How to get rid of a mattress in Grand Blanc, 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.

• Grand Blanc takes bulky items at the curb every week and caps them at a size no mattress made will fit. The City's Waste Collection page states: "Republic Services is the waste collection company for the City of Grand Blanc", with 800-438-0966 for questions, and sets the rule in one sentence: "Bulky items may be placed curbside each week for collection. Bulky Items must be bundled in parcels not to exceed two (2) feet by four (4) feet in size and/or fifty (50) pounds in weight." A twin mattress is 75 inches long, a queen or king 80 inches - over six feet either way - and a mattress runs 50 to 100 pounds, so a mattress exceeds both halves of the published limit and nothing on the page says what happens to one that does. The Republic Services flyer the City links beside it, headed "City of Grand Blanc Notification - Intended for residents located in the City of Grand Blanc", repeats the cap word for word in a Bulky Item Collection panel and gives its Prohibited Items in full: "dirt, sod or rock, hazardous waste of any kind, liquids of any kind including paint, flammable materials such as oil, or gas, concrete, hot ashes; yard waste of any kind, large amounts of remodeling or demolition materials, whole tires or any other material to be determined as prohibited by State Statute." A mattress appears on neither the accepted side nor the prohibited side. That flyer is old - it announces the move to two 95-gallon carts and tells residents to "refer to the new 2013 and 2014 calendars" - but its bulky rule is the one the City still prints today. Collection is Monday in blue carts, recycling every other week in blue carts with green lids; the cart goes out "NO LATER than 6:00 a.m. on Mondays" and comes back in "by midnight on your pickup day", stored out of sight from the street. Republic observes six holidays and only a Monday holiday moves the week, to Tuesday. The City runs its own Clean-Up Week twice a year - 2026 Spring Clean-Up Week May 4th through May 8th and 2026 Fall Clean-Up Week October 26th through October 30th - but the page describes that week solely as the DPW chipping loose branches four inches or less in diameter, not as a general amnesty. City Hall is at 203 East Grand Blanc Road, Grand Blanc MI 48439, 810-694-1118, Monday through Thursday 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM and closed on Friday. Grand Blanc Charter Township is a separate government about five times the city's size and its collection pages are not this city's. Source Not confirmed: A mattress exceeds the published two feet by four feet and fifty pound bulky-item limit at every size, and neither the City nor Republic Services says whether a mattress is collected anyway, refused, or charged for Not confirmed: No fee of any kind is published for a bulky item in Grand Blanc, and the City never calls the collection free Not confirmed: The Clean-Up Week described on the City's page covers loose branches collected by the DPW chipper; whether any other item may be set out during that week is not stated Not confirmed: Neither the page nor the flyer says whether a tenant in a multi-unit building receives the Republic Services curbside collection Not confirmed: The Republic Services flyer the City links still refers residents to 2013 and 2014 calendars, so which of its other details remain current is not established
• Grand Blanc's ordinance defines what the City collects as a closed list of small household items, and a mattress is not among them. Chapter 1060, Garbage and Refuse Collection and Disposal, as amended by Ord. 2512-07 passed January 14, 2026, provides at Section 1060.01: "RUBBISH. All ashes, magazines, newspapers, tin cans, glassware, bottles, small automobile parts and other like substances ordinarily discarded by householders." Furniture, bedding, appliances and mattresses appear nowhere in that definition or in the chapter's definition of garbage, which is confined to "Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food." The same section settles who is served, which the City's own collection page never does: "PREMISES. A single-family dwelling unit." and "UNIT. A single-family dwelling unit and includes each condominium unit and multi-family unit desiring curbside garbage and rubbish pick-up." Section 1060.03(b) states the other half of that: "Those multi-family dwelling units not desiring curbside pick-up shall provide for their own garbage and/or rubbish collection on at least a weekly basis." So an apartment or condominium in Grand Blanc may be on the city route if it asks to be. Section 1060.02 sets the regulations for anyone who uses the service: receptacles at the curb "not sooner than 24 hours prior to the prescribed day for pick-up" and retrieved "by midnight on the prescribed day"; "No garbage and/or rubbish container shall exceed 50 pounds."; tree limbs "bundled in four-foot or less tied bundles"; and at (f) a refusal list - "Building, construction or demolition materials, rocks, bricks, stones, dirt, stumps and any material not suitable for loading into a packer-type truck shall not be collected." Section 1060.07 adds that containers must hold no less than ten and no more than 20 gallons and that "No branches, limbs or other items of a similar nature shall be longer than four feet in length." Rates under Section 1060.03(a) are "established from time to time by Council" and are a periodic service charge rather than any per-item price. Section 1060.99 refers violations to the general code penalty at Section 202.99. Source Not confirmed: The chapter's definition of that term lists only small household discards and never mentions furniture, bedding or mattresses, and its refusal list at Section 1060.02(f) does not name one either, so whether a mattress is within the ordinance at all is not established Not confirmed: Section 1060.03(a) leaves rates to Council and no adopted figure for a bulky item or a mattress was found in the code Not confirmed: The general code penalty at Section 202.99 was not read, so the fine for setting out a refused item 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