How to get rid of a mattress in Zeeland, 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.

• Zeeland city - a separate government from Zeeland Township - runs no trash collection of its own. The city instead publishes a roster and leaves the contract to the household: "For a listing of the current approved waste haulers for the City of Zeeland please see below". Seven are named with addresses and numbers: Arrowaste, Inc., 1296 Chicago Drive, Jenison, MI 49429, 616-748-1955; Denmark Disposal, 521 64th Street, Zeeland, MI 49464, 616-836-5569; Knight Transfer Services, 10500 Chicago Drive, Suite 40, Zeeland, MI 49464, 616-748-9878; Lakeside Disposal, LLC, P.O. Box 1885, Holland, MI 49424, 616-405-8213; Republic Services, 2471 Wilshire Drive, Jenison, MI 49428, 877-698-7274; V's Waste Services, 3474 Foxtail Court, Hudsonville, MI 49426, 616-229-1098; and Waste Management, 1668 Porter SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49519, 616-724-2138. The city's own collection work is seasonal and vegetable: the once-a-year spring curbside clean-up of tree limbs, twigs and shrub debris, the Riley Street brush drop-off, fall leaf pickup and Christmas tree disposal, with the 2026 fall leaf and Christmas tree dates listed as to be determined. No bulk-item run, no large-item pickup and no mattress rule appears anywhere on the page. Source Not confirmed: The city publishes no rate for any approved hauler and no bulk-item term, so what a Zeeland household pays to have a mattress collected is not established. Not confirmed: Whether any of the seven approved haulers collects a mattress at the curb, and on what notice, is not published by the city.
• Zeeland's Chapter 32 is unusually prescriptive about when waste may sit at the curb and when a truck may come for it, and it says plainly that the duty to arrange collection is the resident's. Sec. 32-20(a) requires each property owner and each tenant either to remove all garbage, refuse, trash and yard waste themselves or to "Contract for or cause such items to be removed", and "The terms of a lease shall not excuse either the property owner nor the tenant from complying with the requirements of this section." Haulers are licensed: under Sec. 32-22 no person may collect solid waste in the city "without first obtaining a solid waste hauler license from the city", issued "upon payment of a registration fee in the amount of $25.00 for each year or fraction of a calendar year", with the section not applying to "a solid waste hauler who contracts with a customer for a single, nonperiodic solid waste pickup or for dumpster pickups associated with construction or remodeling projects." Set-out, Sec. 32-24: "No residential waste, garbage, refuse, trash, or yard waste containers, bags, bins, or cans shall be placed next to the curb or in the front yard setback area for removal earlier than 6:00 p.m. on the day prior to the date that such items shall be picked for removal." Containers come back in by Sec. 32-28: "All empty solid waste containers shall be removed from the curb and front yard setback area by 8:00 a.m. on the date following the emptying of them by the solid waste hauler." The collection day itself is fixed, and the code answers the apartment question in the same breath: Sec. 32-27 provides that "All solid wastes may only be collected from single-family, two-family, and multifamily residential sites on Tuesdays of each week", moving to Wednesday when the Monday or the Tuesday is a national holiday, "provided that if a multifamily facility is using screened-in dumpsters, however, then the collection of solid wastes shall not be limited to Tuesdays and Wednesdays", with hours "from 7:00 a.m. through 9:00 p.m." A mattress is caught twice over by the definitions in Sec. 32-19: "Trash" includes "bedding", "Residential solid wastes" means "solid wastes from a single-family, two-family, or multifamily residence", and "Refuse" expressly covers "furniture which is torn or unduly damaged and which is located outside of a building or on a porch, a patio or a deck" - so a mattress left on a porch is itself the violation. The city can clear it and bill for it: Sec. 32-21 lets the city manager have the removal done after a three-day notice, with costs billed to the owner and, if unpaid within 30 days, certified to the assessor and "spread ... upon the tax roll". Violations are municipal civil infractions under Sec. 32-30, and "Five or more violations of any provision of this article within a two-year time period shall be cause for suspension or revocation of a solid waste hauler license", after which the hauler must file a $2,000.00 bond. Source Not confirmed: The chapter sets no bulk-item allowance, item cap, wrapping rule or notice period, and no price, so what a Zeeland household pays for a mattress pickup is not established. Not confirmed: The administrative fee the city adds when it removes waste itself is left to the city manager to determine and is not published.

• 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