How to get rid of a mattress in Kentwood, 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.

• Kentwood runs no trash collection of its own: the city licenses private haulers and a household contracts with one directly. Chapter 46, Sec. 46-32 states it is "necessary ... to provide, by ordinance, for the collection of solid waste within the city, and also to provide that the city may grant licenses for such collection to such waste haulers as the city deems most expedient", and Sec. 46-61(a) makes it flat: "No person shall engage, in whole or in part, in the business of collecting, transporting, delivering or disposing of solid waste within the city, and no vehicle shall be used for such purposes, unless properly licensed under this division." The license classes answer the apartment question structurally. A "Residential license" is "a license to collect solid waste from single-family and duplex residential buildings in the city", while a "Commercial/industrial license" is "a license to collect solid waste from any and all sources within the city, except single-family and duplex residential dwellings" - so a mattress leaving an apartment building goes out under the building's commercial account, arranged by the property, not under a household's own residential service. Set-out window and storage, from Sec. 46-1(d): "All residential garbage containers must be stored inside a structure or at rear or side of a building", and such a container "shall be placed out for proper collection of refuse no earlier than 6:00 p.m. on the day prior to the regularly scheduled collection day and removed as soon as practicable on such collection day." Collection days are fixed by map: Sec. 46-33 requires that waste "be collected only on the days indicated in the areas marked on the map entitled 'Refuse Collection Areas - City of Kentwood, Michigan.'" A resident may legally haul the item themselves: Sec. 46-36(a) permits that "any individual may dispose of solid waste from his own household by personally transporting the solid waste to an approved sanitary landfill", provided they "securely cover and secure the load so that no part of the load shall be lost while being transported." A mattress is caught by the code's own definitions - "Rubbish" and "Combustible waste" both list "bedding" - and combustible waste must go to the county mass-burn incinerator under Sec. 46-37(a). Penalty, Sec. 46-1(h): "A person who violates any of the provisions of this section is responsible for a municipal civil infraction." Source Not confirmed: Hauler prices are filed with the city but not published: Sec. 46-61(c) requires every licensed hauler to "annually file its rates with the city clerk on July 1", and the city publishes no rate on file, so no mattress or bulk-item price is established for Kentwood. Not confirmed: The code sets no bulk-item allowance, item cap, wrapping rule or notice period, and the city publishes no list of its licensed haulers. Not confirmed: Whether any licensed Kentwood hauler collects a mattress at the curb at all, and on what terms, is not published by the city.

• 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