How to get rid of a mattress in Hampton, 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.

• Not an option: Hampton charges $50 for a bulk pickup and excludes mattresses and box springs from it by name. The city's Sanitation Services page states that "The City of Hampton contracts their garbage services through Waste Pro. All garbage pickup, regular household garbage and bulk items, will be done on a scheduled basis," that "You will see a charge of $18.96 on your Utility Bill for Garbage Services. There will be an $13.33 charge for any additional container requested," and that "ALL trash must be placed in the garbage container. Anything outside of the garbage container will not be picked up unless there is a bulk item request." Under "Bulk Items" it provides: "Citizens are asked to call Customer Service, if they have bulk items to be picked up. A fee of $50.00 will be charged for bulk items, which will be added to your utility bill the following month. Bulk items are described as extra trash, boxes, and/or large items which cannot be placed inside a 95-gallon container. Examples of bulk items include, but are not limited to, extra bags, furniture, appliances etc. (Appliances should be empty of all foods, liquids and Freon, with doors removed). If the bulk is more than 3 cubic yards, there will be an additional fee." It then states the exclusion in full: "Bulk items DO NOT include any remodel/construction debris, tires, hazardous material, mattresses, box springs, glass items, large pianos, basketball goals/posts, and other misc. items." Booking is fixed: "The call for bulk pick up must be made to Customer Service at 770-946-4306, no later than Friday at 11:00 a.m. and placed at the curb by 6:00 a.m. on Mondays." Trash pickup starts as early as 6 a.m., and the city recommends containers be at the curb the evening before. Source Not confirmed: The page excludes mattresses and box springs from the paid $50 bulk pickup and does not say what a Hampton resident should do with one instead. Not confirmed: The page publishes no alternative route, no drop-off and no fee for a mattress, and Henry County, which surrounds the city, runs no residential collection of its own. Not confirmed: The additional fee for bulk over three cubic yards is referred to and not stated.
• Hampton's Code of Ordinances Chapter 70 (Solid Waste), Article II, was re-enacted in full by Ord. No. 2024-21 on November 12, 2024. Section 70-31 defines "Bulky trash" as "solid waste materials that cannot fit into a customary waste collection container as described in this chapter. Such waste would include but is not limited to appliances, mattresses, chairs, furniture, tires, and other sizable items," and gives a parallel definition of a "Bulky trash hauler" as a company contracted with or by the city to collect "large items that do not fit into a customary sized waste container including, but not limited to appliances, mattresses, chairs, furniture, tires, and other large items." The same section defines a "Residential unit" as a dwelling "situated in a building having less than four such separate residential units," and provides that "For the purpose of this chapter, a 'residential unit' shall not include any mobile home park, apartment building, condominium, nursing home, or similar residential, convalescent, or multi-family dwelling, whether of single or multi-level construction, consisting of four or more dwelling units." Section 70-34(c) gives the city "the exclusive right to operate and maintain within the corporate limits of the city, either through its own forces or through a contractor, a system of garbage collection," and bars anyone else from garbage collection in the city. Section 70-36(a) provides that "Rates for city waste collection services shall be determined from time to time by the mayor and council, a current schedule of which shall be maintained on file in the office of the city clerk." Section 70-41 requires that "all garbage and refuse receptacles are removed from the curbside or the area adjacent to the street of the city within a 24-hour period of time from collection." Section 70-42 bars scavenging from receptacles set out for collection, and section 70-43 declares any unauthorized accumulation of solid waste a prohibited nuisance. Article III (Littering), re-enacted in 2005, prohibits "any and all littering on public or private property" throughout the city. Source Not confirmed: The code's definition of bulky trash names mattresses, while the city's own sanitation page excludes mattresses and box springs from the bulk items it will collect for $50. The definition governs what a hauler is registered to carry; the sanitation page is the operating rule, and nothing reconciles the two. Not confirmed: The code sets no bulk pickup fee and no rate of any kind; the schedule is on file in the city clerk's office and is not published online. Not confirmed: Buildings of four or more units, mobile home parks, condominiums and apartment buildings are outside the definition of a residential unit, and the code does not say what a resident of one should do with a bulky item. Not confirmed: The dollar penalty for littering under Article III was not read.

• 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