How to get rid of a mattress in St. Clair, 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 St. Clair has run a free Community Clean out and Shred day at which mattresses are taken by name. The city's page advertises it as "Saturday, April 18 from 9am-1pm at 515 Fred Moore Highway (Pine Shores Golf Course)" - the page gives no year - and says "Waste Management and Shredcorp will be on site to collect and dispose of your large items, bagged garbage and paper documents." Eligibility is tight and stated twice: "Event for City of St. Clair residential customers only. Proof of Residency required." On the Waste & Recycling page the same event carries the accepted list, and bedding leads it: "Acceptable materials include: Mattress and Box Springs (must be wrapped), Bed frames and other furniture, household fixtures like sinks or windows, appliances without Freon, outdoor and sports items like patio furniture or bikes." The refusals are "Full size tires, concrete, household hazardous waste like poisons and oils, medical waste of any kind, batteries or treated wood", with a note that "Tires that are cut up and dried paint in cans will be accepted." The city describes the whole event as at no cost - "Waste Management and Shredcorp will be on site to collect and dispose of acceptable items at no cost to you!" Hazardous materials are not accepted. ShredCorp takes all paper products with clips removed and no limit on the number of boxes, but no hard drives. This is the only place in the City of St. Clair's published material where a mattress is named as accepted. Source Not confirmed: The City gives the date as "Saturday, April 18" with no year, so whether the event recurs annually and on what date next is not established - not published. Not confirmed: No street-level instruction on wrapping is given beyond "must be wrapped".
• A rule the site already carries for Smiths Creek Landfill was missing: the county publishes the facility's accepted and refused lists, and a mattress is on neither. St. Clair County Environmental Services' Customer Info page for the landfill gives acceptable waste as "Commercial and Household Refuse", "Construction and Building Demolition Debris", "Furniture", "Appliances", "Car & Truck Tires", "Household Hazardous Waste" and "Recyclables including plastic, metal, and paper". Not accepted are "Batteries, brake linings", "Chemicals, fuel tanks, mufflers, paints", "Poisons or hazardous waste", "Radioactive material", "Auto body shredder wastes, fuels, heavy metals", "Explosives, pesticides", "Liquid waste (moisture content 50% or greater)", "Yard Waste" and "Propane Tanks". Contaminated soil is "conditionally accepted based upon laboratory analysis, and environmental review", and a landfill attendant at 810-985-2443 decides acceptability. The page carries no residency rule, no proof-of-residency requirement, no per-item fee and no per-ton or per-load rate; the hours it repeats are Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Household refuse and furniture are both squarely accepted, which is as close as the county comes to answering for a mattress. Source Not confirmed: A mattress or box spring appears on neither the accepted nor the refused list for Smiths Creek Landfill - not published. Not confirmed: No disposal rate, minimum charge or per-item fee is published on the county's current landfill pages; the county's former rate pages are offline - not published. Not confirmed: No residency rule is published for public self-haul disposal at the landfill.

• 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