How to get rid of a mattress in Braselton, GA.

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.

• Braselton's own code puts the job of getting waste to a disposal facility on the householder, which is as close as the town comes to saying it collects nothing. Code of Ordinances Chapter 12 Solid Waste Management, Section 12-102 (adopted May 8, 2000): "The owner, occupant, manager or other person in charge of any premises, office, business establishment, institution, industry, or similar facility, including construction or demolition sites, shall be responsible for the collection and transportation of all solid waste accumulated at the premises, office, business establishment, institution, or similar facility to a solid waste handling facility operating in compliance with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division Rules and Regulations unless arrangements have been made for such services with a collector operating in compliance with this ordinance." The same section requires that "All residential solid waste must be disposed of in a receptacle covered with a lid", forbids open dumping, and forbids depositing solid waste "upon or into any street, right-of-way, alley, or other public or private property within Braselton". Section 12-103 requires any service provider to hold a solid waste handling permit from the Director of the Georgia EPD before operating in the town. Section 12-104: "Any person, firm or corporation or any employee or agent of any firm or entity violating any provision of this chapter may be fined up to $500.00 per violation. Each full day a violation continues may constitute a separate violation." Where waste has been dumped on a person's land, a presumption of violation arises unless the owner gives the police chief written assurance within 15 days that it will be cleared within 30 days of notice; a person who reports illegal dumping on their own land first has 45 days and must then prove disposal. Enforcement falls to the Town Manager, with the police department or code enforcement officer on collection and removal. The chapter contains no town collection program, no bulky-item allowance, no set-out window and no fee. Source Not confirmed: The published compilation is the code prepared April 2011 with amendments and the chapter is dated as adopted May 8, 2000; whether a later amendment has changed it is not established from the town's site. Not confirmed: The chapter names no bulky item and no mattress, and sets no charge. Not confirmed: It does not name any collector serving the town, so a resident cannot learn who to call from the code.
• The one timing rule Braselton does set on collection is in its noise chapter. Code Chapter 14 exempts from the noise limits "Noise from garbage cans, refuse, or similar collection, or the compacting of refuse by persons engaged in garbage collection, whether private or municipal, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on a weekday or when the following day is a weekday, and between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on a weekend day or legal holiday or when the following day is a weekend day or legal holiday, or when the sound level does not exceed any applicable limit specified in Section 14-106". In practice that is the window in which a hauler may work a Braselton street without needing a waiver or staying under the measured sound limit. Source Not confirmed: This is a noise exemption rather than a set-out rule: the town publishes no time by which a resident must have an item at the curb. Not confirmed: The compilation is dated 2011 with amendments and a later revision is not established.
• Braselton's Public Works department does not do solid waste. Its department page describes the remit as: "The Town of Braselton's Public Works Department helps keep our community safe, clean, and well-maintained. The department oversees the maintenance of roads, rights-of-way, stormwater infrastructure, and other essential public infrastructure throughout the Town. Through ongoing maintenance, repairs, and improvement projects, they work to support a high quality of life for residents, businesses, and visitors." Its sidebar runs to utility forms and applications, utility rates and fees, customer deposits, water tap and connection fees, sewer connection fees, watering restrictions and the stormwater utility, all water, sewer and stormwater. The department is at 4986 Hwy 53, Braselton, Georgia 30517, with water and sewer billing at 706-654-5559. Searching the town's site for sanitation, garbage, trash or solid waste returns no page: the Town of Braselton publishes no collection program, no hauler, no bulk-item allowance and no sanitation fee anywhere on braselton.gov. Source Not confirmed: The absence of a page is not itself a statement by the town that it collects nothing; the code's Section 12-102, which puts collection on the property owner, is what establishes that. Not confirmed: The town names no hauler, so a Braselton resident cannot learn from the town who serves their street. Not confirmed: Braselton straddles Jackson, Barrow, Hall and Gwinnett counties and the site does not say whether arrangements differ by county.

• Georgia EPD recycling resources page sends residents to Earth911's ZIP-code locator and the Georgia Recycling Coalition. It notes scrap tires are banned from Georgia landfills but lists no mattress rule. No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on Georgia EPD pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source