How to get rid of a mattress in Holly, 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.

• The Village of Holly's own ordinance names mattresses, which few Oakland County codes do. Section 54.01 of Chapter 54, Refuse Collection, of the Village of Holly Code of Ordinances provides: "BULK ITEMS. Waste items of large size not customarily suitable for landfill disposal, including, but not limited to, automobile parts less than four feet in length and weighing less than 40 pounds, discarded furniture and appliances, Christmas trees, box springs and mattresses, sofas, refrigerators, freezers, and water heaters and similar items." The same section defines "RESIDENTIAL REFUSE. Ashes, bulk items, household wastes, and yard wastes", excluding chunks of asphalt or concrete, dirt, sod, stumps or rocks, automobile parts greater than four feet in length or weighing more than 40 pounds, and construction waste - so a mattress is residential refuse the village's system is there to collect. VILLAGE is defined as "The Village of Holly, Oakland County, Michigan." Section 54.02 creates the village residential refuse collection system to serve all residential units, makes each residential unit part of it, and has the Village Council set uniform rates and charges against all residential units to fund the contract payments. A residential unit is any single-family detached dwelling and any attached unit in a building of no more than four attached units; a building of four or more units is a commercial unit under the chapter. Source Not confirmed: The chapter sets no number of bulk items per collection; the weekly allowance of one comes from the hauler's brochure rather than from the ordinance.
• Holly's ordinance sets the rules a resident actually has to follow and then leaves the price to a resolution. Section 54.03(C) requires all residential refuse "other than bulk items" to be placed in water-tight metal or plastic containers with tight-fitting covers or in securely tied plastic bags, with containers not exceeding 20 gallons in capacity and limited to 60 pounds when full and plastic bags not exceeding 50 pounds, so a mattress is expressly outside the container requirement. Section 54.03(A)(2) puts the duty on the occupant "to remove any empty containers from the curb within 12 hours after collection of the residential refuse" and makes it "unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited any residential refuse in any unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the village"; apart from the set-out, refuse containers must be stored behind the front plane of the residential unit. Section 54.03(D) limits collection to Monday through Friday, with Saturday only for holidays or unforeseen circumstances, bars Sunday collection and collection on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, and moves a holiday day's collection to the following day ahead of that day's own route. Section 54.03(E) provides that collection "shall not commence before 6 a.m., local prevailing time, and shall not continue past 7:00 p.m." Section 54.03(F) requires disposal at a licensed and approved landfill or incinerator in accordance with the Oakland County Waste Management Plan approved June 15, 2000 as amended. Section 54.03(G) makes a non-resident owner jointly responsible with the occupants for compliance. Section 54.04 then says only: "The charges for collection and disposal of residential refuse shall be determined by resolution of the Village Council." Source Not confirmed: Section 54.04 commits the Village Council to setting the refuse charges by resolution and the code publishes no figure, so neither the household rate nor any charge for a bulk item is established from the ordinance. Not confirmed: The code's 20-gallon container limit differs from the 95-gallon cart the hauler's brochure describes, and nothing found reconciles the two.
• Holly publishes an escalating civil fine for a refuse violation, which almost no neighboring town does. Section 54.99(A) of the Village of Holly Code of Ordinances designates any violation of Chapter 54 a municipal civil infraction subject to the civil fines, sanctions, remedies and procedures in sections 10.99, 32.20 through 32.23 and state law. Section 54.99(B) then sets the amounts paid at the Village Municipal Violations Bureau: "the initial fine shall be $50"; a further offense within one year of the initial infraction is $100 as a second offense; another within one year of the second is $250 as a third offense; another within one year of the third is $500 as a fourth offense, and "All subsequent offenses shall be $500." Section 54.07 authorizes the Village Violations Bureau to accept those civil fines and provides that in case of payment at the bureau no costs shall be imposed or collected. Section 54.06 bills refuse charges quarterly, adds a penalty of 10% to a bill not paid by its due date, makes all charges a personal obligation of the owner and a lien on the premises, and certifies any amount three months or more past due to the tax assessing officer for entry on the next tax roll. Source

• 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