How to get rid of a mattress in Woodhaven, 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.

• Woodhaven runs a transfer station restricted to its own residents, and the restriction is stated in unusually complete terms: "The transfer station is opened to City of Woodhaven residents only. I.D. is required when using the transfer station. Materials must have come from residents Woodhaven property and work must have been performed by resident not a contractor." So a neighbor from Trenton or Riverview cannot use it, and neither can a Woodhaven resident hauling material a contractor generated. Hours run in two seasons: open Fridays and Saturdays from the first full weekend in April to the last weekend in December, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and now Sundays 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.; during the winter season, the first weekend in January through the last weekend in March, Saturdays only from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. It closes when Woodhaven City Hall closes for a holiday. The city lists items refused as examples rather than exhaustively: "Yard Waste, tires, shingles, motor oil, household hazardous waste, concrete, bricks, dirt, and railroad ties are some examples of the items not accepted." A mattress appears neither among the accepted nor among the refused items. Because the list is expressly a set of examples, the absence of bedding establishes nothing either way. Source Not confirmed: Whether the Woodhaven transfer station accepts a mattress is not established - the page's refusal list is expressly examples only, and bedding appears nowhere on it Not confirmed: No fee or rate is published for using the transfer station Not confirmed: No street address for the transfer station is published on the city's trash page, so no facility record was created

• 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