How to get rid of a mattress in Millbrook, 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.

• Millbrook's own curbside service is yard debris and nothing else. "The City of Millbrook provides curbside collection of yard debris for residential properties. However, the City does not pick up yard debris generated by a commercial tree or lawn service. Yard debris includes grass clippings, tree limbs and leaves. Clippings and leaves must be bagged and the City will only accept limbs no longer that four feet in length. Collection occurs once a week. To find out your specific yard waste collection day, please call the Street Department at 334-285-3653." The Street Department's own list of what its eight staff do is street maintenance, drainage, trees and signs on the right-of-way, mowing, holiday decorations and "Operating a Recycling Center and Material Drop Off" - no bulky-item or large-item collection appears anywhere in it. Street Department, 4191 Grandview Road, Millbrook, AL 36054, Brandon Harris, Street Superintendent, 334-285-3653. Source Not confirmed: the city publishes no bulky-item, large-item or special-collection program of any kind, and does not state that it refuses one either - it simply never mentions furniture or a mattress
• Household waste in Millbrook is a cart service run by WM under the city's arrangement, and the cart is the whole of it. WM's Millbrook page states "The city has chosen WM to provide waste pickup, but you'll need your own WM profile to ensure proper service and billing", and "WM provides a 96 gallon cart for weekly trash collection. To view your specific service day, please click here, enter your address and select 'Verify'." Set-out: "Place container on the street with wheels against the curb by 6 a.m. on collection days and remove same day. Keep container at least three (3) feet from parked cars, mailboxes, and other obstacles." Preparation: "All trash should be bagged. Do not overfill your container - the lid must close tightly. Overflow and materials outside may be subject to additional charge or will not be collected." What belongs in it: "Acceptable items include standard household trash like food waste, chip bags, paper towels, plastic bags, and textiles (donate if lightly used)." What does not: "Non-acceptable items include construction waste, auto parts, tires, household hazardous waste (paint, oil, household cleaners), medical or electronic waste." Missed pickups "must be reported within three (3) days". Holiday rule: "If a holiday falls on a weekday, collections for the rest of the week will be pushed back a day." Source Not confirmed: the page offers no bulk-item or large-item collection for Millbrook and names no mattress on either list; the only guidance that touches an oversized item is that anything outside the cart "may be subject to additional charge or will not be collected", with no figure Not confirmed: no monthly rate for the Millbrook service is published on the page
• Millbrook's code has no solid waste chapter at all, which is why nothing in it settles a mattress. The published table of contents for the Code of Ordinances, City of Millbrook runs Chapter 1 General Provisions, 2 Administration, 6 Alcoholic Beverages, 10 Animals, 14 Buildings and Building Regulations, 18 Businesses, 22 Elections, 26 Emergency Services, 30 Environment, 34 Fire Prevention and Protection, 38 Floods, 42 Law Enforcement, 46 Library, 50 Licenses and Taxation, 54 Manufactured Homes and Trailers, 58 Municipal Court, 62 Nuisances, 66 Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions, 70 Parks and Recreation, 74 Planning, 78 Streets Sidewalks and Other Public Places, 82 Telecommunications, 86 Traffic and Vehicles, 90 Utilities - with no solid waste, garbage or sanitation chapter among them. Chapter 30, Environment, contains only Article II, Noise (Secs. 30-31 to 30-34, Ord. No. 93-3, 5-10-1993); Secs. 30-1 to 30-30 are reserved. Chapter 90, Utilities, is water and sanitary sewer, and its only use of the word garbage is in the sewer definitions - "Garbage means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food" - and in the restricted-discharge rules for garbage grinders. Chapter 62, Nuisances, reaches household refuse only through nuisance abatement: Sec. 62-52 includes among the items on a property that may be abated "junk, rubbish, trash, litter, grass and weeds as defined by the city's grass and weed abatement ordinance, junked motor vehicles, and/or any other matter declared a nuisance under existing law" (Ord. No. 19-02, 11-12-2019), and complaints about "trash, junk and junk vehicles" must go before the city council for a resolution before the city attorney may file suit under Code of Ala. 1975, § 6-5-122. Source Not confirmed: there is no codified Millbrook rule on set-out times, bulky items, wrapping, or a charge for large-item collection, because the code contains no solid waste chapter to carry one

• 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