How to get rid of a mattress in Grand Haven, 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 Haven city - a separate government from Grand Haven Township, and not Grand Rapids, Grand Ledge or Grand Blanc - has a single contracted waste provider, and the city's own new resident page names it: Republic Services, customer service 877-698-7274. Republic provides residential trash, recycling on an every-other-week 95-gallon cart, and curbside yard waste collection April 1 to December 31. Eligibility for the city's extras is drawn tightly around that contract: the spring and fall yard waste drop-off on Harbor Island, in the boat launch overflow lot at the north end of the island, is limited in the city's own words - "These services are only for residents of the City of Grand Haven who are Republic Services Customers." The site is unstaffed, "the site is under video surveillance", and "Any dumping other than qualifying yard waste is strictly prohibited", which rules a mattress out of the only city drop-off there is. Drop-off dates are announced in March for spring and September for fall. The yard waste site accepts biodegradable material only - leaves, grass clippings, garden debris, shrubbery and tree trimmings, with brush tied in bundles no longer than 4 feet and no branch over 2.5 inches in diameter - and refuses stumps, agricultural waste, animal waste, roots, shrub bases, sewage sludge, building materials and garbage. The city's recycling guide points residents to the Resource Recovery Service Center at 16850 Comstock Ave., Grand Haven, (616) 393-5645, open Monday and Wednesday 8am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm and the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month 8am to 12pm, but that guide covers paper, metal, plastic and glass only. Source Not confirmed: The city's former Waste Services page was gone when this was checked and no replacement publishes a bulk-item or mattress rule, allowance, booking method or fee for the Republic contract. Not confirmed: Bags for residential "bag service" customers are sold at the Treasurer's Office of City Hall, but no price per bag is published. Not confirmed: Whether an apartment or condominium in the city is served under the Republic residential contract or by its own account is not published.
• Grand Haven's Chapter 17 carries the set-out window and the dumping penalties, which is the part of the answer almost nobody publishes. Sec. 17-2(a) applies to "The occupant of a residential building or structure having garbage and refuse pickup service furnished by a person authorized to render such service at rates established through a contract with the city", and requires that all refuse be placed "in a dumpster, vessel or box suitable for storing and carrying refuse" and set "in a location where they are readily accessible for collection". The timing is exact: the occupant "shall not place any of the bags, containers, vessels, boxes, bundles or any garbage or refuse on a street, parkway or sidewalk prior to 1:00 p.m. on the day before collection established by the garbage and refuse collector; nor shall the occupant permit the bags, containers, vessels, boxes, bundles or any garbage or refuse to remain on a street, parkway or sidewalk after 11:59 p.m. on the day of collection." Breaking that is its own infraction, with "a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00)" for a first violation and "not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00)" for a second or any subsequent one - and the code excuses the resident when the hauler is at fault: "In cases when the private hauler does not collect garbage according to normal or holiday schedules, occupants shall not be held responsible for leaving containers at the curb in anticipation of eventual collection", though they must retrieve containers before 11:59 p.m. on the day of eventual collection. Dumping anywhere else is closed off by Sec. 17-6, which makes it unlawful to dispose of "any garbage, refuse or other solid wastes, specifically including, without limitation ... household debris, on any private or public property within the city, except a duly licensed landfill, transfer station or compost site." The general penalty ladder in Sec. 17-7 runs "not less than fifty dollars ($50.00)" for a first violation, "not less than one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00)" for a second and "not less than three hundred dollars ($300.00)" for a third, plus costs of prosecution "of not less than nine dollars ($9.00) but not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00)", plus reimbursement of the city's "actual documented costs of correcting the violation, including time, equipment, and materials, plus a fifteen (15) percent administrative fee"; "The fourth and any subsequent violation of any provision of this chapter, by any person, is a misdemeanor". A mattress is within the chapter's reach: "Refuse and waste matter" is defined to include "bedding". Rates are a council matter under Sec. 17-5: "Any charges for the disposal of garbage and waste matter from residential premises shall first be approved by the city council and shall also be incorporated into and made a part of any agreement between the city and any person for the collection of garbage and waste matter". Source Not confirmed: Sec. 17-5 requires the city council to approve residential disposal charges and to write them into the collection agreement, and no such schedule or agreement rate was published anywhere on the city's site when this was checked, so no residential or bulk price is established for Grand Haven. Not confirmed: The chapter sets no bulk-item allowance, item cap or wrapping rule, and names no booking method for an item too large for a container.
• Not an option: Downtown Grand Haven is the one part of the city where the city itself provides the container, and its ordinance bars furniture from it by name - so an apartment above a Washington Avenue storefront has no lawful place to put a mattress. Sec. 17-2(d) applies "upon the location of a dumpster on property owned or controlled by the city in the CB Central Business District", and requires that "the owner, proprietor or person in charge of each parcel located on the same block as the enclosure shall place all garbage, other solid waste, refuse and waste matter generated in the regular, routine operation of the residence, office or business operated on each parcel in the designated dumpster(s) on that block." Private containers are then forbidden: an owner or occupant may keep only "one container, not exceeding one hundred (100) gallons in capacity, within a wholly enclosed and roofed area which container must be emptied into the city provided dumpster not less than once each day", and "Except for such a temporary storage container, no private dumpsters or trash receptacles of any kind shall be permitted on private property in the block surrounding that enclosure." The exclusion is written into Sec. 17-2(d)(4), which limits what the dumpsters are for and then names what they are not for: the covered waste "does not include any items or substances not used or consumed on the parcel located in the district or materials that are not a part of the routine operation of the residence, office or business located in the district ... For example, building materials, furniture, appliances and large quantities of clutter generated when occupants move in or out are not permitted in the dumpsters or dumpster enclosures." The same subsection also requires that "No materials whatsoever shall be placed outside of the dumpsters within the enclosures, or outside the enclosures", and that all garbage go in "watertight, sealed bags". The city sets the charges for these dumpsters by resolution of the city council, billed separately or with other city invoices, and unpaid amounts "constitute a lien on the premises served". Source Not confirmed: The ordinance names furniture, appliances and moving-out clutter as not permitted but does not use the word mattress, and it names no alternative for a downtown resident who has one. Not confirmed: The dumpster rates set by council resolution were not published on the city's site when this was checked. Not confirmed: The ordinance does not define the CB Central Business District boundary within the section, so which addresses it reaches is not established here.
• The contracted hauler's own Grand Haven page closes the question rather than answering it, which is worth saying so a reader does not keep looking. Republic Services' Grand Haven, Michigan location page opens "Republic Services is a leader in recycling and non-hazardous solid waste disposal. We have waste services in Grand Haven and the nearby area", and its bulk entry reads "Bulk Waste - Need to remove an old mattress or refrigerator? Let us do the heavy lifting with a bulk trash pickup." That sentence is national marketing copy that this vendor repeats on its location pages across several states, not a statement about what the City of Grand Haven contract covers, and the page carries no Grand Haven allowance, item cap, notice period, wrapping rule or price. Everything concrete on it is a prompt to enter an address and shop for service, or a link to pay a bill, see a schedule or get support. Source Not confirmed: No bulk-item or mattress price, allowance or booking rule specific to Grand Haven is published on the hauler's page, so none is established from it. Not confirmed: Whether a bulk pickup is included in the city contract rate or billed separately is not published.

• 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