How to get rid of a mattress in Holly Springs, 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.

• Holly Springs runs no collection, and says so in its own code rather than by omission. Chapter 62, Solid Waste, of the Holly Springs Code of Ordinances — version of December 19, 2025 — opens with an editor's note that settles the question: "Residents contract with private companies for solid waste collection and disposal." The chapter creates no municipal service, sets no rates and establishes no bulky-item program. What it does do is adopt the county's plan — Sec. 62-1: "The Cherokee County Solid Waste Management Plan is adopted pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 12-8-20 et seq." — and restrict yard waste. Sec. 62-32(a): "It shall be unlawful to place or mix yard trimmings with municipal solid waste within the city", and subsection (b) bars disposal of yard trimmings "at any municipal solid waste disposal facility having a liner and leachate collection system or requiring vertical expansion located within the county", while (c) requires trimmings to be "sorted and stockpiled or shipped, composted, used as mulch, or otherwise beneficially reused or recycled to the maximum extent feasible". Sec. 62-33 leaves the penalty to the code's general provision: "Any person violating this article shall be punished as provided in section 1-12." So for a Holly Springs household the mattress answer is set entirely by whichever private hauler they have engaged, or by a drop-off. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 62 sets no set-out window, no bulky-item rule and no mattress rule of any kind, and the city maintains no list of permitted or approved haulers, so a resident has no city-published guidance on who to call. Not confirmed: Sec. 62-33 refers the penalty to Sec. 1-12 of the code, whose fine range was not read. Not confirmed: The city publishes no illegal-dumping penalty specific to solid waste.
• The only disposal route the City of Holly Springs itself points residents to is the county's, and it says in the city's own words that household waste there is chargeable. The city's Recycling page states: "Cherokee County has two official recycling stations. Recyclables such as food and beverage cans, plastic bottles and containers, flattened cardboard, and paperboard are accepted at no cost to residents of Cherokee County. Bagged trash, appliances, and other household waste may be accepted for a fee. For a complete listing of hours of operation, fees, and other important information, please visit the Cherokee County Recycling Center website." The page names no city facility and no city drop-off day, which is consistent with the code's statement that residents contract privately. It also points residents to Keep Cherokee Beautiful, "a non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to litter reduction, civic involvement, beautification, and education", for its Adopt a Mile program. Source Not confirmed: The city's page names no mattress fee and does not say whether a mattress is among the "other household waste" accepted for a fee; the county's own rate card is the source for that. Not confirmed: The city lists no drop-off inside Holly Springs itself, so residents must travel to a county station.
• Holly Springs Public Works publishes what it does do, and household waste collection is not among it. The department's page describes it as "responsible for providing many of the basic public services that contribute to the overall quality of life in the Holly Springs community" and lists its services as bridge maintenance, capital improvement projects, Christmas tree recycling, city parking lot maintenance, city vehicle fleet maintenance, issuing construction, sidewalk and right-of-way permits, parks maintenance, right-of-way maintenance and repair, storm drain maintenance and repairs, street sign maintenance and repair, subdivision and site development review, traffic signal and sign maintenance, and tree trimming. Alongside the stormwater department it maintains over 64 miles of street and 188,046 feet of storm drains. The one waste-adjacent service it advertises is seasonal: "Christmas tree recycling". The office is at 3237 Holly Springs Parkway, Holly Springs, GA 30142, open Monday through Friday 8 am to 5 pm, at 770-345-5536. The absence of refuse collection from this list is recorded as consistent with the code, not as the evidence for it — Chapter 62's editor's note is what establishes that residents contract privately. Source Not confirmed: The service list is introduced as "Other services provided by" the department and is not presented as exhaustive, so its silence on refuse collection is an absence rather than a statement. Not confirmed: The department publishes no bulky-item, large-item or Christmas-tree-style collection day that a resident with a mattress could use.

• 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