbs and trunks, bedding, appliances, paper and cardboard, plastics, wood, wrappings, cans and similar materials" - the litter chapter names bedding where the refuse ordinance's bulk-waste definition does not. "Residential premises" is defined broadly as "Premises used as single or multiple-family dwellings, townhouses, apartments and condominiums, both privately and publicly owned." Sec. 9-29.3(a) is the dumping rule: "It shall be an unlawful violation of this article for any person to discard or dump any litter, garbage, trash or junk on any private or public property unless disposed of in receptacles provided for public use that comply with the requirement of this ordinance or in an area designated by the state department of environmental management as a permitted disposal site." Subsection (b) adds a rebuttable presumption: paperwork bearing a name found in dumped material "shall constitute a rebuttable presumption that the person whose name appears thereon knowingly deposited the litter," with fifteen days' written notice to rebut it before an action is filed. Source Not confirmed: chapter 9 calls bedding trash while the refuse ordinance's bulk-waste definition in chapter 10 does not mention it; the city has not reconciled the two
• Not an option: The nearest thrift shop that takes furniture will not take the mattress. Waterfront Thrift, the charity shop chain of Waterfront Rescue Mission, has a store in Foley at 2365 N McKenzie St, Foley, AL 36535. Its donation page lists what it takes - clothing and fashion accessories, gently used furniture, children's toys, electronics, power tools and hardware, gardening tools and outdoor equipment, household goods and decor, books, CDs and media, musical instruments, working appliances, and recyclable materials including damaged textiles or linens - and puts "Used Mattresses" on the Not Accepted Items list. A Foley reader who loads a mattress alongside a sofa will be turned away with the mattress. Source Not confirmed: the page does not say whether the Foley store's rule differs from the chain's, or whether a box spring is treated the same as a mattress

• 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