How to get rid of a mattress in Southgate, 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.

• Southgate's Chapter 1060, Garbage and Rubbish Collection and Disposal, re-enacted in full by Ordinance 530 of May 19, 1993, defines "unacceptable waste" at 1060.01(q) as an itemized list running from explosives and solvents through "tree stumps or tree limbs over three inches in diameter; tires; vehicle bodies" and on to anything the Director of Public Services names in writing. The list is exhaustive in form and contains no mattress, bedding or furniture entry, while "acceptable waste" at 1060.01(a) is "solid waste, but excluding unacceptable waste." Recorded because the list is specific enough to be useful to a reader, not as an acceptance: the chapter sets no bulky-item allowance, schedule or charge anywhere in its eighteen sections. Source Not confirmed: A mattress is absent from the 1060.01(q) unacceptable-waste list, which is a gap and not a stated acceptance Not confirmed: Chapter 1060 sets no bulky-item allowance, set-out rule for bulk, or charge, so the code does not price or limit a mattress Not confirmed: Sections 1060.04 and 1060.05, on the duties of owners and occupants and on placement of containers, were not read in full
• Two Southgate sections bear directly on a reader with no curbside of their own. Section 1060.17 provides that "No person shall make use of any garbage can, dumpster or trash receptacle belonging to another person or business entity in the City without first receiving the express written consent of such person or business entity," and defines "use" to include "the dumping, unloading, disposing or placing of rubbish in such receptacle" (Ordinance 566, passed October 5, 1994). Section 1060.18 adds that no person shall "open, dump, tamper with or remove the contents of" another's receptacle, exempting licensed haulers (Ordinance 823, passed April 5, 2006). So putting a mattress in a dumpster that is not yours is an ordinance violation in Southgate, in writing. The chapter's own penalty section, 1060.99, sets no figure and refers out: "See Section 202.99 for general Code penalty if no specific penalty is provided." Source Not confirmed: Section 1060.99 sets no penalty of its own and points to Section 202.99 for the general Code penalty, which was not read, so the fine or jail exposure for a refuse violation in Southgate is not established

• 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