How to get rid of a mattress in Peachtree City, 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.

• Peachtree City, Georgia (Fayette County; not Peachtree Corners in Gwinnett) runs no collection of its own. It licenses private companies on a non-exclusive franchise: the Garbage & Recycling page lists three approved residential curbside companies, Pollard Residential Waste Services (770-599-1811), Republic Services (404-693-9200) and GFL Environmental (770-474-9273), says "Rates are set by the companies" with the base rate including recycling, and adds a $12.00 per year city franchise fee on each quarterly bill. Neighborhoods may negotiate lower rates. On bulk: "Companies may offer bulk waste pickup at an additional charge", where bulk waste is described as white goods, "furniture", loose brush over four feet or four inches thick, auto parts "and other oversize wastes which are customary to ordinary housekeeping operations of a Residential Unit". The page says to check each company for extra carts, yard debris, bulky waste and backdoor service. A mattress is not named, and no price is published by the City. Source Not confirmed: A mattress or box spring is not named on the page; only "furniture" is in the bulk definition. Not confirmed: The City publishes no bulk-pickup price, item limit or booking step: each of the three franchisees sets its own, and none of the three companies' own pages was read for a mattress rule. Not confirmed: Which of the three companies serves a given street is not stated by the City. Not confirmed: No disposal or recycling outcome is stated.
• Peachtree City's standard Solid Waste Collection Agreement and its addendum, the template every franchised hauler signs (the copy on the City site has the company name and dates blank, the addendum refers to 2012), name the mattress, as trash and not as bulk. The addendum's definition of Rubbish/Trash lists "used and discarded mattresses, used and discarded clothing" among the waste materials a franchisee collects; separately "Bulky Waste" is "White Goods, furniture, loose brush greater than four (4) feet ..." and is an Excluded Material, and paragraph 2 says the franchisee "shall have no obligation to collect any Bulky Waste ... but may provide any such services to residents upon request ... upon terms acceptable to Franchisee and such resident." Section 3.3 requires waste, recycling and yard debris "placed at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on the designated collection day", and Section 4.1 bars collection before 7:00 a.m. or after 7:00 p.m. Section 2.1 says a franchisee "may also offer curbside collection of bulky waste". Residential refuse in carts "must be bagged". Source Not confirmed: Whether a mattress falls under Rubbish/Trash (collected in the base service) or Bulky Waste (optional, on terms with the resident) is not settled by the template: it names mattresses as trash but a mattress cannot go in a bagged cart, and the same document calls furniture bulky. Not confirmed: This is the City's blank template of the agreement; each signed agreement (Republic, Pollard, GFL/CLM) was not read for a different bulk clause. Not confirmed: No earliest set-out time is stated in the template, only the 7:00 a.m. deadline. Not confirmed: No price is published for any bulk service.
• Peachtree City operates two recycling stations for residents, free of charge, and neither lists a mattress. The McIntosh Trail Recycling Facility at 209 McIntosh Trail takes cardboard (boxes broken down), mixed newspapers and magazines, glass and aluminum beverage cans, open Tuesday through Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Monday (hours from March 1, 2025). The Rockaway Road Compost Facility at 100 Meade Field Drive is for yard material, Wednesday 1 to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., "restricted to PTC Residents ONLY". The code's own list for the recycling center (Sec. 42-84) is organic material plus advertised recyclables, cardboard, magazines, newspapers, aluminum cans, plastics and glass. A mattress is on neither the page's nor the code's list. Source Not confirmed: A mattress is absent from an exhaustive-looking list; that is an absence, not a stated refusal, and no mattress rule is published for either station. Not confirmed: The Boy Scout Troop 211 site behind Braelinn Shopping Center takes aluminum cans only.
• Peachtree City's Code of Ordinances Chapter 42 (Health and Sanitation), Sec. 42-43, prohibits dumping or leaving "litter, garbage, garden trash, brush or rubbish" on any public or private property in the city unless the property is designated for the purpose, the material goes into a receptacle, or the person owns or is authorized to use the property. A violation is a misdemeanour punished by a fine of not less than $300.00 and not exceeding $1,000.00, by imprisonment of up to 90 days, or by an order to pick up litter along a public road for up to a mile. Sec. 42-38 to 42-42 make unclean premises a nuisance with a notice, correction and cost-recovery route. Unlike Newnan, Stockbridge and Tyrone, whose littering fines start at $200, Peachtree City's floor is $300. Source Not confirmed: The chapter sets no set-out window for bulk waste; the City's franchise template sets 7:00 a.m. only for carts, and the ordinance requirements PDF linked from the Garbage & Recycling page was not read. Not confirmed: No apartment, HOA or covenant restriction on bulk waste was read. Not confirmed: The general penalty in Sec. 1-11, to which Sec. 42-2 refers, was not read.
• Not an option: Goodwill of North Georgia's "Items We Do and Don't Accept" page lists "Mattresses" and "Box springs" under "ITEMS WE CANNOT ACCEPT". Its donation-center locator lists two centers in Peachtree City, East Peachtree City at 2100 Highway 54 and South Peachtree City at 1200 Highway 74, Peachtree City, GA 30269 (and two in Fayetteville), so the obvious charity donation stops here will turn a used mattress away. Source Not confirmed: The locator page and the items page were read on 2026-09-29; the centers' own hours were not recorded. Not confirmed: Whether a Habitat for Humanity ReStore serving Fayette County takes a mattress was not established; no ReStore page was found. Not confirmed: The Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta, which does take mattresses, limits its pickup area to Cobb, Gwinnett, Fulton and DeKalb (recorded at county level).
• Goodwill of North Georgia's Donation Center Locations page lists two donation centers in Peachtree City, East Peachtree City at 2100 Highway 54 and South Peachtree City at 1200 Highway 74, both Peachtree City, GA 30269. It is the obvious charity donation stop in Peachtree City, Georgia; Goodwill's own items page lists mattresses and box springs as not accepted (see the refusal recorded for this city). Source Not confirmed: The locator page was read on 2026-09-29 and the center's hours were not recorded. Not confirmed: The locator is a search results list and its entries were read from the page as loaded.

• 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