How to get rid of a mattress in Griffin, 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 Griffin and its neighbors.

• Spalding County runs five collection centers and keeps bulky waste at one of them. The county's own "Collection Center Information — Know before you go" guide opens with the access rule: "You must show a valid Spalding County ID, or a permit issued by Public Works to use Spalding County Collection Centers", and adds that "Commercial dumping and rental property/foreclosure cleanouts are considered commercial waste." Four household waste centers take bagged trash and recycling: Blalock at 5756 Newnan Rd, Cabin at 3865 Jackson Rd, Carver Rd at 610 Carver Rd and Woodroof at 4245 Old Atlanta Rd, all Griffin, open "11:00 am - 7:00 pm during scheduled operating weekdays." The fifth, the Akin Collection Center at 841 S McDonough Rd, Griffin, is labeled the "Bulky Waste Collection Center" and carries its own three conditions — "1 Pickup or 4x8 Trailer", "Valid Spalding County Driver's License required" and "No household trash or recyclables". All five centers, Akin included, are open Saturdays 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., and all are "CLOSED Sunday, Wednesday, and ALL Local, State, and Federal Holidays." The guide's accepted list covers ten bags of household garbage, flattened cardboard, loose aluminum cans, HDPE #1 and #2 plastic, paper, yard debris (limited space, Carver Rd only) and scrap metal with refrigerant removed. Refused: tires, and construction and demolition materials — "Wood, Sheetrock, Shingles, Carpet, Large Yard Debris, Etc. These items may be taken to the Shoal Creek Landfill at 575 Shoal Creek Rd." A new resident whose license still shows another address can get a 30-day temporary permit at the Public Works Office, 1515 Williamson Rd, and an out-of-county property owner or a person hauling for a Spalding County resident can get a permanent permit, in both cases on a rental contract, mortgage or closing papers plus a current driver's license and tag numbers. Public Works is at 1515 Meriwether St., Griffin, GA 30223, 770-467-4774. Source Not confirmed: Spalding County never names mattresses, box springs or bedding. The Akin Collection Center is described only as the place for "Bulky Items", with no itemized list, so whether a mattress is one of the bulky items it takes is not established, and the four household centers are limited to bagged trash and recycling. Not confirmed: No fee is published for any collection center — not for a bulky load at Akin, not for household waste at the other four. The county's pages and its visual guide carry no rate schedule at all. Not confirmed: The guide lists other local disposal options by name, address and telephone number — a city transfer station on Industrial Drive in Griffin and several landfills and recyclers in Griffin and Barnesville — but publishes no prices for them and says only "Please contact the landfill to verify costs and waste accepted" in equivalent terms, so none of those is an established mattress option either.
• Spalding County's Solid Waste Department exists to run the collection centers and nothing else. Its page states that the department "is responsible for the operation of the collection centers", lists the five sites with the Akin center flagged for bulk items, links the operating schedule and the collection center visual guide, and gives Public Works at 1515 Meriwether St., Griffin, GA 30223, 770-467-4774, publicworks@spaldingcounty.com. There is no county curbside collection program on the page, no bulky item or large item pickup, no booked special collection and no free dump day or voucher: a household in unincorporated Spalding County hauls its own waste to a collection center, and the county's only published accommodation for something too big for a bag is to send it to Akin. Residents inside the Griffin city limits have the city's own arrangements, which the county does not describe. Source Not confirmed: The county's solid waste page does not state in so many words that it offers no collection; the conclusion rests on the department's own description of its duties and the absence of any collection program across its solid waste pages.