How to get rid of a mattress in Belmar, NJ.

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 rest of Belmar's garbage chapter sets out the ordinary week the bulk day hangs off, the price of needing a pickup out of turn, and the items the borough refuses outright. Under § 23-2.1, Solid Waste Collection, "Each residential unit shall receive two days per week curbside solid waste pickup of up to five trash cans", and "All residential properties shall be provided municipal collection services for brush, leaves, recyclables, white goods, light metals and household furniture and bulk waste in accordance with this Chapter and according to the schedules developed and announced by the Department of Public Works." Containers go out "not earlier than 6:00 p.m. on the night before collection day and no later than 6:00 a.m. on the day of collection" and must be off the curb "by not later than 6:00 p.m. on the day of collection". Because bulk runs on "the second scheduled trash pickup day", a Belmar household's bulk day is the later of its two weekly trash days. An out-of-turn pickup is expensive. Section 23-2.2c, Emergency Pickup, provides that "In the case of a property needing a pickup due to unforeseen circumstances, the owner may contact the Department of Public Works and request a special pickup", that "The owner of said property will be assessed $250 for this pickup. This fee will include a pickup equivalent to one unit, five cans or one dumpster", and that "Anything over and above to be collected on the pickup will be an additional $100 per unit." Any pickup required because of a violation of the chapter or a code enforcement ordinance carries that assessment on top. Section 23-4.10, Prohibited Materials, lists what will not be collected at all: construction material, dirt, earth, stone, blacktop, concrete, concrete block and macadam; industrial waste including acids, paints, fluorescent tubes, bulk amounts of glass, toxic and highly volatile matter; automotive parts including transmissions, engines, rear ends, wheels, tires and mufflers; dead animals; surgical dressings, syringes and disposable hospital-type items; new and used motor oil; hazardous waste, with residents directed to the Monmouth County Household Waste Facility; and liquid waste. A mattress or box spring appears nowhere on that prohibited list, which is consistent with bedding being priced on Schedule A. Section 23-5.5, Illegal Dumping, states that "No person shall deposit, dump or place any solid waste on any property situated in the Borough." Under § 23-2.4, Holidays, "The Borough will not make any collections on New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day", and when the Superintendent of Public Works declares an emergency, "collections will not be made on the day of the emergency but will be made on the next regularly scheduled pickup." Nonresidential properties get two days a week of up to five cans and must contract privately for anything more. Chapter 23 contains no seasonal or summer suspension of collection of any kind. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 23 sets no seasonal rule, and no Belmar page was found that states whether the beach season changes the collection calendar in practice, so a summer variation was neither established nor ruled out. Not confirmed: The ordinance does not identify which day of the week is any given property's second scheduled trash day, so a resident must get their own bulk day from the Department of Public Works.

• NJDEP County/Municipal Recycling Coordinator Locator lists municipal (updated August 2026) and county (updated July 2026) coordinator contacts. No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on NJDEP pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress collection is handled by counties/municipalities. Source