How to get rid of a mattress in Milton, 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.

• Milton runs no collection and awards no franchise: a household picks its own hauler from a city-permitted list. The city's Trash & Permitted Waste Haulers page states: "If you are looking for residential or commercial garbage service, the companies listed below are currently permitted to provide service in Milton." Eight residential haulers are named with their numbers: Custom Disposal (770-977-2788 or 888-977-2788), Legacy Disposal Services (770-764-2992), Henry Edward Kincaid (678-800-1356, with "Back-door pickup and neighborhood programs available"), Red Oak Sanitation (678-455-7819), Seegreen Services (770-608-4771), T N T Junk & Trash Removal (678-847-7216, "Back-door pickup available"), Waste Management (404-794-6707, "Neighborhood programs available") and Waste Pro (770-777-1447). Five commercial haulers are listed separately, including GFL Environmental and Republic Services. The city's regulatory hook is financial: "Solid Waste Collection Providers (or waste haulers) must submit an infrastructure maintenance fee form every quarter." Residents and prospective haulers are directed to solidwaste@miltonga.gov or 678-242-2500, and the page links Milton's Solid Waste Ordinance at Chapter 46 of the city code. Source Not confirmed: The city publishes no rates and no bulky-item or mattress terms for any permitted hauler, so a Milton household cannot compare mattress prices from the city's list. Not confirmed: The list does not state which haulers serve which parts of Milton. Not confirmed: Because Milton collects nothing itself, there is no city mattress price to record at all.
• Milton's answer to the local-rules question lives in Chapter 46 of its code, and it regulates the hauler rather than the household. Sec. 46-66 fixes the hours a truck may work: "Save and except as provided in this section, collection shall not start before 7:30 a.m. or continue after 7:30 p.m. at any location", with variances only on application to the city manager where collection causes no loud noise and no disturbance. The same section makes recycling compulsory on every residential hauler: "All companies providing residential service or service to residential multi-family units must provide a recycling program to all customers", listing the commodities that "must be offered in all programs" — "steel and tin cans; aluminum cans, foil, pie pans, plastic items (#1, #2, and #3); cardboard, cereal boxes, and any non-waxed paper containers; brown paper grocery bags; newspapers" — and adding that "Commodities may be commingled by the consumer and collected commingled by the hauler." Sec. 46-70 sets the charge that appears on a Milton resident's bill: the company "shall through the term of its operations collect an 'infrastructure maintenance fee' equal to five percent of the company's gross receipts to customers within the city (exclusive of sales tax)", and "The term 'infrastructure maintenance fee' shall be used on all bills, invoices, or statements sent by any company to a customer under this article." Sec. 46-26 makes it "unlawful for any person or persons to dump, deposit, throw or leave or to cause or permit the dumping, depositing, placing, throwing or leaving of litter on any public or private property in the City of Milton" unless the property is designated for the disposal of such litter or the litter is placed in a receptacle. Sec. 46-28 prices that: a violator shall be punished "By a fine of not less than $200.00 and not more than $1,000.00", shall "reimburse the City of Milton for the reasonable cost of removing the litter when the litter is or is ordered removed by the City of Milton", and "The court may publish the names of persons convicted of violating this article." The same section makes discarded post or paperwork bearing a name "a rebuttable presumption that such person has violated this article", so a dumped mattress found with a delivery label is evidence against the household it came from. Sec. 46-69 requires haulers to deliver waste to an EPD-permitted facility and recyclables "to a facility where recovery and reuse occurs". Source Not confirmed: Chapter 46 imposes no bulky-item or mattress obligation on haulers: it mandates a recycling program but says nothing about large items, so whether a Milton household's hauler must collect a mattress at all is not set by the city. Not confirmed: The chapter sets no curbside set-out window for the household — only the hours during which a hauler may collect.
• Because Milton collects nothing and its code requires nothing of haulers on large items, the nearest published mattress price for a Milton household is at a neighboring city's transfer station. The City of Roswell's page gives the site as "Roswell Transfer Station, 1810 Hembree Road, Alpharetta, GA 30009", open "Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.", and states that "As of July 1, 2025, the Roswell Transfer Station accepts non-construction materials from both residents and non-residents." Under the Non-Construction Waste Fee Schedule effective July 1, 2025, "Boxspring, Couch, Mattress" are "$20 Each" for a non-resident, the resident rate of "Free" being reserved to those who can show "Proof of residence within Roswell city limits". A Milton household therefore pays $20.00 per mattress and $20.00 per box spring. Construction and demolition material is "currently not accepted from non-residents", and the station refuses hazardous waste, yard waste and recyclables including appliances, electronics, tires and paint. Source Not confirmed: Roswell's page states no limit on the number of items a non-resident may bring in one visit. Not confirmed: The page does not say what happens to a mattress after drop-off, so the outcome is not established as recycling.

• 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