How to get rid of a mattress in Grandville, 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.

• Grandville's Department of Public Works lists what it does and trash is not on the list. The page enumerates maintenance of streets, sidewalks, water, sanitary sewer and storm water systems, parks, the Grandville Cemetery, city buildings and equipment, snow plowing, leaf pickup, the spring cleanup, and brush and Christmas tree drop-off - no refuse or bulk-item collection of any kind - and it disclaims recycling in the city's own words: "Although the City of Grandville does not offer recycling services, Kent County does." Household hazardous waste is pushed to the county, with the page directing residents to call Kent County DPW Resource Recovery at 616-632-7920. The DPW is at 4095 White St, Grandville, MI 49418, reachable at (616) 538-1990 or publicworks@cityofgrandville.com, open Monday through Thursday 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Friday 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The brush and Christmas tree drop-off behind that building takes "chippable brush" only, Monday through Thursday 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Friday 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The city's own "How Do I" index carries no trash, refuse or hauler entry either; its only waste-related items are Leaf Pickup and Spring Cleanup. Source Not confirmed: The city names no hauler and publishes no list of licensed haulers, so who serves a given Grandville address is not established. Not confirmed: No bulk-item or mattress collection, allowance or fee is published anywhere on the city's site.
• Not an option: Grandville's free Spring Cleanup drop-off is the obvious place a resident would take a mattress, and it is the wrong place. The 2026 event ran at the Department of Public Works on Friday, May 8 from 8 AM to 7 PM and Saturday, May 9 from 8 AM to 2 PM, with identification required at the gate. What it takes is a short, closed list: yard waste removed from bags, brush, scrap metal, appliances with no Freon, and concrete. What it turns away is printed as its own list, and the categories a mattress falls into are all on it: "Furniture", "Carpet", "Residential Construction Waste", "Shingles", "Treated Wood", "Garbage", "Household Trash", "Fencing", "Hazardous Waste", "Household chemicals", "Paint" and "Pesticides". The word mattress appears in neither list. Leaves and grass are taken only at this event and then not again until fall, materials must be unloaded in designated areas, and electronics recycling has been dropped - the page says it is no longer available and sends residents to Kent County instead. Hazardous waste goes to Kent County DPW Resource Recovery at 616-632-7920, and questions to the DPW office at 538-1990. Source Not confirmed: The city does not name mattresses or bedding in either the accepted or the refused list, so whether staff would turn one away at the gate as "Furniture" or "Household Trash" is not stated in those words. Not confirmed: The page gives no street address for the drop-off beyond "Department of Public Works", and sets no load limit or eligibility rule other than identification at the gate. Not confirmed: The 2027 dates had not been published when this was checked.
• Grandville's code is where the city's collection arrangements and its dumping penalties actually live. Sec. 21-29(a) reserves the arrangement to the council: "For the purpose of collecting and disposing of solid waste systematically and in a sanitary manner, the city council shall from time to time designate and authorize a person to collect and dispose of solid waste", with that collection "under the supervision of the city street administrator and in accordance with any agreement the city council may have made with the party so authorized". Sec. 21-30 adds that "No person shall engage in the business of collecting, transporting, delivering, or disposing of solid waste in the city without first obtaining a license in accordance with chapter 12", for "An annual fee determined by resolution of the city council". Collection hours are limited by ordinance rather than by the hauler: Sec. 21-29(b) states "No waste hauler shall collect solid waste or source-separated materials in any residentially-zoned district of the city between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:30 a.m." A resident may take the item themselves - Sec. 21-32(a)(2) allows disposal "By personally transporting the same to an approved sanitary landfill", and requires that no individual doing so "fail to securely cover and secure the load so that no part of the load shall be lost while being transported." The penalties are the part nobody else publishes. Sec. 21-34(a) sets civil fines for violating the disposal sections 21-32 or 21-33 at "Not less than $2,000.00 (plus costs)" for a first offense, "Not less than $5,000.00 (plus costs)" for a first repeat and "Not less than $10,000.00 (plus costs)" for a second or any subsequent repeat; all other violations of the article run "Not less than $100.00", "Not less than $500.00" and "Not less than $1,000.00" on the same ladder, and "Each day that a violation occurs shall be deemed a separate offense". Dumping is separately a misdemeanor under Sec. 21-16, which bars placing "any garbage or rubbish on any premises or property, private or public" without the owner's permission and outside approved containers. A mattress is covered by the code's definitions: both "Rubbish" and "Combustible waste" list "bedding". The fire chief is the official designated to issue the citations. Source Not confirmed: The code authorizes the council to designate a collector and to set a license fee by resolution, but names no collector and publishes no rate, so no residential collection price is established. Not confirmed: Sec. 21-28 regulates containers but sets no curbside set-out window and no bulk-item allowance, cap or wrapping rule. Not confirmed: The code does not say whether an apartment building's tenants are served by the designated collector or by the building's own arrangement.

• 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