How to get rid of a mattress in Clawson, 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.

• Chapter 62 of the Clawson Code of Ordinances, codified through Ordinance No. 799 of May 21, 2026, contains no bulky-item provision whatever, and leaves every charge to the city manager. Section 62-42(b) says "All garbage collected within the city shall be collected at the expense of the owner and not at public expense. Based upon costs, the city manager shall fix and publicize rates for the collection of garbage within the city", and section 62-42(a) says the city manager "shall establish schedules and methods for the collection of all classes of refuse" and that information on "any charges therefor" shall be prepared by him and made available to residents. Section 62-43 bills for collection quarterly and adds a penalty charge of ten percent to any bill not paid before the first day of the month following the date of the bill. Section 62-33(a) requires residential receptacles for "garbage and combustible rubbish" to be "of not less than five-gallon nor more than 27-gallon capacity" with suitable handles. Section 62-36(a) says such containers "shall not be set out for collection prior to 6:00 p.m. preceding the day of collection, and after such receptacles are emptied, they shall be removed from the street on the same day collections are made." Section 62-41 makes it unlawful "to deposit, throw or bury any garbage, leaves, rubbish or other waste material in or upon any street, alley or other public place except in garbage or rubbish receptacles as provided in this chapter", and unlawful "to deposit, throw or leave such material on the premises of any other person." Source Not confirmed: The chapter sets no rate figure of any kind: the rates it commits the city manager to fix and publicize are not reproduced in the code, and no adopted schedule naming a bulk or mattress charge was found. Not confirmed: The code's 27-gallon residential receptacle limit differs from the 35-gallon limit the city's own trash page gives, and nothing found reconciles the two.
• Clawson sets no separate penalty inside its solid waste chapter, so a dumping or set-out violation falls under the general penalty at section 1-7 of the Code of Ordinances. Section 1-7(d) provides that, except as otherwise provided by law or ordinance, "a person convicted of a violation of this Code shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine not to exceed $500.00, imprisonment for a period of not more than 90 days, or both", rising to not more than 93 days where the provision substantially corresponds to a 93-day state misdemeanor, and makes a person convicted responsible for costs. Section 1-7(e) provides that for violations that are continuous with respect to time, each day the violation continues is a separate offense. Section 1-7(f) entitles the city to recover the cost of investigating and prosecuting a violation and court costs from the person convicted, and section 1-7(h) makes a continuing violation a public nuisance that may be abated by injunctive or other equitable relief. Source
• The nearest published self-haul answer for Clawson and the other southeastern Oakland County member towns is SOCRRA's Transfer Station at 991 Coolidge, Troy, MI 48084, between 14 Mile and Maple and across from Meijer, which SOCRRA's Locations, Hours, and Rates page describes as "TRASH DISPOSAL-NO APPOINTMENTS NEEDED BUT LIMITED DUMPING HOURS". It is open Saturdays 7AM-12:30PM for trash dumping and Monday through Friday 6AM-10AM for hand unloading. The published rate is "Effective July 1, 2025 - $75/ton with $50 minimum charge". No yard waste may be dumped at this facility and none of SOCRRA's facilities accept brush, branches or woody tree materials. Residents can text "UPDATES" to 833-597-1892 for closure alerts. The transfer station is a different site from the Recycling Drop-off Center next door at 995 Coolidge, which is "available by appointment only and ONLY to residents of our 12 SOCRRA communities" plus Bingham Farms, the City of Bloomfield Hills and Franklin Village, with Rochester and Rochester Hills residents admitted on a paper voucher bought from their city office and residency verified by an attendant. All SOCRRA sites are closed on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. SOCRRA's twelve member communities are Berkley, Beverly Hills, Birmingham, Clawson, Ferndale, Hazel Park, Huntington Woods, Lathrup Village, Oak Park, Pleasant Ridge, Royal Oak and Troy. Source Not confirmed: SOCRRA publishes no residency or member-community rule for trash dumping at the Transfer Station, in contrast to the appointment-only Drop-off Center next door, so it is not established whether a non-member resident may use it. Not confirmed: The page publishes no list of what the Transfer Station accepts and does not name mattresses or box springs, and sets no per-item price for one. Not confirmed: The page does not say how payment is taken or whether a household self-hauling a single item is weighed.

• 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