How to get rid of a mattress in Mableton, 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.

• Mableton, incorporated only recently and the largest city in this group after Roswell, runs no collection of its own. Its Solid Waste page states plainly: "The City of Mableton does not provide direct residential or commercial solid waste services. Instead, solid waste services are managed by several hauling companies through City Council-approved waste hauling contracts. This method supports a competitive market and flexible services for our residents." Residents choose from the city's approved list: "If you are new to the area or looking to switch providers, please review the list of approved residential and commercial haulers below." The city is explicit about the limits of that list — "Inclusion on this list does not constitute endorsement by the City of Mableton"; "All service agreements, operations, and scheduling are strictly between the resident and the provider"; "Approved haulers retain the right to determine their own service areas"; and the list is refreshed "on a quarterly basis". Haulers are nevertheless bound by city law: "All approved solid waste haulers must adhere to the City of Mableton Solid Waste Management Ordinance, Chapter 12, in the Code of Ordinances." The city's sanitation contact also handles "Environmental Management Fees: Questions regarding environmental management fees applied to your waste hauling bill." Source Not confirmed: The city does not publish the rate of the environmental management fee applied to a resident's hauling bill on this page. Not confirmed: Chapter 12 of the Mableton Code of Ordinances is not published on the city's own website and Mableton does not appear on Municode, so its bulky-item, set-out and littering provisions could not be read from a primary source. Not confirmed: Because collection is an open market, no mattress price is set by the city and no approved hauler's Mableton mattress rate is published on a city page.
• Mableton's own bulky-item page hands the question straight back to the resident, and names no fee and no site. It sets out four routes: curbside collection — "Contact your waste hauler directly to check availability, fees, and scheduling for bulk pickups"; self-haul — "Search online for local state-permitted facilities to self-haul items, verify hours, and check drop-off fees"; donation — "Donate gently used items to local charities, thrift organizations, or online neighborhood networks"; and special events — "Check the City calendar and newsletter for periodic community cleanup days and hard-to-recycle drop-off events." The page names no facility, no charge and no mattress rule of any kind, and does not state that the city collects bulky items. For a Mableton reader the practical consequence is that the answer is set by whichever approved hauler they have contracted with, not by the city. Source Not confirmed: The city names no drop-off facility, no fee and no mattress policy on its bulky-item page. Not confirmed: No dates or terms are published for the "periodic community cleanup days and hard-to-recycle drop-off events" the page refers to, so it is not established whether any of them accept a mattress.
• Mableton's approved-hauler directory names the eight companies a resident may lawfully use, with contact details, and nothing else: American Disposal Services of Georgia (678-720-0500), Arrow Waste (770-441-3037), Diamond Disposal (404-542-6026), GFL Environmental (770-577-3545), Republic Services (404-693-9200), Trash Taxi of Georgia (770-975-0926), Waste Pro (770-777-1477) and WM (404-794-6707). The directory is filtered by the city into "Residential Waste Haulers" and "Commercial Waste Haulers" categories. No hauler entry in the directory carries a rate, a bulky-item allowance or a mattress charge, so a Mableton resident cannot compare mattress prices from the city's own published information. Source Not confirmed: The directory publishes no rates, bulky-item allowances or mattress charges for any approved hauler. Not confirmed: The directory does not state which of the eight companies serve which Mableton neighborhoods, and the city's own disclosure says haulers set their own service areas.

• 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