How to get rid of a mattress in East Lansing, MI.

If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.

Casper

Free

Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. Source

Purple

Free

Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source

Raymour & Flanigan

Free

New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source

Rooms To Go

Free

New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across East Lansing and its neighbors.

• Ingham County publishes no waste collection of its own. The county's solid waste function sits with the Environmental Health division of the Ingham County Health Department, and its Waste Management page is a page of links rather than a service: where to dispose of or recycle items, household hazardous waste, sharps disposal, the locations of recycling and transfer stations in the county, illegal dumping and solid waste complaints, the Solid Waste Management Plan, mercury spill response and pollution prevention. There is no county pickup to book, no county site to drive to and no county fee schedule, and the page never uses the words bulky, furniture or mattress. A reader who comes to the county with a mattress is sent back to their own town or to a private hauler. Source Not confirmed: Ingham County publishes no free dump day, amnesty event or disposal voucher; nothing of the kind appears on the Health Department's waste pages.
• The county's own list of drop-off sites carries no mattress route. "Residential Recycling Sites in Ingham County," the Ingham County Health Department's table, updated February 14, 2018, names nine places with addresses and hours: East Lansing Department of Public Works, 1800 East State Road, East Lansing, 24 hours, 7 days a week; MSU Recycling Center, 468 Green Way, East Lansing, 24 hours, 7 days a week; Meridian Recycling Center, 5976 East Lake Drive, Haslett, Monday and Friday 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; a Dart Container polystyrene drop-off at 2148 Depot Road, Holt; Delhi Township Recycling Center, 1414 Grovenburg Road, Holt, Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. and weekends 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; a second Dart Container polystyrene drop-off at 3120 West Howell Road, Mason; Williamston Transfer Station, 2450 East Grand River Avenue, Williamston, Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Lansing Recycling Drop-Off, 16936 Wood Road, Lansing, Driveway No. 6; and Lansing Recycling Center, 5507 South Cedar Street, Lansing, Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Every column in the table is a container or paper grade - aluminum, steel cans, brown glass, clear glass, #1 plastics, #2 plastics, cardboard, magazines, mixed paper, newspaper, phone books and polystyrene. Not one site is listed as taking a mattress, a box spring or any bulky item, and the county adds no price for one anywhere. Source Not confirmed: The county's table is dated February 14, 2018 and covers recyclable grades only. Whether the Williamston Transfer Station or any other site on it will take a self-hauled mattress as trash, and at what price, is published neither by the county nor on the operators' own pages reached from it. Not confirmed: Mattresses are absent from a list of accepted materials rather than named as refused, so this is a gap in the county's published answer, not a refusal by any of these sites.
• Ingham County owns no landfill and no transfer station. Its draft Materials Management Plan for 2027-2031, prepared by the county's Office of Environmental Sustainability, states that "All waste generated within Ingham County is taken to landfills out of the county," with 80 percent of the waste disposed in 2023 going to the Granger Wood Street Landfill, 16500 Wood Road, Lansing, which the plan places "in neighboring Clinton County," and the remainder to landfills in Shiawassee, Calhoun, Clinton, Genesee, Ionia and Barry counties. The plan's own table of in-county transfer stations names four: Ingham County Transfer Station, 2450 Grand River Road, Williamston; Daggett Processing and Recycling Transfer Station, 1010 E. Sheridan Road, Lansing; Lansing Recycling Center, LLC, 5507 S. Cedar Street, Lansing; and Meridian Township Transfer Station, 5976 Lake Drive, Haslett. The plan describes none of the four as county owned or county operated, and the county sets no price at any of them - the name of the Ingham County Transfer Station is not county ownership. Source Not confirmed: None of the four in-county transfer stations publishes a public self-haul rate card or a mattress policy on its own pages. Not confirmed: No mattress recycler could be established in or near Ingham County: the draft plan's facility tables name none, and no operator in the county publishes mattress processing.
• Collection in Ingham County is a town or a hauler matter, and the county says so itself. Its draft Materials Management Plan records that "Ingham County is serviced by five waste and recycling haulers: Granger Waste Services, City of East Lansing DPW, Capital Area Recycling & Trash (CART), Daggett Container, and WM," that "Curbside trash service is available to all County residents, regardless of their chosen hauler," and that "Ingham County does not endorse any specific waste and recycling haulers over another and encourages residents to choose the hauler that best meets their needs." On recycling it records that "Non-subscription curbside recycling is provided directly by six communities within the County," that "The Cities of Lansing and East Lansing both directly provide municipally-managed curbside recycling collection programs for their residents in 96-gallon carts," and that "The City of Leslie, City of Mason, City of Williamston, and Village of Stockbridge all have contracts with Granger Waste Services." Everyone else "must reach out to subscribe with the service provider directly." The county collects nothing itself and sets no bulky item or mattress program, so the terms that matter are the reader's own town's or their own hauler's. Source
• What Ingham County does run is a seasonal household chemical drop-off, and it takes no mattresses. The Health Department's household hazardous waste collection is at 5303 South Cedar Street, Lansing, behind the Human Services Building; call the Health Department at 517-887-4312. It is "Free for Ingham County Residents" and "Wastes Generated from Businesses are Not accepted." In 2026 it ran every Tuesday and Thursday from May 5 through September 29, 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., with nothing taken before 2:00 p.m., and it closes for county holidays and bad weather. It accepts acids and bases, aerosol products, antifreeze and automotive fluids, cleaners and polishes, flammables and gasoline, fluorescent lights and ballasts, fuel oil, mercury-containing devices, oil-based paints, stains and thinners, pesticides and herbicides, photographic chemicals, rechargeable batteries, sharps in a puncture-resistant container, one-pound propane tanks and wood preservatives. Hazardous material must arrive in containers such as plastic bins or cardboard boxes, and bags are not accepted. Appliances and electronics are listed as not accepted. This chemicals program is the only drop-off Ingham County itself operates, and a mattress has no place in it. Source Not confirmed: The household hazardous waste program neither accepts nor refuses a mattress by name; the item is simply outside a chemicals collection.