How to get rid of a mattress in Tyrone, 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.

• Tyrone's Code of Ordinances Chapter 32 (Solid Waste) sets the penalties for dumping. Sec. 32-2: penalties are set by the municipal court judge "provided, however, that no fine shall be less than $200.00 nor more than $1,200.00", plus reimbursement of the Town's litter-removal cost, and the court may order the offender to pick up litter along a public road for up to a mile or on other property. Sec. 32-9 and 32-10 prohibit dumping and littering on any public or private property in the town, and Sec. 32-11 makes an unauthorized accumulation of solid waste a violation, with residential garbage and trash to be collected and disposed of as the chapter describes. The chapter has no bulk-item or mattress section and no set-out window for bulk items. Source Not confirmed: No set-out window for bulk items appears in the chapter; the only time given elsewhere is carts at the curb by 7:00 AM (contract). Not confirmed: The maximum penalty in Sec. 1-7, which Sec. 32-2 refers to, was not read; the $200 to $1,200 fine range is the chapter's own. Not confirmed: No apartment or HOA restriction was 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". Goodwill of North Georgia's donation-center locator lists a center in Tyrone at 130 St. Stephens Court, Tyrone, GA 30290, so the obvious local charity donation stop in Tyrone will turn a used mattress away. Source Not confirmed: The locator page and the items page were read on 2026-09-29; the Tyrone center's own hours were not recorded. Not confirmed: No other Tyrone reuse outlet was checked. 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 a donation center in Tyrone at 130 St. Stephens Court, Tyrone, GA 30290. It is the obvious charity donation stop in Tyrone, 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