How to get rid of a mattress in Oneonta, 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.

• Oneonta Utilities sets out who collects in Oneonta and who does not, and publishes one eligibility rule worth knowing. "Garbage pickup for the city of Oneonta is provided by Meridian Waste. We provide the service of setting up new garbage pickup as well as billing for those who live within the city limits of Oneonta." Inside the city limits service is arranged at (205) 274-2159; "Anyone living outside the city limits of Oneonta will need to contact Meridian Waste directly at 1(866) 440-3983." The concession is on the same page: "Those living within the city limits of Oneonta AND above the age of 70 or on disability are eligible to receive garbage pickup free of cost", with City Hall at (205) 274-2150 handling it. For anything larger than the cart the utility board points back at the city rather than at the hauler: "To schedule brush pickup, or pickup for household items please contact city hall at (205) 274-2150." Source Not confirmed: No monthly garbage rate is published on the utility board's site or on the city's site, so what an Oneonta household pays could not be established. Not confirmed: The free-of-cost concession for residents over 70 or on disability is stated for garbage pickup; whether it extends to the city's household item pickup is not addressed. Not confirmed: Meridian Waste's own guidelines page for the City of Oneonta describes the cart service only — "containerized, nonhazardous municipal solid waste" in a 95-gallon cart collected once weekly — and says nothing about bulky items or mattresses.
• Oneonta's published code has no solid waste chapter, which is the answer to the local-rules question rather than a failure to find one. The code of ordinances on Municode runs Chapter 1 General Provisions, 2 Administration, 3 Animals and Fowl, 4 Building and Construction, 5 Court, 6 Drainage and Flood Prevention, 9 Fire Prevention, 11 Health and Sanitation, 13 Licenses and Taxation, 14 Alcoholic Beverages, 16 Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions, 18 Planning and Development, 20 Secondhand Materials, 21 Streets, Sidewalks and Public Places, 22 Subdivisions, 23 Traffic and Vehicles and 24 Utilities, with appendices for sign regulations and zoning. Chapter 11, the one whose title suggests it, contains only Sec. 11-1 board of health responsibility, Sec. 11-2 drainage from dwellings and businesses, and then Secs. 11-11 to 11-20, which are entirely about wild growth and weeds: premises to be kept free of wild growth, height of weeds, notice of violation, service and posting, determination of violation, penalty for noncompliance, removal by the city and assessment of the cost against the person responsible. There is no chapter and no article establishing garbage or trash collection, setting a rate, defining garbage, trash, trash or bulky waste, imposing a set-out window, or prescribing a penalty for illegal dumping. Source Not confirmed: No ordinance basis for Oneonta's collection, its rate, its set-out rules or its bulky item pickup could be quoted, because the published code contains none. Not confirmed: Whether Oneonta has adopted a solid waste ordinance that has not been codified into the Municode edition could not be established; the city's website publishes an ordinances page but no solid waste ordinance was found on it. Not confirmed: No illegal dumping or littering penalty specific to Oneonta could be established.

• 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