How to get rid of a mattress in Valley, 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 Valley and its neighbors.

• Chambers County does operate a landfill, but it is a construction and demolition site and the county publishes nothing a household could use. The county's Vendor Agreement describes "Chambers County, Alabama by and through the Chambers County Commission (hereinafter “Chambers County”) operating the Chambers County Construction and Demolition landfill, a solid waste disposal situs pursuant to Section 22-27-1 et seq., Code of Alabama, 1975". The agreement is for approved commercial vendors only: "Chambers County has received and approved a credit application on behalf of the Vendor", who may then dispose of waste and "pay any accrued disposal fees at the conclusion of each month", with a ten percent late charge after the fifteenth. It is signed by the Chambers County Solid Waste Officer. No rate, no street address, no hours and no accepted-items list appear in the agreement or anywhere else on the county's site. Source Not confirmed: The county publishes no street address, hours, accepted-items list or gate rate for its construction and demolition landfill; directory listings give an address the county does not confirm, so none is recorded here Not confirmed: Whether a household may self-haul to the site at all, as opposed to an approved vendor on credit, is not published Not confirmed: The disposal fees the agreement refers to are set out nowhere the county publishes
• ADEM's master list confirms the county landfill's permit and its limits. "Chambers County Landfill Permit No. 09-02" is permitted to the "Chambers County Commission", 18 Alabama Avenue E, LaFayette, AL 36862, with contacts Macy Wharton at 334-864-4332 and Al Myers, at a "Volume: 75 tons per day", "Service Area: The States of Alabama and Georgia", "Permit Type: Construction/Demolition". It is the only permitted landfill of any kind listed in Chambers County, and Chambers County appears nowhere in ADEM's municipal solid waste landfill list, so there is no permitted household landfill in the county. Source Not confirmed: The list gives the Commission's office address in LaFayette rather than the landfill site's address Not confirmed: It sets no gate rate, no hours and no accepted-items list
• Valley and Lanett sit on the Georgia line, so Troup County, Georgia was checked as the nearest cross-border drop-off, and it does not carry a mattress answer. Troup County lists four convenience centers, all of them in LaGrange and none in West Point, the Georgia town directly across the river: Loyd-Tatum, 2330 Pegasus Pkwy, LaGrange, GA 30240; Hillcrest, 30 Hillcrest Rd, LaGrange, GA 30241; Knott Road, 80 Knott Rd, LaGrange, GA 30241; and Work Camp, 2508 Hamilton Road, LaGrange, GA 30241. All four show the same hours, "Monday, Friday, Saturday: 7am - 7pm & Sunday 1pm-7pm". The page publishes no fee of any kind, no accepted or excluded items list, no residency rule, and no mattress or bulky-item policy, so nothing here meets the bar for a drop-off a reader could be sent to. Source Not confirmed: No fee, accepted-items list or mattress policy is published for any of the four Troup County convenience centers Not confirmed: Whether an Alabama resident may use a Troup County convenience center, and at what rate, is not published Not confirmed: No drop-off is published in West Point, Georgia, the nearest Georgia town to Valley and Lanett
• Troup County, Georgia's own collection is confined to its unincorporated area and so does nothing for an Alabama household. Its Sanitation page says "Troup County has partnered with Martin Environmental Services, Inc. to provide sanitation services to unincorporated Troup County effective July 1, 2023. Troup County will no longer levy a sanitation millage fee to all parcels in the County." Martin Environmental Services is given at 334-702-4477 and 2388 Bartley Road, LaGrange, GA 30240. No rate, bulky-item provision or mattress policy appears on the page. Source Not confirmed: No household rate, bulky-item allowance or mattress policy is published for the Troup County contract
• Chambers County charges a mandatory solid waste collection fee and the only relief from it is a narrow means test, which is the clearest evidence on the county's site that subscription is compulsory. The application is "to be exempt from the Solid Waste fees for garbage pickup", accepted only "from October 1st thru December 31st of the current year", and must be renewed annually or "you will have to resume paying for trash service, and you will have to wait another year to re-apply." "To qualify for this exemption your sole income for your household must be from Social Security only. You cannot be drawing any kind of retirement, unemployment or pension." It requires three Social Security checks or three months of bank statements and is processed by the county's Solid Waste Officer. It is titled "Chambers County Application for Social Security Exemption from Solid Waste Collection Fees" and cites "any fees that are required by the Solid Waste Act". Note that the document is stale in a way the working link hides: the form body reads "FOR THE YEAR ____ 2023", and it names a different hauler from the current one - "If you owe any amount to Amwaste you will not be approved until you clear up your account with them" - while the county's Solid Waste page now directs residents to Meridian Waste. Source Not confirmed: The document is dated for the year 2023 and names Amwaste, while the county's current Solid Waste page names Meridian Waste, so the fee amount and the billing party it implies are out of date Not confirmed: The amount of the solid waste fee the exemption relieves is not stated
• Not an option: There is no mattress recycling program available to a Valley or Lanett household. The Mattress Recycling Council's own home page says it is "Operating Statewide in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island." Neither Alabama nor Georgia is among them, so crossing the state line at West Point does not reach a program either: there is no Bye Bye Mattress collection site on either side of the Chattahoochee. Source Not confirmed: That no independent mattress recycler operates in Chambers County is established from ADEM's permitted landfill lists and the county's own pages, not from any statement that none exists