How to get rid of a mattress in Monroe, 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.

• Chapter 610, Solid Waste, of the Code of the City of Monroe, Michigan, adopted October 1, 2001 by Ordinance No. 01-021, answers the apartment question that the city's collection pages leave open. Section 610-11 provides: "Each family shall have separate containers and shall place them at a different location than that of another family. There shall not be communal disposal of rubbish, garbage and/or yard waste, and this requirement shall apply to commercial establishments, homes, etc." and then expressly permits the apartment case - "Apartment lessees and others may have communal containers if a person is duly designated to take care of such garbage, rubbish, and/or yard waste." So an apartment in Monroe is served, through a designated person for the building. Section 610-10 sets the set-out window: "Containers shall not be placed at the point of collection earlier than the day before collection. All containers must be removed from the point of collection by the day after collection." Section 610-4 requires containers to be "maintained in a sanitary, sturdy and durable condition by the owner or user" and "placed at the terrace (curbside) for collection". Section 610-2 bars dumping on any public street, alley, public place or storm sewer unless authorized by the Council, while expressly allowing material placed "at the street line in proper containers for collection in accordance with the enacted ordinances of the City". Section 610-7 puts collection under the supervision of the City Manager, who "shall have authority to make necessary rules and regulations from time to time". Each of Sections 610-3, 610-4, 610-7, 610-10 and 610-13 makes a violation "a municipal civil infraction" subject to a civil fine under Section 1-27 of the Code, with "A separate offense ... deemed committed each day a violation occurs or continues" and increased fines for repeat offenses. The chapter's definitions do not mention a mattress: "RUBBISH" is "Waste materials of an organic nature from ordinary mercantile enterprises, stores, offices and routine housekeeping and includes commercial rubbish." Source Not confirmed: The dollar amounts of the civil fines sit in Section 1-27, which was not read - not captured. Not confirmed: Chapter 610 contains no bulk or large item section at all; the two-item allowance and the mattress wrapping rule come from the City's collection pages rather than from the ordinance.
• Not an option: The City of Monroe does run a public drop-off, and its own ordinance shuts a mattress out of it. Section 610-14 of Chapter 610, amended December 1, 2008 by Ordinance No. 08-017, governs the Department of Public Services dumpster. Use is residents-only: "Use of the DPS dumpster shall be limited to residents and/or property owners of the City of Monroe. Proper identification, in the form of a State of Michigan driver's license, an identification card or other such adequate identification, shall be required prior to use of the DPS dumpster." But the materials accepted are only "Brush, trees and tree limbs over four inches in diameter" and "Building construction materials with evidence of proper building permit(s) where appropriate", and the ordinance then removes household goods by name: "The definition of 'building construction materials' does not include any of the following: any items included in normal curbside refuse collection, furniture, appliances, rubbish or garbage, oils, solvents, tars, accelerants or mechanical/automotive parts or equipment." A mattress is an item included in normal curbside refuse collection and is furniture-class household goods either way, so the city's own drop-off is not a route for one; the curbside bulk pickup is. The Director of Public Services may require a description and quantity of the material and a copy of a building permit, "reserves ... the right to inspect and examine any and all materials brought onto City property for deposit in the DPS dumpster" and "shall have the right to reject any and all materials." Hazardous material is prohibited, assisting a nonresident to dump is prohibited, and the City Manager, in consultation with the Director of Public Services, "shall develop a reasonable fee schedule for the usage of the DPS dumpster." Source Not confirmed: Section 610-14(B) commits the City Manager to a fee schedule for the DPS dumpster; no such schedule was found published - not published. Not confirmed: The ordinance gives no address or opening hours for the DPS dumpster.

• 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