How to get rid of a mattress in Freehold, 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.

• Freehold Borough runs a Department of Public Works drop-off site at 161 Center Street, Freehold, reachable at 732 462-3033, but publishes no mattress policy for it. The borough's disposal guide sends two categories there: brush, which "Residents may also drop off ... at the DPW center at 161 Center St. the first Saturday of the month from 7a.m. - noon" and which "must be cut into lengths of 4 ft. or less"; and electronics, where "ELECTRONIC ITEMS such as televisions, printers, computers, etc. must be recycled by taking them to the DPW site at 161 Center Street" and "There is no charge for this service." Curbside brush is limited to April, July and October, and each street's brush "is ONLY picked up ONE time". Bedding is not named among the site's accepted materials; the borough handles mattresses through its curbside bulk run instead. Source Not confirmed: The borough publishes no accepted-items list and no mattress policy for the Center Street DPW site, so whether a resident may take a mattress there is not established.
• Freehold Borough's current trash page names its hauler and caps the containers it will lift. The page tells residents to have "all garbage and recycling out for pick by no later than 6:30am" and carries "An Important Message from Delisa Waste, the Borough's Garbage Hauler". The container rule is "All containers must not be smaller than 20 gallons or greater than 32 gallons in size. The containers shall not weigh more than 50 pounds." Trash and recycling "WILL NOT BE COLLECTED ON THANKSGIVING, CHRISTMAS, & NEW YEAR'S DAY". Under a recycling notice the borough adds that "DeLisa Demolition & Disposal will no longer pick up any recycling material unless it is in the Freehold Borough blue or yellow bucket, or a similar type garbage can." Questions go to 732 462-4200, option 8 then option 1, and the page links the borough's "How Do I Dispose Of...." guide, which is where the mattress and bulk rules sit. Source Not confirmed: The 20-to-32-gallon and 50-pound container rule is written for garbage containers, and the borough does not say whether any weight cap applies to a bulk item or a mattress. Not confirmed: The trash page itself says nothing about bulk items or mattresses.

• 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