How to get rid of a mattress in Clifton, 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.

• Not an option: Clifton runs two drop-off points but publishes neither of them for mattresses. The Rules for the Collection of Garbage page names the Recycling Center at the City Hall Complex, 900 Clifton Ave, open Monday through Saturday 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM, and the Public Works Yard at 307 E. 7th Street, open Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. - but it names them only in the Electronic Items section, as the place to take computers, monitors, printers, radios, stereos, telephone systems, televisions and VCRs, which "are your responsibility and will not be collected with your garbage". Bulk waste, including mattresses, is dealt with in a separate section that routes it to the curb, not to either yard. No City page publishes a mattress or bulky-waste drop-off, a per-item fee or a proof-of-residency rule for one. Source Not confirmed: Whether the Recycling Center or the Public Works Yard would in fact accept a mattress from a resident is not published either way; the 2026 Recycling Guide PDF could not be retrieved.
• Clifton's illegal dumping rule is Code Section 261-2, and it is unusually broad: "It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit, place or dump, or to allow or permit the dumping, depositing or placing of any refuse upon any land in the City." Section 261-1 defines refuse to include "garbage, offal, rubbish, paper, trash, stumps, junk, debris or other articles of waste material", so a dumped mattress is covered, and the rule reaches private land as well as public. Section 261-3 sets the penalty: "a fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment for term not exceeding 90 days, or both. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues." Source
• Not an option: There is no mattress-specific option in Clifton. The Mattress Recycling Council's own nationwide All Mattress Recyclers directory lists no facility with a New Jersey address - the only New Jersey-touching entries are CPS Recycling, shown as "Serving multiple states" from a single Illinois address, and Delaware Green Mattress Disassembling & Recycling in Wilmington, Delaware. The MRC states that "Free mattress recycling through the MRC is available only in states with mattress recycling laws" and names those as California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island, so there is no Bye Bye Mattress site in New Jersey and no state mattress program behind one. Source Not confirmed: A New Jersey Mattress Stewardship Act (Assembly Bill 1651) was reported out of committee in January 2026 but is not law; its status was not verified against a legislature page in this pass.
• Not an option: The nearest Habitat ReStore to Clifton has stopped taking donations altogether. The Passaic County Habitat for Humanity ReStore at 415 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne NJ 07470 now heads its donate page: "As of Friday, September 4th, 2026, the ReStore will no longer be accepting donations." The store itself is still trading (Tuesday through Saturday 10am-6pm, closed Sunday and Monday, 973-782-6993) and business donations are still invited through a separate route, but household donations of any kind - not only the mattresses it already excluded - are no longer taken. Source Not confirmed: The notice gives no end date, so whether the suspension is temporary is unknown. Not confirmed: No Clifton-based charity was found publishing a mattress acceptance policy of its own.

• 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