How to get rid of a mattress in Bogota, 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.

• Bogota collects non-recyclable trash separately from garbage, but only once a month and on a date the Borough does not publish in advance. Code Chapter 14, Section 14-5A.7, Pickup and Collection of Trash, provides: "Trash other than recyclable materials designated in subsections 14-5A.2 or 14-5A.3, shall only be picked up and collected once each month on a day to be designated by the superintendent of the department of public works. No recyclables will be picked up or collected on this day and any such material placed at curbside for pickup or collection will be left behind." Garbage itself runs far more often: under Section 14-5A.6, "Garbage shall be picked up and collected twice each week on days to be designated by the superintendent of the department of public works", and the presence of recyclable material in the garbage "shall be cause for nonpickup". White goods are a third, separate stream: Section 14-5A.5 provides that they "shall be picked up and collected once each month on the days or day designated by the superintendent of public works". So a Bogota resident has a monthly trash collection, a twice-weekly garbage collection and a monthly white goods collection, each set by the DPW superintendent rather than by a published calendar date. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 14 does not name a mattress, a box spring, bedding or furniture anywhere in its trash, garbage or white goods provisions, so whether the monthly trash collection takes a mattress is not established in the Borough's own words Not confirmed: The monthly trash collection date is left to the superintendent of public works and is not published on the Borough's site or its 2026 calendar Not confirmed: No item limit, size cap or weight cap is published for the monthly trash collection Not confirmed: No fee is published for the monthly trash collection, and the code sets none
• Bogota's curbside rules are written around containers, which is the practical difficulty for a mattress. The Borough's Department of Public Works page quotes Section 14-4.3a, under which an owner or occupant must arrange private removal once garbage exceeds "more than six (6) thirty (30) gallon cans per week per residential unit", and Section 14-4.3b, under which the Borough need not collect from dumpsters or large containers, or from containers over the weight limit — "suitable containers weighing less than seventy (70) pounds each when full." Section 14-4.3c forbids putting household garbage in Borough litter or garbage containers. The Borough sets the curb window itself: household trash may not be set out on a weekend or before 4:00 p.m. the evening before pickup. The Borough's 2026 Trash Pickup and Recycling Calendar adds the container rule in capitals: "All Garbage must be placed in Garbage Cans or Heavy Duty Black Garbage Bags" and "WHITE AND CLEAR BAGS WILL NOT BE PICKED UP", citing BOROUGH ORD 14-4. The calendar schedules Metal Goods — "Dryers, Washers, Refrigerators, Small Appliances" — for the last Friday of the month and Electronics and Tires for the first Friday, both booked by emailing the DPW by Thursday, with the note "(There will be no phone pick-up confirmation.)" It also lists items to "DISPOSE OF WITH REGULAR GARBAGE": latex based paint, Styrofoam and pizza boxes, alkaline batteries, and carpets cut in 24-inch lengths. DPW is at 9 East Fort Lee Road, open 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, phone 201-487-1041. Source Not confirmed: The Borough requires all garbage to be in cans or heavy duty black bags and caps containers at 70 pounds when full, but publishes no rule for an item that fits in neither, so how a mattress should be presented at the curb is not stated Not confirmed: The calendar names carpets among items to dispose of with regular garbage, cut in 24-inch lengths, but names no comparable preparation rule for a mattress Not confirmed: The metal goods and electronics collections both exclude bedding by their own item lists, and the Borough publishes no booking route for a mattress
• Bogota's Recycling Center is a genuine Borough drop-off but its published accepted list is narrow and holds nothing bulky. The Borough's Recycling Center page lists "Motor Oil", "Fluorescent Light Bulbs", "Computers, Televisions" and "Tires", and states that "Styrofoam and Pizza Boxes are not accepted at the recycling center." Vegetable oil goes instead to the DPW headquarters at 282 Leonia Avenue. The Center is at 157 West Fort Lee Road, Bogota, New Jersey 07603, across from Veteran's Memorial Park, open 8:00am to 2:00pm Monday through Friday and 9:00am to 1:00pm on Saturday, closed Sunday. Code Section 14-5A.16 authorizes the mayor and council to designate the Center "wherein borough residents may deposit and dispose of recyclable materials as defined by this section" and to prescribe posted rules for its use, and Section 14-5A.18 makes it a violation to place any material there that is not authorized. The Center is contacted through DPW Superintendent Gordon Kohles at 201-487-1041. Source Not confirmed: Bedding appears nowhere on the Recycling Center's accepted list, which covers motor oil, fluorescent bulbs, computers, televisions and tires; the Borough does not say a mattress is refused, so this is an absence from the list rather than a published refusal Not confirmed: No fee is published for any material at the Recycling Center Not confirmed: The code's stated hours for the Recycling Center differ from the hours the Borough currently posts, and the Borough has not published which governs
• Bogota starts its sanitation penalty with a warning rather than a fine, which is unusual among its neighbors. Code Section 14-4.10, Violations, provides that any person who violates Subsections 14-4.1 to 14-4.9 shall on conviction be liable as follows: "First offense - written warning", amended April 5, 2018 by Ordinance No. 1508; "Second offense - fine of not less than $100 and not more than $1,000, plus court costs"; and "Third and all subsequent offenses - fine of not less than $100 and not more than $1,000, plus court costs." Subsection b provides that "Each day that any violation exists or continues shall constitute a separate offense." Subsection c adds a consequence beyond the fine: a person convicted of violating Subsection 14-4.3 on a third offense must arrange private removal of the garbage generated on the premises and forfeits the right to municipal collection. Section 14-4.6 separately provides that "No ashes, garbage, paper, rubbish, soil, or other refuse or waste materials of any kind shall be thrown or deposited upon the streets or other public place within the borough limits, except as provided." Source Not confirmed: The penalty schedule in Section 14-4.10 applies to the garbage provisions at 14-4.1 to 14-4.9; the Borough does not state which penalty attaches to a violation of the monthly trash provision at Section 14-5A.7

• 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