How to get rid of a mattress in Little Silver, 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.

• Little Silver's own drop-off is for residents only and takes containers of recyclables, not furniture. The borough's Recycling Update for January 2026 states that "The Borough Recycling Center is located at the Public Works Garage, 22 Fairview Avenue" and that "The Recycling Center is open for the convenience of residents only of the Borough of Little Silver." Hours are "Open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 12 noon", "Closed Sunday and all Borough holidays", with Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve open 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. only. The holiday list for 2026 names New Year's Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday, Lincoln's Birthday, President's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Election Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day and the Friday of Thanksgiving weekend, and Christmas. What the center is for is spelled out in the same notice: commingled glass, cans, plastics, cardboard, newspapers and miscellaneous paper, in "a durable covered container, no larger than 45 gallons, not exceeding 50 lbs", with recyclables not to be placed in plastic bags, paper bags or cardboard boxes. The borough warns that "If you do not follow the curbside collection instructions, your recyclables WILL NOT be collected", and that because the County Reclamation Center "will refuse to accept the entire truckload of recyclables and will fine the Borough" if trash is mixed in, "the Borough will fine residents who mix trash with recyclables or who fail to separate recyclables properly." Shredded paper "is not recyclable, this is to be disposed of with trash", grass clippings have no curbside collection, and limbs and branches must be "Cut in 4 foot lengths or less, no more than 12 inches diameter". Leaf collection is governed by Borough Ordinance #631-06, which the notice says "will be strictly enforced". The recycling coordinator is Sharon Kavendek, reachable at 732-842-2400. Source Not confirmed: The Recycling Update itemizes what the 22 Fairview Avenue center accepts and a mattress appears nowhere in that list, but the notice does not print a refusal of bedding either, so whether a Little Silver resident may haul a mattress to the Public Works garage was not established and should be confirmed with Borough Hall before making the trip. Not confirmed: No per-item or per-load charge is published for the Little Silver Recycling Center, so no price is established for self-hauling anything there.

• 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