How to get rid of a mattress in New 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.

• Not an option: New Haven's collection is the Village's own, not Lenox Township's, and the Village's ordinance puts anything that will not fit a twenty-gallon can back on the resident. Chapter 440 Solid Waste of the Village Code, adopted June 13, 1966 by Ordinance No. 121 and amended through Ordinance No. 368 of October 8, 2019, is titled "Village of New Haven Garbage and Rubbish Disposal Ordinance" and settles the question of which government serves the reader at Sec. 440-4A: "the exclusive authority for the operation and control of the collection, transportation and disposal of rubbish within the Village of New Haven shall be vested in the Village Council," and it is unlawful to collect refuse in the Village "without written authority given by the Village Council." Sec. 440-4B lets the Council contract that work out on public bids for no more than one year unless it resolves that a longer term is to the Village's advantage. The limit that decides a mattress is Sec. 440-6D: "The care, collection and disposal of brush over four feet in length and rubbish or garbage which cannot be contained in a receptacle the capacity of which is no larger than 20 gallons is the responsibility of the owner or tenant of the property." Sec. 440-6C fixes the receptacle: "Rubbish containers shall be either garbage cans of metal or wooden bushel baskets with handles in good condition and shall not exceed 20 gallons in capacity nor weigh more than 60 pounds when full," and Sec. 440-6H adds that "The combined weight of any refuse container and its contents shall not exceed 60 pounds." A mattress cannot be contained in a twenty-gallon can, so by the Village's own words its care, collection and disposal fall to the owner or tenant. Chapter 440 contains no bulk item, bulky waste or large item program of any kind, and never names a mattress, a box spring or bedding. The ordinance does answer who is billed, and apartment residents are in: Sec. 440-7A establishes "(1) For single-family residences: $15.95 per month" and "(2) For multiple-family residences, for each family or apartment: $15.95 per month," a monthly refuse rate billed with the water and sewage bill at the Council's discretion, with a ten percent penalty and a two percent monthly billing service charge on a delinquent balance, a lien on the premises after thirty days, and the amount placed on the next general tax roll. That is a periodic rate for the weekly collection, not a price for taking a mattress, and it buys a collection that by Sec. 440-6D does not extend to one. Sec. 440-5A requires the contractor to collect "at least once each week"; Sec. 440-6B requires the can to be kept at the rear of the premises except on collection days, when it goes "between the sidewalk and the curb"; and Sec. 440-6G requires branches cut to four-foot lengths and tied securely in bundles. The penalty is set by Sec. 440-7G: a violator "shall be punished under the municipal civil infraction provisions set forth in the Village of New Haven Municipal Civil Infraction Ordinance No. 333," with each day a separate offense, and Sec. 440-8 allows a court of equity to restrain violations by injunction. Sec. 440-10 carves out who the chapter does not reach: "The provisions of this article shall not apply to any commercial or industrial establishment nor to any trailer park." Priority Waste publishes a Friday service day for New Haven and a weekly compost period, and its New Haven page says nothing about mattresses, box springs, wrapping, item limits or fees. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 440 publishes no charge for taking a mattress and no bulk item program at all; the $15.95 monthly rate is a periodic refuse rate for the weekly collection and is not a mattress price, so what a mattress costs in New Haven is not established Not confirmed: Sec. 440-6D makes oversized refuse the owner's or tenant's responsibility without naming a mattress, and no Village document says where a resident should take one instead Not confirmed: The Village's contracted hauler's own New Haven page sets no bulk allowance, mattress rule or fee, so whether the contract in force collects a mattress on terms the ordinance does not mention is not established Not confirmed: A Village Council resolution proposing to declare the hauler in breach of contract for residential hauling was reported but could not be confirmed as adopted, so who collects in New Haven today is not established beyond the ordinance's grant of authority to the Council Not confirmed: The dollar amount of the civil infraction fine under Ordinance No. 333 and Chapter 59 is not established Not confirmed: No set-out clock time is fixed by the ordinance beyond requiring the can to be between the sidewalk and the curb on collection days Not confirmed: Residents of a trailer park are excluded from Chapter 440 by Sec. 440-10 and the ordinance does not say what serves them instead

• 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