How to get rid of a mattress in Commerce, 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.

• Commerce, Georgia (Jackson County; not Commerce, California or Texas) collects household waste for city residents and its Waste Services page says nothing about bulk items. The page says "Commerce City residents receive garbage and recycling collection services" with a green roll-away bin for garbage and a blue one for recycling, collected "every Monday, unless otherwise notified", bins "at the curb no later than 6:00 AM on Monday", missed collection to be reported to City Hall at 706-335-3164 by Monday evening. Residential garbage is "$21.57 per month per roll-a-way", small commercial roll-aways $25.18, and these rates "became effective July 1, 2026", with a CPI adjustment each July. A City notice of December 13, 2023 says "Waste Pro will not be running trucks" on two holidays and that boxes must be broken down and inside bins; the current page names no hauler. Commerce City Hall is at 110 State Street, Commerce, GA 30529. Source Not confirmed: The page and the notice name no bulk-item, mattress or large-item pickup, no item limit, no fee and no booking step, so whether the City collects a mattress at the curb is not established either way. Not confirmed: Who runs the trucks now is not stated: the December 2023 notice names Waste Pro while the page and code describe city collection. Not confirmed: No set-out time for anything but bins is published. Not confirmed: Jackson County's transfer station in Jefferson (mattresses $4 an item) is recorded at county level and is the published route for the item.
• Commerce's Code of Ordinances Chapter 58 (Solid Waste), adopted 1993, has the city's public works and sanitation superintendent run collection: Sec. 58-30 says "Garbage shall be collected from residential areas once a week. Rubbish shall be collected in residential areas on a regular basis, usually once per week", and defines trash (Sec. 58-27) as "paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials". "Bedding" is the only word near a mattress, and a mattress is not named. Excluded from collection: large animal carcasses, construction and demolition or major landscaping waste, tires, and building materials (Sec. 58-30(b)). Sec. 58-29 lets a resident use bags beside the roll-away container occasionally and, on collection days, put garbage and trash "at the curb or beside the roadway, but not in the gutter or street"; an unauthorized accumulation is a nuisance to be removed within five working days of a written notice, each day a separate violation. Fees are "fixed from time to time by the mayor and council" (Sec. 58-32). Sec. 58-34 sends violations to Sec. 1-12, which allows a municipal-court fine of up to $1,000 or 180 days, or both, each day a separate offense. Source Not confirmed: The code names no mattress; the only related word is "bedding" in the trash definition, which is not upgraded to mean a mattress is collected. Not confirmed: No dumping or littering section was read; Chapter 30 (Environment) and Chapter 46 (Offenses) may set separate penalties. Not confirmed: No set-out time, apartment or HOA restriction was read in the code.
• Not an option: Goodwill of North Georgia's "Items We Do and Don't Accept" page lists "Mattresses" and "Box springs" under "ITEMS WE CANNOT ACCEPT". Its donation-center locator lists a center in Commerce at 210 Banks Crossing, Commerce, GA 30529, so the charity donation stop in the city will turn a used mattress away. Source Not confirmed: The locator page and the items page were read on 2026-09-29; the center's hours were not recorded. Not confirmed: No other Commerce reuse outlet was checked. Not confirmed: The Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta, which does take mattresses, limits its pickup area to Cobb, Gwinnett, Fulton and DeKalb (recorded at county level).
• Goodwill of North Georgia's Donation Center Locations page lists a donation center in Commerce at 210 Banks Crossing, Commerce, GA 30529. It is the obvious charity donation stop in Commerce, Georgia; Goodwill's own items page lists mattresses and box springs as not accepted (see the refusal recorded for this city). Source Not confirmed: The locator page was read on 2026-09-29 and the center's hours were not recorded. Not confirmed: The locator is a search results list and its entries were read from the page as loaded.

• 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