How to get rid of a mattress in Cumming, 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.

• In Cumming, Georgia two different bodies handle the two halves of the job, and both are restricted to the city limits. Cumming Utilities' garbage and recycling page states 'Cumming Utilities has partnered with Red Oak Sanitation to collect garbage from the City's residential and small commercial customers' and sets the boundary plainly: 'Garbage & Recycling services are available to Cumming Utilities customers that live or have small businesses inside the corporate city limits of Cumming. If you are outside the city limits, please contact Red Oak or any other garbage service provider directly.' Collection is weekly: 'Garbage and Recycling pickup for the City of Cumming is Friday for all residential and small commercial customers, unless there is a holiday during the week', in which case it slips a day. Large items are not Red Oak's job but the city's own street crew, and again only inside the line: 'Removal of large items like appliances and boxes, etc. - for customers located inside of the Cumming City Limits only - call Cumming Street Department at 770-781-2019', with the caveat '(No paint or hazardous materials will be accepted by the City of Cumming Street Department)'. Yard debris and brush pickup runs on the same city-limits-only basis and the same number. Billing questions go to Cumming Utilities at 770-781-2020; service questions to Red Oak at 678-455-7819. Source Not confirmed: Mattresses are not named among the large items the Cumming Street Department will remove; the page says only 'large items like appliances and boxes, etc.', so whether a mattress qualifies is not established. Not confirmed: No fee, allowance, item limit, notice period or set-out time is published for the Street Department's large-item removal. Not confirmed: The page publishes no residential garbage rate; it links to a fee structure page which sets out no figures in its own text.
• Red Oak Sanitation, the hauler Cumming Utilities has partnered with for garbage collection, names mattresses in its own bulk-item definition and publishes no price for collecting one. Its residential bulk-items page states 'A bulk item is non-household waste that does not fit into the supplied trash container. This includes items such as bikes, furniture, appliances, mattresses, box springs, grills, rugs, etc. This does not include construction debris or items from a remodel.' Both cost and coverage are held back: the page is headed 'BULK ITEM REMOVAL Available only for current customers in select areas. Please contact customer service for rates, service area eligibility, and schedules', and the guidelines add 'Bulk items must be called in and scheduled for pick up. Items not called in will be left at the curb... Please call customer service for rates and availability.' A charge plainly exists - 'If you do not call in to cancel the bulk pickup, you will have to pay again for us to come back out.' Items go out the night before, in an open area clear of mailboxes, hydrants, vehicles, cable and power boxes, trees, posts and low-hanging wires, because the bulk truck uses 'a large claw' and anything the claw could damage means the item is left behind; cushions and other light items must be tied or bound; extra items mixed into a scheduled pickup cause the whole set to be left. Red Oak is at 4405 Canton Hwy, Cumming, GA 30040, 678-455-7819. Source Not confirmed: Red Oak publishes no rate for bulk item removal; the cost of having a mattress collected in Cumming is not stated anywhere, and it is not free. Not confirmed: Red Oak does not publish whether the City of Cumming is one of the 'select areas' in which bulk item removal is offered, and the city directs large items to its own Street Department instead.

• 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