How to get rid of a mattress in Leeds, 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.

• Leeds charges for its trash and limb pickup and never says how much. The Trash & Limb Pickup page states: "The City of Leeds provides trash and limb pickup for which a small fee is charged. This service is intended for removing limbs, not trees, and for individual household items, not whole houses of furniture, appliances, etc. If you had a contractor cut a large tree, have a large amount of construction material, clean up an entire lot, etc., you are responsible for having a dumpster, taking that material to the dump yourself, or having your contractor remove the material. The City will be able to interpret rules and help wherever possible, but we need your help to provide this service equitably to everyone. Material from commercial contractors and piles outside the intended scope of service will be left unloaded." The same page is where the city tells a Leeds resident where to self-haul, and it names one site only: "If you have material to take to the dump, here is a link: For more information on the Star Ridge Landfill, visit the Star Ridge Landfill Management Facility Webpage (Disposal). Here is information directly from their website for address, contact information, hours of operation, and materials accepted: Star Ridge Landfill 3301 Acmar Road Moody, AL 35004 Phone: 205-352-2028." Leeds lies in Jefferson, Shelby and St. Clair counties; the one site the city itself directs residents to is in St. Clair County, not Jefferson. Source Not confirmed: "A small fee is charged" is the only statement of price for trash and limb pickup; no figure appears on this page, in the Bulk Waste Policy, or anywhere in Chapter 38 of the code.
• Leeds's Chapter 38 (Solid Waste, Ord. No. 2014-10-01, October 6, 2014) commits the city to a charge and points at a schedule the code does not contain. Sec. 38-23: "A. The city shall provide via contractor all collection and disposal services to every person, household, business, industry or property owner within the city pursuant to the conditions and requirements of the Act. B. Residential and business collection and disposal of solid waste, recyclables, rubbish, illegal dumps remediation, non-containerized bulk waste and related system of services allowed by the Act shall be provided through and in accordance with contracts with providers, as may be adopted from time to time by the city council." Sec. 38-24 makes participation compulsory while allowing a person to haul and dispose of their own waste subject to the Act. Sec. 38-25: "Persons using the city trash collection and disposal service shall comply with all rules of the service provider with regard to packaging of trash and placement for collection." Sec. 38-26: "Every person, household, business, industry, or property generating solid wastes, or otherwise subject to the provisions of this article, shall be subject to and responsible for established fees and costs, as associated with the established system of services, approved by the city council from time to time and set forth in the city fee schedule." The code's table of contents carries only Appendix A (Zoning) and Appendix B (SmartCode Overlay District); it contains no fee schedule. Sec. 38-28 grants an exemption to a household whose sole source of income is Social Security, on annual application. Sec. 38-29 allows self-disposal under a certificate of exception whose household application fee "shall not exceed $10.00". Leeds adopts state offenses wholesale rather than writing its own dumping ordinance: Chapter 34, Sec. 34-1, "It is unlawful for any person to violate within the city, or within the police jurisdiction thereof, any law of the state, the violation of which is a misdemeanor", the chapter's state-law reference being the criminal code and the fines for classes of misdemeanours at Code of Ala. 1975, § 13A-5-12. Source Not confirmed: Sec. 38-26 refers all solid waste fees to "the city fee schedule", and the code as published contains no fee schedule; no figure for trash, limb or bulk waste pickup could be established from any city source.
• Leeds changed its residential trash provider in the summer of 2026, and the change has already taken effect. The Residential Garbage Pickup page states: "At the July 27, 2026, Leeds City Council meeting, the City officially approved a new residential trash service provider following the expiration of the previous contract with Waste Management. Ordinance 2026-07-03. As part of the competitive bidding process, the City received a proposal from 121, a company that currently serves several neighboring communities and came highly recommended by those municipalities. Their bid was $5 per month lower than the current rate, resulting in a savings of approximately $60 per year for residential customers." It continues: "Current customers: Your residential trash service will automatically transfer to 121. No action is required to continue your service. Trash can replacement: 121 has received the current customer list and will begin replacing trash cans in the coming days. Please be patient as crews work throughout the city to complete the changeover by August 1. Leave your old can outside for pickup. New service: If you are establishing new residential trash service, please contact 121 directly to set up your account. Refunds: If you are due a refund for any prepaid Waste Management service, those refunds will be handled directly by Waste Management." The page gives no rate for the new provider, only the $5 per month reduction against an unstated previous rate. Source Not confirmed: Neither the current nor the previous residential trash rate is published, only the $5 per month difference between them. Not confirmed: The notice does not say whether the change of provider alters the city's bulk waste or trash and limb service.
• Leeds runs its own recycling center at 1440 9th Street, Leeds, AL 35094, telephone 205-699-2585, open "Monday through Thursday 6 am until 2:30 pm, Friday 6 am until 12:30 pm, Daily Lunch 11 am until 11:30 am", with the note "Recycling is Open only during regular business hours, with No dropping off after-hours." Accepted Materials: "Aluminum or metal cans; Size 1 and 2 Plastic Bottles and Containers; Cardboard Boxes (broken down); Newspaper or Office Paper." Unaccepted Materials: "Food or Household Garbage; Glass; Styrofoam; Walmart or Grocery store Bags." Residents are asked to separate plastic, paper and cans into individual bags. The same page carries the bulk waste schedule note: "Please note as you review the Bulk Waste Map and Schedule that pickup is twice a month and not every other week. The Schedule each month begins with the First Full Week of the Month." It repeats the city's self-haul referral: "If you have material to take to the dump, visit the Star Ridge Landfill Website for more information. Star Ridge Landfill 3301 Acmar Road Moody, AL 35004 Phone 205-352-2028." The recycling center's accepted list is a closed four-item list of containers and paper, and no mattress, furniture or bulky item appears on it. Source Not confirmed: The Leeds Recycling Center's accepted list covers only cans, plastics 1 and 2, cardboard and paper; a mattress is absent from it, and the unaccepted list does not name one either.
• Star Ridge Landfill, the one self-haul site the City of Leeds directs its residents to, is at 3301 Acmar Road, Moody, AL 35004 — in St. Clair County, confirmed on the operator's own facility page. WM's facility detail gives hours of 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and closed Saturday and Sunday, and lists materials accepted as "Asbestos-Friable, Asbestos-Non-Friable, Construction & Demolition Debris, Municipal Solid Waste, NORM/TENORM, Sandblast Media, Sludges - Industrial, Soils - Clean, Soils - Contaminated (Non Haz), Yard Waste/Green Waste"; hazardous waste is not accepted. Municipal solid waste is on the accepted list, which is the category a household mattress falls into, but the page publishes no gate rate, no minimum load charge, no per-item fee and no statement about whether members of the public may self-haul at all. Source Not confirmed: No price, per-ton rate or minimum charge is published for Star Ridge Landfill, and no mattress-specific policy. Not confirmed: The facility page does not say whether residential self-haul customers are accepted or what proof or account is required.

• 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