How to get rid of a mattress in Haddonfield, 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 handout Haddonfield still serves to residents describes the arrangement that the August 2026 ordinance replaced, and it is the only Borough document that names a mattress. The Borough's "Trash Rules and Regulations, Residential Zones," issued on Board of Commissioners letterhead in July 2025, carries a bullet reading: "Bulk Items - Furniture, appliances, mattresses, etc. These items will be picked up with the weekly collection and must be no larger than what can fit in the back of a standard 8' pickup truck bed, nor heavier than two men can safely lift." It adds that "These items will be picked up separately during the trash day," that refrigerator doors must be removed, and that carpet is taken only cut into 4-foot lengths and rolled in pieces not over 50 pounds. The same handout caps ordinary trash at "6 pieces per week, per residence" and says that "No single item (except bulk items as delineated below) may weigh more than 50 pounds at time of collection" — an express carve-out of bulk items from the fifty-pound rule, which the August 2026 ordinance reverses by capping bulk items at 50 pounds each. The handout also describes a move-out allowance: "The borough provides one 'Move-Out' pickup per residence to assist homeowners when selling their home. This special pickup relaxes the 6 piece per residence limit and allows for additional items to be placed for pickup on the scheduled trash day." It sends anything larger elsewhere: "Excessively large amounts of trash or household cleanouts will require a dumpster or disposed at a state approved sanitary landfill such as the Pennsauken Landfill, at the property owner's cost." The move-out pickup must be booked in advance with the Borough's trash removal company, Waste Management, at 800-633-9096. Public Works is at 856-429-0183 and Borough Hall at 242 Kings Highway East, 856-429-4700. The handout predates Ordinance 2026-14 by a year, so where the two differ the ordinance governs and the handout is out of date. Source Not confirmed: The Borough has not reissued the handout since Ordinance 2026-14 was adopted on August 17, 2026, so whether the move-out pickup, the pickup-truck-bed size test and the two-man lifting test survive the new monthly bulk rule is not established Not confirmed: No charge is published for a bulk item or for the move-out pickup and neither document calls either free Not confirmed: The handout does not say whether the move-out pickup can be used for a mattress specifically, or how many items it allows Not confirmed: The judge's fines for the violations the handout says will be enforced are not stated and no ordinance section is cited for them

• 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