How to get rid of a mattress in Fort Valley, GA.

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 Fort Valley and its neighbors.

• Peach County's published solid waste program includes a monthly bulk item collection that names mattresses, but the only description of it the county still publishes is a brochure dated 2013. That brochure, carried on the county's current Public Works Documents page, says: "Bulk Items: Only one bulk item will be picked up per month from each residence. These items include large waste items such as stoves, washing machines, mattresses and furniture but not waste that is classified as construction material." It pairs the bulk item with the monthly yard waste run — "One bulk waste item may also be picked up once monthly on the scheduled yard waste pick-up day" — and requires that "Yard debris and bulk items must be piled next to the driveway before 6:00 am. on the scheduled pickup day." The cost is not itemized: "The trash fee is outlined on the yearly property tax bill and the cost is set by the Board of Commissioners", with vacant properties able to appeal through the Tax Commissioner at 478-825-3161, and service started or reinstated through Public Works at 478-825-8717. Two things in the brochure are out of date: it names the county's hauler as "Advance Disposal, Inc.", and it sets the pick-up day by a fixed route table keyed to each household's weekly trash day. The county's own site, captured March 18, 2023, had already replaced both: "Yard Waste and Bulk Item Pickup has moved in-house to Peach County Public Works. As part of this change, all Yard Waste and Bulk Item Pickup is moving from a route concept to a scheduling concept. To schedule a pickup, contact Public Works at: 478-825-8717", with "Each household is limited to 2 pickups per MONTH." The bulk item rule naming mattresses is identical in both documents, a decade apart. The county's current website keeps only the heading: Public Works lists "Trash and Yard Waste Roadside Collection" among how it serves people, and names Solid Waste (Sanitation) as one of its four divisions, at 902 Campus Drive, Fort Valley, GA 31030, 478-825-8717. Source Not confirmed: Peach County's current website publishes no bulk item page at all. The live document that names mattresses is dated 2013 and names a hauler the county has since replaced with its own crews, and the county page that recorded the change was taken down with the old site, so the present terms of the collection — who runs it, how it is booked, and whether the one-item monthly limit still holds — are not established on any current county source. Not confirmed: No charge for a bulk item is published. The county says only that a trash fee appears on the yearly property tax bill and is set by the Board of Commissioners, without stating the amount or whether a bulk item costs anything extra. An unpublished fee is not a free one. Not confirmed: The county never says who qualifies. Neither document distinguishes city residents from the rest of the county, yet the City of Fort Valley runs its own weekly collection for more than 3,000 residential customers at $25 a month on the utility bill, and the City of Byron has put its own residential solid waste collection out to proposal — so the county's route very likely serves households outside both city limits, and the county does not say so.
• Peach County's drop-off network is two recycling sites and a city-run transfer station, and the county publishes no accepted-items list for any of them. Its Recycle Centers and Convenience Center page gives the Recycle and Convenience Center at 508 Old Macon Rd., Fort Valley, GA; the Recycle Center at 702 Jessie Hall Ct., Byron, GA, marked "Open 24 hours"; and, as a separate line, "Fort Valley Public Works" at 612 South Camellia Boulevard, Fort Valley, Georgia 31030, 478-825-2615, described as a "(Residential and Commercial Waste transfer station)". The two recycling sites are run under the county's Keep Peach County Clean and Beautiful program; the hours for the Fort Valley center are published only inside an image. The county operates no landfill of its own — Public Works records "two closed landfills" among the assets it maintains — and the 2013 brochure sends waste beyond the county's collection to three landfills outside it: Macon County Landfill at 6625 Hwy 49 N., Montezuma; Taylor County Landfill at 33 Stewart Road, Mauk; and Houston County Landfill at 2080 GA Hwy. 247 S., Kathleen, with the instruction to "contact the landfill to verify costs and waste accepted". Source Not confirmed: Neither county recycling site publishes a list of what it accepts, and neither mentions mattresses or box springs, so no county drop-off for a mattress is established in Peach County. The transfer station on South Camellia Boulevard belongs to the City of Fort Valley rather than the county. Not confirmed: No fee is published for either county recycling site, and the county publishes no prices for the three out-of-county landfills it names.