How to get rid of a mattress in Saraland, 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.

• Saraland's own departments do not collect household waste: the city hands the reader straight to a private subscription. The city's Residents page carries a "Garbage Service" tile whose link goes to www.wasteprousa.com/saraland/, and the city's Public Works page describes the department's work as something else entirely — "The Public Works Department is in charge of maintaining roadway signage, paving, and cleaning curbs", at "150 Station Street, Saraland, AL 36571", under "Warren Stephens, Public Works Superintendent", 251.679.5562, open "06:30 am – 03:00 pm", with a Street & Drainage Department whose goal is "to provide maintenance of the city streets and storm water drainage systems". Neither page mentions garbage, trash, bulky items, furniture or a mattress. Waste Pro's own Saraland page, headed "Welcome Residents of Saraland, Alabama", says only: "Waste Pro will provide garbage service only to those who subscribe to service twice per week. Service days will be Monday – Thursday or Tuesday – Friday", with customer service at 251-277-2146 and a sign-up form. It publishes no rate, no bulk-item allowance and no accepted-items list for Saraland. (Waste Pro runs a generic national "Bulk Waste" page in its site navigation; it is not about Saraland and sets no Saraland terms.) The former city garbage page at saraland.org/residents/garbage/ now returns 404. Source Not confirmed: Waste Pro publishes no price for Saraland service and no bulky-item rate; the city publishes none either. Not confirmed: Neither the city nor Waste Pro says whether a mattress can be set out in Saraland, or on what terms.
• Saraland's code promises a weekly trash collection and never says what goes in it or what it costs. Chapter 44 (Solid Waste), § 44-81: "Garbage shall be collected by the city or the city approved service provider from each location twice per week. Trash shall be picked up by the city or city approved trash service provider from each location once per week." "Trash" is defined at § 44-1 as "rubbish, trash, sidewalk sweepings, leaves, grass, weeds, hedge trimmings, small tree trimmings, if such tree trimmings do not include limbs in excess of six feet in length and six inches in diameter, or other refuse originating in yards, sidewalks or neutral grounds adjacent to the home or business of the person receiving garbage service" — a yard-waste definition. The words "mattress", "bulky", "bulk" and "large item" appear nowhere in the chapter; "furniture" appears once, inside the definition of "Junk" ("dilapidated furniture"). The one figure the chapter contains is for vegetation: § 44-80(b) allows trees and parts of trees under six inches in diameter and under six feet long if piled beside the can, adds "Trees and vegetative debris so piled shall not exceed six cubic yards", and provides that "The owner shall be charged a $50.00 fee for any amount above six cubic yards and shall be charged additional fees of $50.00 for each multiple of six cubic yards above 12 cubic yards placed for pick up." § 44-82 excludes "Building debris such as scrap lumber, plaster, roofing, concrete, brickbats and sanding dust ... dirt, stumps and tree trunks, limbs and branches six inches or larger in diameter" from city or contractor collection. For the money, § 44-110(a) says only: "The charges for the city garbage and trash pickup shall be as established by the governing body" — a charge the code authorizes and no published schedule ever sets. On the local rules, § 44-79(a) is precise: "The owner or user of the container shall not place the container upon the streets of the city more than 24 hours prior to the regularly scheduled garbage pickup and shall remove the containers not later than 24 hours after the garbage has been removed, but in no event are garbage containers to be allowed on the streets between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. except for the collection of garbage on the regular days and hours of pickup", and § 44-2(b) sets the penalty for solid-waste offenses at "a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $200.00", each day a separate offense. § 44-23 limits the whole collection article to the city itself: "The provisions of this article shall not apply in the police jurisdiction of the city." Codified through Ordinance No. 1348, adopted February 27, 2025. Source Not confirmed: § 44-110(a) authorizes a garbage and trash charge "as established by the governing body" and no adopted figure is published on the city's site or in the code, so a Saraland resident cannot find out what the service costs. Not confirmed: The code's definition of trash covers yard waste; nothing in it says whether a mattress or other household bulky item is inside or outside the weekly trash collection.

• 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