How to get rid of a mattress in Hamilton, 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.

• Hamilton's code makes the collection compulsory, includes furniture in what counts as trash, obliges the city to take bulky waste, and then leaves the money to a fee schedule it does not print. Sec. 34-31: "the city has determined that a mandatory garbage collection within the city limits is necessary. The city has a refuse collection, hauling and disposal service to be operated by the sanitation department or the city's contractor, or both", not less than once each week in a residential area, "In addition to the regular garbage service, the city will make periodic pickup service for leaves, limbs, trees and other items that can be burned in an open dump by controlled burning." Sec. 34-1 defines trash to cover the item class: "Combustible rubbish includes paper, rags, cartons, wood, furniture, rubber, plastics, yard trimmings, leaves and similar materials. Noncombustible rubbish includes glass, crockery, metal cans, metal furniture and like materials." Sec. 34-42(d) is the bulky obligation: "All bulky waste to be removed by the city from private residences or apartments shall be placed either beside the sidewalk and curb or in an accessible place approved by the sanitation department ... All bulky waste will be collected in accordance with the collection schedule established by the department charged with the duty of collecting such", with tree limbs cut to no more than five feet and no bundle heavier than 75 pounds. The charge is delegated: Sec. 34-32 levies "a monthly service fee to defray a part of the expenses of the collection, hauling and disposal of garbage, trash, rubbish and other refuse ... in the amounts set forth in the city fee schedule", and adds that "Persons over the age of 65 who do not qualify for the low-income exemption provided in this chapter shall be charged a reduced senior citizen rate." Sec. 34-34 exempts "Any household whose sole source of income is social security benefits". Sec. 34-33 bills garbage on the water statement and cuts off service five days after a bill becomes delinquent. Sec. 34-43 requires doors or snap locks to be removed from any icebox, refrigerator or container large enough to enclose a person before it is set out. Source Not confirmed: Sec. 34-32 points at "the city fee schedule" and the code does not contain it. No monthly collection fee and no senior citizen rate could be found on the city's website, so what a Hamilton household pays for collection is not established. Not confirmed: The code does not define "bulky waste" and nowhere mentions bedding or mattresses. Not confirmed: Sec. 34-42(d) requires bulky waste to be collected "in accordance with the collection schedule established by the department" and no such schedule is published; the website's two-trips-a-year allowance is not reflected in the code. Not confirmed: No charge is set anywhere in chapter 34 for bulky waste collection, which is the same shape as the website's silence on the first two trips.
• Hamilton has a self-haul option of its own, which matters because Marion County has no public disposal site anywhere in it. The city's sanitation page states in full: "The public dumpster is open on Wednesdays and Fridays only for people living in the city limits of Hamilton only." Hours are "Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM" and "Friday: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM (or until dumpsters are full)". The eligibility line excludes every Marion County household outside the corporate limits, and the Friday hours are conditional on capacity rather than on the clock. The sanitation department that runs it is at 456 Bexar Avenue East, Hamilton, AL 35570, telephone (205) 921-3288. Source Not confirmed: The location of the public dumpster is not published. Only the sanitation department's own mailing address appears on the page, and the city does not say the dumpster is there. Not confirmed: No list of accepted or excluded items is published for the dumpster, so whether a mattress may be put in it is not stated. Not confirmed: No charge is published for using it, and no proof-of-residency rule is published beyond the city limits requirement. Not confirmed: No volume or vehicle-size limit is published.

• 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