How to get rid of a mattress in Roanoke, 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.

• Roanoke brought residential collection in-house and the department it created describes a cart service and nothing else. The Department of Sanitation "is responsible for the pick-up of household garbage that is bagged, in a city trash can, and placed at the curb." Its three published directions are: "Household garbage must be bagged, placed in a city trash can, and placed at the curb. Please make all effort to bag your trash to avoid messy spills from wind, rain, and neighborhood pets"; "Please do not place limbs, dirt, yard clippings, or leaves in your city-issued can. This is considered compost and debris and will be picked up by the street department"; and "We will pick-up garbage once per week, on your designated day. Place your can at the street by 6:00 a.m. on your designated pick-up day. We will not be allowed to retrieve the can from your property, as city employees can not go onto private property." Collection maps for Monday through Thursday are published. The department is reached through City Hall at 334-863-4129 at 809 Main Street, Roanoke, AL 36274, and is managed by Chris Johnson. Everything larger than the can is pushed to the street department, which the city describes as running a drop-off rather than a curbside run. This is Roanoke, Alabama, in Randolph County, not Roanoke, Virginia, whose bulk and brush collection page outranks it on every obvious query. Source Not confirmed: The city publishes no bulky-item, large-item or special pickup of any kind. A mattress is not addressed anywhere on the sanitation page, and the page does not say what a resident should do with one. Not confirmed: The sanitation page hands limbs, dirt, yard clippings and leaves to the street department but does not say whether the street department collects anything else from the curb. Not confirmed: No monthly garbage rate is published on the city's website. Not confirmed: No set-out volume limit, wrapping rule or illegal dumping penalty appears on the page.
• Roanoke's ordinance index shows that the city has exactly one garbage ordinance and that it is decades old. The city ordinances page lists ordinances by year from 2026 back to 1927, and in the 2001 block the only solid-waste entry appears: "Nature of Garbarge Ord. 694-2001". No later ordinance in any year on the list amends or replaces it, and nothing on the index relates to collection rates, bulky items, set-out windows or illegal dumping. The document itself is served from the city's website as a PDF download that the site's bot-protection layer returns in place of the file, so its text could not be read; it was not read by guessing at it, and nothing is recorded from it. Roanoke does not appear in Municode's Alabama index either, so there is no codified edition of its ordinances to search. For the record, the city's ordinance titles are those of Roanoke, Alabama — Highway 431 speed limits, Randolph County alcohol licensing and the local zoning ordinance 682 — not Roanoke, Virginia. Source Not confirmed: Ordinance 694-2001, "Nature of Garbage", is the city's only solid waste ordinance and its text could not be read. What it defines as garbage, whether it reaches bedding, and what charge or penalty it sets are all unestablished. Not confirmed: No Roanoke ordinance setting the monthly garbage rate could be found on the index. Not confirmed: No Roanoke ordinance on illegal dumping or littering appears on the index.

• 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