How to get rid of a mattress in Flushing, 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.

• Flushing's ordinance names a mattress outright and then never provides a way to collect one. Chapter 50, Garbage, of the Code of Flushing, codified through Ordinance No. 2025-02 enacted January 13, 2025, defines the term at Section 50.10: "Bulk item means large pieces of furniture, bed springs, mattresses, appliances, and other discarded materials incidental to the usual routine of major housekeeping." The same section defines "Rubbish" at length - "large pieces of furniture, bed springs, storm doors and windows, metal furniture, refrigerators, stoves, washers, dryers, dishwashers, air conditioning units, furnaces, humidifiers and dehumidifiers, hot water heaters, water closets, toilets, bathtubs, sinks, carpets and pads, railroad ties, fences or fence posts, and other discarded material incident to the usual routine of housekeeping" - and a mattress is absent from that second list although bed springs appear in both. Nowhere does the chapter say a bulk item is collected, how often, on what notice, or at what price. What it does set is a size the item cannot meet. Section 50.16(3) provides: "Rubbish and garbage must be placed in the same containers. Containers, bags or bundles will not exceed 60 pounds each. Any material which will not conveniently fit inside containers must be collected and tied into bundles not to exceed four feet in length." A twin mattress is 75 inches long and a queen or king 80 inches, so every size exceeds a four-foot bundle, and Section 50.16(5) closes the alternative: "Approved garbage cans are the only receptacle permitted for the storage or disposal of garbage and rubbish." Section 50.16(1) limits a household to "one to three approved watertight containers of not more than 30-gallon capacity" or properly secured trash bags, and 50.16(4) sets the set-out rule: containers stay on private property except on the collection day itself, go out at the front curb line or the nearest abutting street, and must be back on private property by 8:00 a.m. the following day. The route out is Section 50.21: "Supplemental agreements may be entered into between the property owners or tenants and the contractor or other refuse service properly licensed by the city covering additional service." The City's charge for ordinary collection is not a per-item price at all: Section 50.19 sets rates "by contract with the contractor on an annual basis" and bills them on the summer tax statement, payable by September 30, with Section 50.20 assessing anything six months unpaid as a tax on the next roll. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 50 defines a bulk item to include mattresses but never provides for collecting one, sets no allowance, no notice period and no fee, so what Flushing charges to take a mattress is not established Not confirmed: Section 50.21 points residents at a supplemental agreement with the contractor for additional service and no price for such an agreement is published Not confirmed: The ordinance speaks of the occupant of "any premises" and never says whether a tenant in a multi-unit building is served by the city contract Not confirmed: Whether the four-foot bundle limit in Section 50.16(3) is enforced against an item the code itself calls a bulk item is not stated
• Flushing is split in two by the Flint River for collection purposes, and that is the only operational detail the City publishes. Its 2026 collection calendar, issued by Waste Management under the heading "CITY OF FLUSHING" and linked from the City's Trash, Brush Pick Up & Recycling page, states: "Monday is trash service daty for residents south of the Flint River." and "Tuesday is trash service day for residents north of the Flint River.", each with the note "Recycle is serviced on the days highlighted yellow." Yard waste is "serviced on your trash service day April 13th-November 10th." The holiday rule is printed in full: "WM will be closed on the following 2026 Holidays: NEW YEARS DAY (1/1/26), MEMORIAL DAY (5/25/26), INDEPENDENCE DAY (FALLS ON SATURDAY. WE WILL WORK OUR NORMAL MONDAY - FRIDAY SCHEDULE), LABOR DAY (9/7/26), THANKSGIVING DAY: 11/26/26, CHRISTMAS DAY (12/25/26)", and "IF YOUR SERVICE DAY FALLS ON OR FOLLOWS ONE OF THESE OBSERVED HOLIDAYS, YOUR SERVICE WILL BE DELAYED BY ONE DAY FOR THAT" week. The calendar is twelve month grids and three notes; it carries no bulk-item section, no accepted or not-accepted list, no mattress, no fee and no scheduling step. The City's own page beside it holds nothing but that calendar, a brush pick-up page, a drug take-back bin and a link out to the county drop-off directory. Brush chipping is scheduled by appointment through City Hall at 725 E Main St., Flushing, MI 48433, 810.659.5665, open Monday through Friday 9am to 4:30pm, for trees less than four inches in diameter. Source Not confirmed: Neither the City nor the hauler publishes any bulk-item or large-item rule for Flushing: no allowance, no fee, no notice period and no mattress policy appears on the calendar or on the City's collection pages Not confirmed: The calendar does not say whether multi-unit buildings north or south of the river are on the city route Not confirmed: Whether a large item set out on the regular service day is taken at all is not stated anywhere the City publishes
• Flushing has a separate ordinance aimed squarely at the pile of furniture and bedding left at the curb after an eviction, and it bills the property owner for it the same week. Chapter 50a, Personal Property in Lawns and Rights-of-Way, adopted by Ord. No. 50a on August 11, 2008, opens at Section 50a.01: the city council "does hereby declare that the act of a person removing personal property from a residential or commercial property and placing same in the front lawn or street right-of-way abutting said property as a result of a foreclosure proceeding or eviction without said person complying with chapter 50 is detrimental to the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the city." Section 50a.02 then provides: "It is hereby declared by the city council that the placement of personal property in the front yard or in the abutting street right-of-way of a residential or commercial property within the city is a public nuisance, unless a permit is obtained under section 99.01. This chapter shall take precedence over any other nuisance provisions of this Code." Section 50a.03 requires anyone clearing a property after a foreclosure or eviction to "strictly comply with chapter 50", the collection ordinance. The abatement is immediate rather than noticed: under Section 50a.05 the city manager attempts to contact the owner from the City's own records and advise that "abatement of the nuisance shall be completed forthwith", and under Section 50a.06 the city manager personally views it and, if it "requires immediate abatement", takes the steps to abate it. Section 50a.07 puts the whole cost on the owner or the occupants with an itemized bill, and Section 50a.04 requires the City Clerk to publish an annual newspaper notice warning that any such cost "will be charged as a special assessment against the subject property and placed upon the tax rolls for collection." Source Not confirmed: The chapter never prices abatement; the cost is whatever the City incurs, charged as a special assessment, and no schedule or rate is published Not confirmed: Section 50a.02 excepts property placed under a permit obtained under section 99.01 and that permit section was not read, so what it allows and what it costs 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