How to get rid of a mattress in Burton, MI.

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.

• Burton contracts its curbside collection out and publishes no bulk-item rule anywhere a reader can see it. The City's Waste Collection page is four sentences long in full: "The City of Burton uses EMTERRA Environmental for curbside trash pick-up, recycling, and yard waste removal. If you are NEW to BURTON and need to know your trash day or have questions, contact us at City Hall at 810-743-1500 or CLICK HERE for more information!" and then "Complaints about trash collection? Contact Dan Garman at 810-397-0610 or dan@crcminc.com". The "CLICK HERE" link points to a Microsoft Word file named Emterra Rules, hosted on the City's own site, and that file is the only place the City publishes collection rules. It could not be read: the City's server refuses the document to anything but an interactive browser session, the browser pane was denied the download, and no second copy of the rules exists on the City's site or on the hauler's. So Burton's allowance, its limit, its fee past that limit, its notice period, its set-out window, whether a mattress must be bagged or wrapped, and whether an apartment dweller is served are all unpublished in readable form. The City's Department of Public Works is at 4093 Manor Dr., Burton, MI 48519, phone 810-742-9230, open Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM; City Hall is at 4303 South Center Road and opens Monday through Friday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Burton adjoins Flint on three sides, and Flint's own bulk program is not Burton's. Source Not confirmed: The City's only published collection rules are in a Word document on its own site that the server will not serve to a reader outside an interactive browser session, so no bulk-item allowance, limit, fee, notice period or set-out window is established for Burton Not confirmed: Whether Emterra Environmental collects a mattress at the curb in Burton, and whether it must be bagged or wrapped first, is not published by the City or by the hauler for this city Not confirmed: Whether a tenant in a multi-unit building in Burton receives the City's collection is not stated anywhere Not confirmed: Where a collected item goes is not stated, so whether Burton's route ends in recycling, reuse or disposal is not established
• Burton's code never regulates household collection at all, and the only part of it a resident disposing of a mattress can break is the littering chapter. The Code of Ordinances, supplement current through February 2, 2026, has no garbage, refuse or solid waste chapter in any title: Title V Public Works holds only Chapter 50 General Utility Provisions, Chapter 51 Water and Chapter 52 Sewers, and Title IX General Regulations holds only Streets and Sidewalks, Health and Sanitation; Nuisances, Fire Prevention and Cost Recovery. What does exist is Chapter 142, Littering, in Title XIII. Section 142.01(A) provides: "It is unlawful for a person knowingly, without the consent of the public authority having supervision of public property or the owner of private property, to dump, deposit, place, throw, or leave, or cause or permit the dumping, depositing, placing, throwing, or leaving of litter on public or private property or water other than property designated and set aside for those purposes." The property it covers is defined broadly at 142.01(B): "Includes, but is not limited to, the right-of-way of a road or highway, parking lots and parking areas, a body of water or watercourse, or the shore or beach thereof, including the ice above the water; a park, playground, building, refuge, or conservation or recreation area; and residential or farm properties or timberlands." Section 142.04(B)(1) separately makes it unlawful to deposit garbage or offensive substances on any street, alley, public place or private property unless contained in covered watertight receptacles. The penalty is in Section 142.07: "In addition to the criminal penalties set forth in Section 130.02, littering may be treated as a municipal civil infraction. A violation of a municipal civil infraction shall subject the offender to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $750." That section was adopted by Ord. 2024-02-142.07; 144.08, passed April 15, 2024. Section 142.06 adds that the court "may direct litter-gathering labor" in place of or on top of any other sentence. Source Not confirmed: Burton's code contains no chapter on household collection, so no set-out window, container rule, bulk allowance or wrapping requirement is set by ordinance Not confirmed: The criminal penalty cross-referenced at Section 130.02 was not read, so only the civil infraction range of $100 to $750 is established

• WDS 450267, MIG000025706 regulatory page gives 6999 County Road 487, Atlanta MI 49709, versus operator 6751 Landfill Rd in inv5-005. Specific/legal names also have apparent spelling variants. Same named authority is an identity candidate; parcel/entrance/address equivalence unproven. Preserve both addresses. Source
• EGLE (July 27, 2026) says many Michigan communities host annual collection events for hard-to-dispose items including mattresses, lists summer–fall 2026 events, and points to EGLE's collection directory at Michigan.gov/egleHHW. No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on EGLE pages as of 2026-09-22. Source