How to get rid of a mattress in Norcross, 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.

• Norcross buys collection for the whole city and allows exactly one bulky item a week, without ever saying whether a mattress is one. The city's sanitation page records that 'In 1988, Norcross converted from a city operated solid waste collection system to a privately operated system. The city offers refuse collection through a contractual agreement with Waste Management (formerly Advanced Disposal) for both residential and business collection', with residential garbage 'done once weekly at the curb', recycling weekly and yard waste on alternate weeks. On bulky items it states: 'Bulk Items are items that are too bulky to fit into the 95 gallon cart. Bulk items must be called in to the city and the contractor will collect the item on your normal scheduled collection day. This is limited to either one bulk household furniture item per week or up to 5 extra bags that will not fit in a trash cart per week, if scheduled at least before 3 p.m. the day prior to a customer's regularly scheduled pick-up day. Bulk items are household items only and do not include construction and demolition debris or automotive parts. Bulky items not normally accepted may be scheduled for pick-up by calling 678-495-0058 or online 24/7 through the SeeClickFix.' Two extra routes exist: 'Twice yearly Event Recycling provides Solid Waste customers opportunities to dispose of bulky items by taking them to the designated location', and back-door or side-yard pickup is provided to residential customers who are disabled, with medical certification required. Carts go out 'curbside the night before or by 6 a.m. on your collection day'. New or cancelled residential service goes through gga@norcrossga.net; missed pickups and bulk bookings through SeeClickFix or Waste Management at 678-495-0058. Public Works is at 345 Lively Avenue, Norcross GA 30071, which also hosts a glass recycling drop-off. Source Not confirmed: The weekly allowance is for 'one bulk household furniture item' and neither the city nor its contractor says on this page whether a mattress or box spring counts as one, so a Norcross resident cannot tell whether the free allowance covers their mattress. Not confirmed: If a mattress falls under 'Bulky items not normally accepted', the page gives a booking number but no fee for that route. Not confirmed: The dates, location and accepted items of the twice-yearly Event Recycling are not published on this page. Not confirmed: No limit is stated on how many weeks in a row the one-item allowance may be used, and no set-out rule specific to a bulky item is given.
• Norcross' current rate schedule prices the cart and never prices a bulky item. The City of Norcross 2026-2027 Solid Waste Rate Schedule, for service rendered on or after September 1, 2026, sets residential service of one trash and one recycling cart serviced weekly at '$30.86 per month ($370.32 charged annually with property taxes)' for owners under 62, '$15.43 per month ($185.16 charged annually with property taxes)' for owners residing at the address aged 62 and older, and '$11.01 per month' for each additional cart. Commercial cart service is $30.51 monthly for one 95-gallon cart collected weekly. The schedule then runs through front-end-loading containers, cardboard-only recycling containers, roll-offs at a $70.30 per ton disposal charge and compactors, and closes with a single line under 'Other Charges': 'Trip Charge/Dry Run/Relocate/Delivery: $190.46 per service'. No bulk-item, bulky-waste, furniture, mattress or special-pickup charge appears anywhere in the schedule. The city separately notes that from September 1, 2026 residential and commercial waste collection charges rose by 4.7 percent in line with the Consumer Price Index for water, sewer and trash services under its Waste Management contract, and that the discounted senior rate is applied automatically to residents granted a Gwinnett County senior homestead exemption, for which the application deadline is April 1 each year. Source Not confirmed: Because the schedule sets no bulk-item charge, whether the one-item weekly bulky allowance is covered by the $30.86 monthly residential rate is not stated; the absence of a charge is not the same as the city saying the collection is free. Not confirmed: No charge is published for the 'bulky items not normally accepted' route the sanitation page points residents to.

• 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