How to get rid of a mattress in Saginaw, 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 City of Saginaw's own Waste Collection & Disposal Services page, under Public Services and Streets, is the city's single page for household waste and it says nothing at all about bulky items or mattresses. It covers the compost site at 2410 Veterans Memorial Parkway (open to the public April 1 through November 30, compost free to city residents if self-loaded, 989-759-1663), the Convenience Station, curbside recycling, yard waste, brush collection and Mid Michigan Waste Authority special waste drop-off days. Yard waste runs "from the first full week of April through the first full week of December" in paper compost bags or 20 to 35 gallon cans labeled with "Yard Waste" stickers, each container and contents under 50 pounds. Brush is collected once monthly April 1 through November 30, the west side from the 1st through the 15th and the east side from the 16th through the end of the month, with a pile not to exceed 4 feet wide by 4 feet high by 10 feet long and limb diameter not over 6 inches; Mid Michigan Waste Authority also takes "One bundle of brush allowed with trash per week". The page's "Items Not Collected" list is a yard waste list - large brush, shrubs and bushes, stumps, tree trunks and rootballs, branches larger than 2 inches, yard waste in plastic bags, yard waste over 50 pounds - and ends "Any yard waste not in compliance with these rules will not be picked up and a 'Notice of Violation' will be posted". For a reader with a mattress the page offers no route, no schedule and no price. City Hall is 989-399-1311 and Mid Michigan Waste Authority 989-781-9555. Source Not confirmed: The City's own waste page publishes no bulky item schedule, allowance or fee, although Section 50.04(F) of the Code requires one - not published. Not confirmed: Mattresses are named nowhere on the page, in either the accepted or the not-collected list.
• Mid Michigan Waste Authority runs the City of Saginaw's curbside service, and its City of Saginaw community page sets out the operating rules without mentioning bulk items once. "All materials must be placed at the curb by 7:00 am on your designated service day." Materials not at the curb when the truck goes by "will not be picked up until your next service day", and residents are told to leave space between trash, recycling and yard waste containers. Trash goes in "trash bags up to 55 gallons in size or cans (rigid plastic container with handles) between 20-35 gallons in size", with container and contents under 50 pounds. Recycling is biweekly on an A Week or B Week calendar: east side residents and the west side areas east of Bond, Brenner, Bullock, Elm, Maple, McEwan and southeast of Graham Road follow the A Week calendar, west side residents west of those streets and northwest of Graham Road follow the B Week calendar. A weekday holiday delays collection by one day; weekend holidays do not. Trash pickup days are given by calling the authority at 989-781-9555 or by the city's interactive map. The page's only large-item answer is the city's Convenience Station, which it describes in the same terms the city does. For a mattress, the authority's page for this city publishes no allowance, no booking route and no charge. Source Not confirmed: Mid Michigan Waste Authority's City of Saginaw page carries no bulk item section, no allowance and no fee, unlike the authority's pages for some other member communities - not published for this city. Not confirmed: Whether an apartment building of five or more units is served by the authority's curbside route is not stated on this page.
• The City of Saginaw Fees & Rates Schedule, amended September 14, 2026, sets no charge for a bulky item, a mattress, a large item pickup or the Convenience Station. What it does set is the penalty scale behind Section 50.99's Class C municipal civil infraction, under Code Enforcement: "Class C Municipal Civil Infraction 1st Offense $50.00", "1st Repeat Offense $100.00", "2nd/Any Repeat Offense $200.00". The schedule's only waste-related rates are at the compost site on page 17 - screened compost "Loaded by Resident per Cubic Yard No Charge" for city residents and $17.00 a cubic yard loaded by a city employee, "Yard Waste Dumping per Cubic Yard $17.00" and "per yard waste bag $2.00", and "Brush Dumping per Cubic Yard $17.00" - none of which covers a mattress, and all of which concern yard waste the Convenience Station will not take. The schedule's miscellaneous page carries a single line reading "Rubbish $250.00" alongside "Special Assessment Interest 8%", with no description of what it charges for; it sits among special assessment items rather than among collection services, and it is not published as a price for having anything collected. Source Not confirmed: No bulky item, large item or mattress fee appears anywhere in the City's fee schedule, although Section 50.09(A) requires the fee schedule to be set by the City Manager with Council approval and posted in the City Clerk's office - not published. Not confirmed: The $250.00 line labeled only "Rubbish" is not explained anywhere in the schedule and cannot be read as a collection price.

• 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