How to get rid of a mattress in Doral, FL.

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.

• The City of Doral runs no solid waste collection of its own. Its Public Works Solid Waste page says so in its own words: 'Our solid waste collection is currently being handled by several companies known as private haulers. The City of Doral monitors the private haulers that operate within the City. They need to have a franchise to operate. The Miami-Dade County Solid Waste Management has neighborhood trash and recycling centers to do self disposal.' The city's role is licensing: 'The City of Doral requires for businesses engaging in the business of the collection of solid waste to obtain a franchise from the City of Doral Public Works Department and pay solid waste collection franchise fees.' For self-haul the city sends residents to the county: 'For household trash and yard trash the closest location to Doral residents is: Neighborhood Trash and Recycling Centers.' The page names no city bulky-item or large-item program and gives the Public Works number as 305.593.6740. Source Not confirmed: The city does not say whether the franchised private haulers collect a mattress, on what terms, or at what price, and publishes no rate. Not confirmed: The city's Private Haulers Franchise List is a PDF that was not read, so the current franchised haulers are not recorded here. Not confirmed: The city page does not mention Miami-Dade County's own residential collection, which the county's page says it provides in Doral — see the separate finding; the two do not agree.
• Miami-Dade County's residential collection page names Doral among the places the county itself serves. Under 'Miami-Dade County provides pickup service in these areas:' it lists Unincorporated Miami-Dade, Aventura, Cutler Bay, Doral, Miami Gardens, Miami Lakes, Opa-locka, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, Sunny Isles Beach and Sweetwater. Homestead and Miami Beach are not on that list and appear instead under 'Service in these municipalities is provided by their local government.' So a Doral household served by the county has the county's residential collection, including its bulky waste pickup, while the City of Doral's own page describes collection in the city as being handled by franchised private haulers. Both statements are published by the bodies that would know, and they do not agree. Source Not confirmed: Neither page says which Doral addresses are on county collection and which are on a franchised private hauler, so a Doral resident cannot tell from either source which applies to their home. Not confirmed: No map, street list or property-type rule is published by either body.
• Doral residents are expressly eligible for Miami-Dade County's Neighborhood Trash and Recycling Centers, and the City of Doral's own Solid Waste page sends them there for household trash. The county's eligibility rule names the city: 'Only residential waste fee customers who reside in unincorporated Miami-Dade County and the cities of Aventura, Cutler Bay, Doral, Miami Gardens, Miami Lakes, Opa-locka, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, Sunny Isles Beach and Sweetwater may use these facilities.' Users must 'Present a valid State of Florida driver's license or identification card to verify your property address.' The centers are open daily 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mattresses are accepted at the centers except at Chapman Field and Richmond Heights, which do not take them. Source Not confirmed: The county page publishes no fee for using a Trash and Recycling Center and does not state that it is free. Not confirmed: No per-visit quantity limit for mattresses is published, and no disposal outcome is stated.
• A mattress put out at the curb for Miami-Dade County collection must be bagged, by ordinance. Section 15-2(g) of the Code of Miami-Dade County reads: 'It shall be unlawful for any person to place or cause, let, allow, permit, or suffer the placement of any mattress at curbside without first bagging the mattress in a plastic mattress bag or plastic mattress sleeve capable of fully encasing all sides of the entire mattress. The bag shall be taped closed with packing, shipping or duct tape, or other similar weather resistant adhesive tape. Each mattress in violation shall be considered a separate violation, punishable as set forth in Chapter 8CC of the Code. For the first year after enactment, which shall be deemed an educational period, violators shall be issued a warning by the department. Thereafter, each violation of this subsection shall be subject to enforcement in accordance with Section 8CC-10.' The subsection was added by Ord. No. 23-25 on April 4, 2023. The county's own mattress brochure cites the rule as Section 15-2(f) and puts the penalty at a $100 fine; in the code as currently published the mattress rule sits at 15-2(g), 15-2(f) being the general ban on uncontainerised waste at the curb. The brochure adds that the bagging requirement 'does not apply if you're disposing of a mattress at a Trash and Recycling Center that accepts mattresses or if a company delivering new bedding to your home has agreed to take your old mattress for disposal.' Source Not confirmed: Section 15-2 carries no clause saying whether it reaches inside incorporated municipalities; Chapter 15 states that reach only for Secs. 15-2.1 and 15-2.2 to 15-2.4, so the rule is recorded here for Doral because the county itself collects there, and its force in a city that collects for itself was not established. Not confirmed: The $100 figure comes from the county's brochure, not from Chapter 8CC itself, which was not read.

• Florida DEP publishes a County Recycling Coordinator Listing (PDF/Excel) for finding county contacts; files dated March 14, 2014. No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on Florida DEP waste reduction pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source