How to get rid of a mattress in Norton Shores, 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.

• Norton Shores runs no trash collection of its own and says so in one word. Its Street & Drainage FAQs page asks "Does the City provide municipal trash service?" and answers: "No. It is the responsibility of the resident or business owner to hire a private service to provide trash pick-up." The same page is equally plain about recycling, saying the City has no recycling facility and that residents should ask their own waste provider whether recycling is part of their service. There is therefore no city bulk-item run, no allowance, no on-call pickup and no city sticker in Norton Shores: whatever a household pays to have a mattress taken away is whatever its own hauler charges, and the City publishes nothing about those charges. The two leaf and yard waste sites the City does operate, on Randall Road at Martin Road and on Wood Road south of Pontaluna Road, take bagged leaves, loose leaves and brush under 3 inches only, and nothing on the page extends them to furniture or household items. Public Works is at 4814 Henry Street and can be reached at 231-799-6803; the Streets Division line is 231-798-2156. Source Not confirmed: The City names no hauler and publishes no list of companies serving Norton Shores, so which private haulers take a mattress, and what they charge for one, is not established Not confirmed: Nothing published says whether apartment and condominium buildings are served differently from houses, since every property arranges its own collection
• Because it collects nothing itself, Norton Shores does the next most useful thing: it buys down the gate fee at the county dump for its own residents. The Street & Drainage FAQs page asks "Where do I get a discount card for the “County dump”?" and answers that discount cards for "the Muskegon County Solid Waste facility, located at 9366 Apple Avenue, Ravenna, MI 49451" are available to residents at the Department of Public Works, 4814 Henry Street. Asked how much the card saves, the page sets out the minimum dumping fees as "Car - $6.00 (City cost $5.00/Resident cost $1.00*)" and "Truck or trailer - $18 (City cost $7.50/Resident cost $10.50*)," with the resident responsible for any cost above the minimum. The card reduces the minimum load charge only, so any per-item surcharge the county adds on top of the load still falls on the resident. The figures on this page have not kept pace with the county's own current rate card, which sets higher minimums, so the saving a card actually produces today is not what the page states. Source Not confirmed: The City page carries no date, and its stated minimums are below the county facility's current published minimums, so the discount card's present value is not established Not confirmed: Nothing on the City page says whether the discount card reduces any per-item surcharge the county charges on top of the minimum load fee, or only the load fee itself Not confirmed: What proof of residency the Department of Public Works asks for before issuing a card, and whether the card expires, is not published
• Norton Shores has no collection ordinance because it has no collection, but Chapter 34 of its Code of Ordinances still decides what happens to a mattress left outside. Sec. 34-1 defines "Rubbish" as "all material which is not garbage which is normally discarded from a household, including, but not limited to, discarded household furniture, appliances, building materials," so a discarded mattress falls squarely inside the City's own definition, and Sec. 34-5(a) states that "The storage of rubbish and junk upon any premises within the city is prohibited." Sec. 34-7 adds that no person shall use or store indoor furniture in view of adjoining premises, and that furniture must be stored "within a structure or building out of view of adjoining premises." Sec. 34-11(a) gives the owner or occupant ten days from a written notice of violation to remove "landscaping material, furniture, firewood, garbage, rubbish and junk," and immediate removal may be ordered where the material is a threat to public health. If the deadline passes, Sec. 34-11(c) lets the City enter the property, remove the items, dispose of them as it sees fit with no liability for them, and charge every expense including administrative and legal fees to the owner or occupant as a lien added to the tax rolls and enforced like an unpaid tax. Sec. 34-12 makes any violation of the chapter a municipal civil infraction. Sec. 34-56 closes the other obvious door: city leaf sites are for residents, and "Nonresidents shall not dump or deposit leaves or other rubbish at any site operated by the city." Source Not confirmed: Sec. 34-12 makes a violation a municipal civil infraction but sets no dollar figure, and no Norton Shores civil infraction fine schedule was found published, so what a mattress left at the curb costs an owner in fines is not established Not confirmed: Chapter 34 does not say how long an item may sit at the curb awaiting a private hauler before it counts as prohibited storage
• The City's Utilities FAQs page answers "Who do I call for utility services?" by naming a company for each service -- Comcast for cable, DTE Energy for gas, Consumers Energy for electricity, Verizon for telephone, and the City itself at 231-799-6804 for water and sewer -- and then, for trash, declines to name anyone at all: "For garbage service consult your telephone directory for private trash haulers." It is the second place on the City's own site confirming that collection in Norton Shores is a private arrangement, and it shows the City does not hold or publish a list of the haulers that serve it. Source Not confirmed: No city-maintained list of licensed or approved haulers exists on the site, so a resident has no published starting point for comparing prices

• 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