How to get rid of a mattress in Prattville, AL.

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

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. 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

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Prattville and its neighbors.

• There is no landfill in Autauga County that will take a household mattress, and the county's own adopted plan explains where its waste goes instead. The Solid Waste Management Plan for Autauga & Elmore Counties, dated December 2023, lists thirteen municipal solid waste landfills with these counties in their service area — Choctaw County Regional at Butler, Coffee County at Elba, Timberlands at Brewton, Noble Hill at Attalla, Big Sky Environmental at Adamsville, Salem Waste Disposal Center at Opelika, North Montgomery at Montgomery, Arrowhead at Uniontown, Brundidge at Brundidge, Advanced Disposal Star Ridge at Moody, Stone's Throw at Tallassee, Black Warrior at Coker and Turkey Trot at Citronelle — and not one of them is in Autauga County. ADEM's own register has no Autauga County section at all. The one permitted landfill on Autauga soil is industrial and closed to households: "International Paper operates a permitted industrial landfill (ADEM Permit 01-04) onsite in Autauga County, disposing exclusively of industrial waste generated from paper mill operations." The plan also records that the County and all its municipalities except Prattville contract residential collection to Arrow Disposal Services (now Meridian Waste), while "The City of Prattville provides collection for its residents under the Prattville Sanitation Department once a week and transports all material to RePower South in Montgomery, Alabama, where every bag is sorted through to remove the recyclable and salvageable items before disposal into a permitted sub-title D landfill." Source Not confirmed: The plan lists landfills that serve the county but publishes none of their gate rates or public self-haul rules, so it does not establish where an Autauga household may drive a mattress. Not confirmed: The Prattville C&D landfill operated by Jettison Environmental under agreement with the Prattville Solid Waste Authority takes construction and demolition waste; the plan gives it no household mattress policy.
• Autauga County's curbside collection is mandatory and cart-only, so nothing bulky goes to the curb — the county's answer to a mattress is its free dumpsters, not its truck. The county's Solid Waste page states: "Autauga County has mandatory household trash pickup. Residents may contact our vendor, Meridian Waste, at 1-866-440-3983, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM to set up service." Its Solid Waste Officer is "Hoyt Painter", 334-850-7153. The county's own trash-preparation flyer for Meridian Waste customers sets the rule that matters: "PLACE ALL WASTE CURBSIDE BY 5:00 AM ON YOUR SCHEDULED COLLECTION DAY", "All waste should be bagged & tied", "All waste should be contained inside your ADSI cart", and the cart "must be placed within 5' feet of the road and 5' feet from all objects". There is no bulky-item, large-item or extra-pickup provision anywhere in it. The county page treats the dumpsters as the separate route for anything larger. It also publishes a cost exemption: "You are eligible for an exemption if your entire household income is from Social Security payments (or disability) only", applications "accepted September 1 through November 30 by the Autauga County Health Department", with no automatic renewal. The program's legal basis is Autauga County Resolution 2007-05, adopted March 20, 2007 after a referendum on November 7, 2006, effective January 1, 2008. Source Not confirmed: The county publishes no monthly rate for the mandatory collection; billing questions are directed to Meridian Waste. Not confirmed: No bulky-item or special pickup is published for the county's curbside service, and the county does not say in so many words that one does not exist. Not confirmed: Which addresses inside incorporated areas fall under the mandatory program is not resolved on the page; Prattville runs its own sanitation department.
• Nothing in Autauga County recycles a mattress, and the county's own plan lists what it does recycle instead. Alabama has no statewide mattress stewardship program — the Mattress Recycling Council runs programs in "California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island" only — so there is no collection site to look for. The Autauga & Elmore joint plan's recycling section describes Prattville's provision in terms of "cardboard, aluminum cans, and metal", with "The use of the Recycle Center at 530 Doster Road ... available to people outside (cardboard and scrap metal only) and inside (cardboard, s[crap metal and more])", and "numerous blue metal cardboard dumpsters throughout the city". Mattresses appear nowhere in it. The plan's own framing of household waste is disposal into a permitted sub-title D landfill. Source Not confirmed: No facility in or serving Autauga County publishes terms for dismantling or recycling a mattress. This is an absence of published evidence, not a stated refusal by any authority.