How to get rid of a mattress in Winder, 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.

• Winder's Code of Ordinances Chapter 25 (Solid Waste) sets a different bulk rule from the City's web page, and the set-out and penalty rules. Sec. 25-49: "Bulk waste from residences may be placed at curbside for collection the last week of the month ... One (1) cubic yard will be collected per month for each active residential account at no additional charge"; bulk put out at another time, or over one cubic yard, "shall be picked up at a cost of fifty dollars ($50.00) per cubic yard and billed to the property's utility account" (a cubic yard being three feet by three by three). Sec. 25-45 defines bulky waste as items whose size or weight complicates normal collection, "Common examples are furniture, carpet, and appliances"; it names no mattress. Sec. 25-18(d): carts "shall not be permitted to be placed before 12:01 a.m. the day before the scheduled pickup or remain on the street after midnight of the day following", with a $25 fine per citation after a first warning. Sec. 25-20: a special service outside the chapter is billed on top of the monthly cost. Sec. 25-28 bars depositing garbage, trash or refuse on public easements, streets, sidewalks or vacant lots; Sec. 25-32 penalties run from $100 to $1,000 per violation, up to 30 days in jail, or both; Sec. 25-50 caps bulk-waste violations at $1,000 and 30 days; Sec. 25-61 (litter) sends violators to municipal court under Sec. 1-8. Sec. 25-104 gives the City exclusive collection. Source Not confirmed: The code's monthly last-week-of-the-month cubic-yard allowance and the web page's two-items-a-week allowance are both published by the City and are not reconciled; the code dates from 2013 (Ord. W-2-13), the page is undated. Not confirmed: The code names no mattress and does not say whether a mattress counts as bulk waste. Not confirmed: The fee for bulk over the allowance ($50 per cubic yard) is a volume charge, not a per-mattress price, and how many cubic yards a mattress is was not stated. Not confirmed: Sec. 1-8, the general penalty, was not read.
• Barrow County Habitat for Humanity's ReStore is at 579 Jefferson Hwy, Winder, GA 30680 (store phone 678-963-5000), open Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 12 noon, closed Friday. Its page says it "accepts donations of new and gently used furniture, appliances, building materials, home goods, and more", and that donors can "Drop off gently used items or schedule a pickup for larger donations". It publishes no accepted or not-accepted item list, and a mattress is not mentioned on the ReStore page or on the Habitat site's donate pages. Source Not confirmed: The ReStore publishes no mattress policy, so it cannot be listed as taking or refusing one. Not confirmed: No pickup area, fee or condition rule for the pickup is published.
• 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 a center in Winder at 39 East May Street, Winder, GA 30680, so the charity donation stop in the city will turn a used mattress away. Source Not confirmed: The locator page and the items page were read on 2026-09-29; the Winder center's hours were not recorded. Not confirmed: The Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta, which does take mattresses, limits its pickup area to Cobb, Gwinnett, Fulton and DeKalb, and Barrow is outside it (recorded at county level).
• Goodwill of North Georgia's Donation Center Locations page lists a donation center in Winder at 39 East May Street, Winder, GA 30680. It is the obvious charity donation stop in Winder, 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