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How to get rid of a mattress in Guntersville, AL.
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Marshall County, Alabama · 27 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 Guntersville
Everything we could find for this city. Click any one of them for the full details.
- 1A Bedder World Mattress Recycling - Guntersville (our Guntersville mattress recycling partner)Easily book a curbside or in-home pickup for mattress recycling throughout AlabamaBook pickup online
- 2City curbside pickup in GuntersvilleBook a date with the city and leave it at the curbFee not published
- 3Drop-off options near Guntersville1 place that takes mattresses, nearest 8 miles awayFrom $29
- 4Junk removal options serving Guntersville4 national companies that come to your doorQuoted by address
- 5Store haul-away options in Guntersville20 retailers remove the old mattress on deliveryFree at 8
- 6Donation options in Guntersville2 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 - Guntersville
Use our Guntersville 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.
- Guntersville 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 Guntersville
Guntersville’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.
Guntersville Street Department solid-waste goods route (every 10 to 14 days, no call needed)
Residents of the City of Guntersville, whose sanitation and recycling are "setup and billed through the Guntersville Water and Sewer Board". Contractor waste is excluded by name: "It is the responsibility of all landscaping contractors, landscape maintenance companies, tree surgeons, fence companies, etc., working on private property, to remove all residue and rubbish resulting from their work." Elderly and disabled residents are told to call (256) 571-7598 for exceptions.
Conditions and source
"The Street Department has a route that takes them through each area of the city every 10-14 days. Old appliances, furniture, carpet, tree and brush/limbs are considered solid waste goods and are available for collection on a bi-weekly basis. Items should be placed on your own property at the alley or street curb, not on the public right of way or in a drainage ditch." No booking is required. Yard waste is bagged and under 50 pounds, tree limbs cannot exceed 5 feet, and loose brush is taken "in small amounts, not to exceed approximately 3 brush truck bites or a small pickup load", with the excess left until the next route. Not collected: "items containing asbestos, pressure treated wood or hazardous chemicals or materials", and "scrap lumber, plaster, roofing, shingles, concrete, brickbats, sheetrock, sanding dust, or tree limbs or trimmings resulting from construction repair, remodeling or the clearing of land". Household carts are separate: out by 5 a.m., bagged and tied in a receptacle with handles and a secured lid, one 96-gallon can or up to three 32-gallon cans, no makeshift receptacles or 55-gallon barrels, and "Trucks will not return to collect carts that are placed out late, blocked, too close to obstructions, or containing unauthorized debris." Public Works, 301 Avalon Way, Guntersville, AL 35976, (256) 571-7598, Monday through Friday 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For anything the route will not take: "The City of Guntersville does not have a landfill that is open to the public. Those needing to dispose of items not accepted by the Street Department pick-up should contact the Albertville Transfer Station (256) 891-2944."
Not confirmed: A mattress is named neither as accepted nor as refused. "Old appliances, furniture, carpet" is the accepted category and the city does not say whether a mattress counts as furniture.
Not confirmed: No fee, allowance or quantity limit is published for the bulky route; the only published limits are on yard waste.
Not confirmed: Guntersville publishes no monthly sanitation rate — it is set and billed by the Water and Sewer Board — and no eligibility test or description for the elderly and disabled exception.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 29, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
Public Works / Street Maintenance — City of Guntersville, Alabama
Sanitation (Household/Commercial Waste) — City of Guntersville, Alabama
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 Guntersville
Places that accept mattresses if you can get it there yourself. Distance is measured from the center of Guntersville. Some accept residents of their own city or county only, so check before you drive.
Cheapest
Marshall County Transfer Station self-haul, Albertville (charged by the load; the $29 truck-bed rate needs an Albertville utility bill)
Open to all for the trailer rates — the City of Albertville prints "pricing for all, city limits and outside" against both trailer lines. The cheap truck-bed rate is conditional on Albertville residence and proof of it: "residents of Albertville City Limits must provide copy of current MUB bill at station to receive this pricing". No decal, permit or other residency test is published.
Conditions and source
224 Rives Road, Albertville, AL 35951, phone (256) 891-2944. "Hours: M-F 7 a.m.-4 p.m." The rate card as the City of Albertville publishes it: "Truck bed load only: $29 +/- (residents of Albertville City Limits must provide copy of current MUB bill at station to receive this pricing)"; "Truck with trailer: 2 ton minimum $198.34 (pricing for all, city limits and outside)"; "+ $78 per ton over minimum (pricing for all, city limits and outside)". Note the city's own "+/-" against the $29: it is an approximate load charge, settled at the station, not a fixed ticket. No mattress, bedding or furniture rate appears anywhere on the card — a mattress would sit inside a load, not attract a fee of its own. The City of Guntersville separately directs its residents here for "items not accepted by the Street Department pick-up", so the station serves more of Marshall County than Albertville alone; a Guntersville resident is not an Albertville resident and the truck-bed rate is not theirs.
- $29 — City of Albertville's published rate card for the Marshall County Transfer Station: "Truck bed load only: $29 +/- (residents of Albertville City Limits must provide copy of current MUB bill at station to receive this pricing)". Two conditions travel with it: the load must be a truck bed load, and an Albertville resident must show a current Municipal Utilities Board bill at the station to get this price. The city prints the figure with a "+/-", so it is an approximate load charge settled at the station rather than a fixed ticket. No mattress rate appears anywhere on the card; this is the price of a load, not of an item.
- $198.34 — City of Albertville's published rate card for the Marshall County Transfer Station: "Truck with trailer: 2 ton minimum $198.34 (pricing for all, city limits and outside)", with "+ $78 per ton over minimum (pricing for all, city limits and outside)". This is the two-ton minimum charge for anything brought on a trailer, and unlike the truck-bed rate it is the same price for everyone, inside the Albertville city limits or outside them — which is the rate that applies to a Guntersville resident sent here by their own city. The $78 per ton above the minimum is a weight rate and is recorded in words rather than as a figure.
Not confirmed: No mattress is named on the rate card and no per-item charge of any kind is published, so whether a mattress is accepted at all is not established — only what a load costs.
Not confirmed: The $29 figure carries a "+/-" in the city's own text and is therefore approximate.
Not confirmed: The station's operator is not named on the City of Albertville's page, and the $78 per ton over the minimum is a weight rate that does not fit a per-visit price and is recorded here in words rather than as a figure.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 29, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
$29
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4Junk removal options serving Guntersville
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 Guntersville
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 Guntersville
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 Guntersville 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 Guntersville
Is there free mattress disposal in Guntersville?
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 Guntersville?
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.