How to get rid of a mattress in Davison, 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.

• Davison is the one town around Flint whose hauler publishes no bulk allowance for it at all. Priority Waste's service page for the City of Davison states: "Priority Waste is proud to partner with The City of Davison to provide top-quality waste and disposal services." and, under Service Days, "Mondays". That is the whole of the service block. Where the same company's pages for its other Genesee County municipalities carry a "Bulk Pick Up/Special Pick Up" line setting an allowance, Davison's carries none, and the 2026 collection calendar it links - headed "CITY OF DAVISON", twelve month grids with "Trash Only", "Trash & Recycle", "Holiday" and "Yard Waste" keys - says only that "If your service day falls on or after a holiday, your service will be delayed one day later.", that "Yard Waste is weekly April-November", and that the "First yard waste pick-up is April 6th and last yard waste pick up is day is November 30th." The City's own Trash/Recycling page adds nothing on large items: it names Priority Waste at 586-228-1200 or 855-927-8365, tells residents to have trash, recycling and yard waste at the curb before 7 a.m. on the service day or the night before, and then gives yard waste limits only - not longer than four feet, not thicker than two inches in diameter, not heavier than 40 pounds, in biodegradable paper leaf bags, marked yard waste cans with sticks not extending over the height of the container, or bundled, with bags and cans not to weigh more than 50 pounds. Priority Waste's company-wide Bulk Waste Pick Up Guidelines do list "Mattresses & Box Springs" among Accepted Items with the note "*should be placed in a mattress bag or wrapped in plastic", but those guidelines are written for the company rather than for this city, and nothing published for Davison adopts them or sets an allowance, a notice step or a price. Davison Township is a separate government that contracts with a different hauler, so bulk instructions bearing the Davison name may not be the city's. City Hall is at 200 E Flint Street, Davison, MI 48423, 810-653-2191. Source Not confirmed: No bulk-item allowance, notice step or fee is published for the City of Davison by the City or by its hauler, so whether a large item is collected at the curb here at all is not established Not confirmed: The mattress acceptance and wrapping note come from Priority Waste's company-wide guidelines, which nothing published for Davison adopts Not confirmed: The City publishes set-out and weight limits for yard waste only, and says nothing about how a large item should be set out Not confirmed: Where a collected item goes is not stated, so whether Davison's route ends in recycling, reuse or disposal is not established
• Davison's ordinance hands every substantive question to the hauler and then does something almost no small-city code does: it puts garden apartments and townhouses on the curb by name. Chapter 1060, Garbage and Refuse Collection and Disposal, as amended by Ord. 2021-02 passed April 26, 2021, defines the category a mattress would sit in entirely by reference: "Household waste means all other household wastes allowable for placement in a qualified landfill as per the current waste provider's rules." Yard waste and recycling waste are defined the same way, each ending "as per the current waste provider's rules." The chapter's editor's note explains why: "The City contracts annually for residential garbage and rubbish collection and disposal service. Commercial and industrial enterprises contract for such services independently of the City." Section 1060.01(b)(1)(B) is the apartment answer: "The occupants of a residential unit, including occupants within a multiple-family dwelling unit including garden apartments and townhouse structures, shall place or cause to be placed such containers, pending collection, at the curb line or, if there is no curb line, at the edge of the nearest public street fronting the dwelling unit, or if provided on-site, in an enclosed waste disposal container provided by a private collector. At no time shall household waste be placed in the street." The set-out window is at (b)(1)(A): out "after noon (12:00 p.m.) of the day preceding the designated collection day", containers in "prior to noon (12:00 p.m.) the following day", with excess bagged waste allowed in a non-rigid container only if set out after 6:00 a.m. on the collection day itself. Everything must be "bagged and placed in rigid containers" with a secured lid while stored on site. There is one street-level exception at Section 1060.03(b)(2): non-commercial uses in the C-1 district, including residences above the ground floor, may have curbside collection, except on "lots with frontage on North Main Street that are bounded to the north by East Third Street and by the railroad tracks to the south", which are excluded to preserve the walkable downtown. Enforcement is Section 1060.01(e): waste at the curb in violation "may be removed by the City at a cost to be assessed to the occupant or property owner" and "Assessed fees for removal of waste shall be placed on the next general tax roll and collected as a part of the general City taxes"; an accumulation in violation of the chapter "is hereby declared to be a nuisance", abatable on notice of not more than five days, or fewer if public health is endangered, with failure to comply subjecting the person to "prosecution for a misdemeanor". The rate is a periodic charge, not a per-item price: Section 1060.02 levies a collection services charge "on all residential premises which generate less than two cubic yards of refuse per week", at rates "from time to time adjusted by resolution of the City Council", which the City Treasurer may add to the property tax bill. Chapter 674 carries the littering provisions, Section 674.11(b) making it unlawful to leave in any street, alley, public place or sidewalk, or on any private premises, any "shavings, paper, dirt, rubbish, filth" or "any other offensive article or substance". Source Not confirmed: Chapter 1060 defines household waste wholly by reference to "the current waste provider's rules" and those rules are not published for Davison, so the ordinance establishes no bulk allowance, no limit and no fee Not confirmed: The code never names a mattress, a bulky item or a large item anywhere Not confirmed: The rate levied under Section 1060.02 is a periodic charge on residential premises generating less than two cubic yards a week and is not a price for taking any single item Not confirmed: The misdemeanor penalty at Section 1060.99 and the general penalty at Section 674.99 were not read, so the fine for leaving an item at the curb in violation is not 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