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

No price is published for a bulky item. The City's ordinance commits the City to the collection without setting a charge: § 13-39 provides that 'Large amounts of dirt, concrete, metal and bulky objects too large to place in containers must be separated and will be collected by the city forces as a special pickup. Residents having garbage requiring a special pickup shall notify the department of public works of the need for a special pickup. The department of public works shall inform the resident as to when the special pickup shall take place. Prior to the day of the scheduled pickup, the resident shall not place the rubbish for special pickup in the alley, the area between the sidewalks and the curb, or the street.' The City's code-adopted Fee Schedule, Appendix D, carries a Department of Public Works section covering only sewer and water fees and sets no refuse, bulk or special-pickup charge anywhere, so the charge is neither set nor expressly waived. The only fee the hauler publishes for Ecorse is $45.00 for a Freon-bearing item, which is not a mattress price. Furniture is inside the City's definition of what it collects: § 13-1 defines 'Domestic rubbish' as 'waste materials from normal household or living conditions such as paper, rags, bottles, tin cans, cardboard, worn-out clothing, furniture, excelsior and similar substances.' Set-out, under § 13-24 and § 13-25: receptacles go outside the sidewalk where collection is from the curb, or in the alley immediately adjacent to the property line where collection is from the alley, 'after 7:00 p.m. of the day preceding the day scheduled for collection,' and all empty receptacles must be removed the same day; 'All garden and domestic rubbish and garbage shall be kept in receptacles to be located within the rear property lines and shall not be visible from the street.' The City's DPW page gives two different curb times — 'by 7:00 am on your scheduled collection day or the night before' and 'no earlier than 6 p.m. the day before your pickup' — neither matching the ordinance, and adds that 'Trash purposely placed out late after the trucks have serviced the street will not be collected.' Collection hours under § 13-23 run from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Section 13-26 states that 'Rubbish shall not be collected from private property.' Residents are told to 'Place all rubbish in the cans provided to you by the City.' Section 13-38 excludes construction waste but makes an exception where a householder does his own work and pays no contractor, in which case 'the city will make special pickup upon call.' Section 13-22 bars collection crews from accepting money from the people they serve. Holiday weeks delay all pickups by one day across six holidays. Section 13-4 sets the enforcement order: a warning ticket first, and a person who then violates the chapter again is punished as provided in § 1-9. The chapter derives from an ordinance of August 26, 1975, amended August 6, 1980 and by Ordinance No. 15.09 of June 9, 2015; the code is current to April 2, 2026.

Not confirmed: Section 13-39 commits the City to collecting a bulky object and sets no charge for it, and the City's own code-adopted fee schedule contains no refuse or special-pickup line at all. The special pickup must not be called free.

Not confirmed: A mattress and a box spring are named nowhere by the City or by its hauler, in either direction. 'Furniture' in the § 13-1 definition of 'Domestic rubbish' is the nearest term.

Not confirmed: The hauler's weekly no-scheduling bulk run and the ordinance's notify-and-be-scheduled special pickup point different ways for an item too large for a can, and nothing published reconciles them.

Not confirmed: Section 13-39 sets no notice period: the resident notifies Public Works and Public Works names the day.

Not confirmed: The City's two published set-out times contradict each other and both differ from the ordinance's 7:00 p.m. rule.

Not confirmed: No weight or size cap is stated for a bulky object, no wrapping or bagging rule is published for one, and the code sets no cap on the number of special pickups a household may request.

Not confirmed: No outcome is published.

Not confirmed: The hauler's Ecorse page carries no date, and the City's yard waste section still references the 2024 season.

From the provider’s own page, checked Nov 7, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.

City of Ecorse, MI Code of Ordinances — Ch. 13 Garbage and Refuse (§§ 13-1 to 13-51)

Priority Waste — Ecorse, MI

Donors complete an online pickup request form and the team calls to confirm a date. Pickup is free when items are on a porch, in a garage or otherwise easily accessible; in-home pickup is $75, paid by check, money order, credit card or Venmo (no cash); premium removal services run $100 to $125 per item. Mattresses of any size qualify if clean, unstained, untorn, pet-hair-free and fully usable.

• $0 — Free pickup when the donated items are on a porch, in a garage or otherwise easily accessible.
• Plus $75 — In-home pickup surcharge, paid by check, money order, credit card or Venmo; cash is not accepted. Premium removal services are published only as a $100-$125 per item range and are not staged.

Not confirmed: The $100-$125 premium removal tier is published as a range without a per-item breakdown.

Not confirmed: No quantity limit per pickup is published.

From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 22, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.

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