How to get rid of a mattress in Manasquan, 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.

• Manasquan's solid waste ordinance establishes no bulk collection program at all, and makes the resident do the hauling for the heavy categories it does address. Chapter 21, Solid Waste Management, runs from § 21-1 to § 21-10 and contains no bulk item allowance, no bulk collection day, no bulk fee and no mention of a mattress or box spring anywhere. The phrase that looks like a bulk rule is not one: § 21-2.4, Exceptions to Prohibition [Ord. No. 2059-09 § 6], lists "Large bulky items (e.g. furniture, bound carpet and padding, white goods placed curbside for pickup" purely as an item exempted from the borough's stormwater prohibition on refuse containers and dumpsters, alongside "Permitted temporary demolition containers" and "Individual homeowner trash and recycling containers". It creates no collection entitlement and prices nothing. What the chapter does require is that residents transport several heavy categories themselves. Under § 21-7.1 it is mandatory for residents to separate white goods and scrap metal among other materials, and "White goods must be deposited in the dumpster at the Public Works Garage by the property owner/occupant." Leaves get a split year: "Leaves must be raked to the curb for collection by the Public Works Department from October 1 to December 15. From December 16 through September 30, leaves must be placed in clear plastic bags or containers and delivered to the Public Works Garage." Grass is not collected at all - "Grass cuttings must be left on the lawn or disposed of by the property owner/occupant" - and batteries "may be brought to the Public Works Garage or to selected merchants". Commingled recyclables go in a container "not to exceed 32 gallons in size" marked "RECYCLING", and newspapers "must be tied in bundles not to exceed 35 pounds". Set-out is governed by § 21-1.2: nothing at the curb "earlier than 24 hours prior to the designated time and date for collection of solid waste", and no empty receptacle left at the curb "later than 8:00 a.m. on the morning following the day of collection". Section 21-7.8 repeats the 24-hour rule for recyclables. Manasquan's penalties are the steepest in this group: § 21-10 [Ord. No. 2062-10 § 10] punishes violations of § 21-6 through § 21-9 by "For a first offense: $25 to $100. For a second offense: $50 to $250. For a third and/or subsequent offense: $100 to $1,500 and/or the performance of community service in the recycling programs, for a period not to exceed 90 days", with each day a separate offense and fines paid into the Municipal Recycling Trust Fund. Enforcement falls to the Manasquan Police Department and the Code Enforcement Official. The Public Works Department is at 201 East Main Street and can be reached at 732-223-0544. Source Not confirmed: Manasquan's own bulk pickup rules are published in a Recycling and Garbage brochure linked from the Public Works page rather than in the ordinance, and that document could not be read: the borough site has moved to a new platform, the brochure URL now returns HTTP 404, and the older brochure files on the previous host return 404 as well. So the borough's current bulk allowance, item limit, seasonal window and any fee were not established from a primary source. Not confirmed: Nothing in Chapter 21 says whether a mattress is collected in Manasquan, at what allowance, or for what charge, so no mattress price or allowance is recorded. Not confirmed: The code requires white goods and off-season leaves to be delivered to the Public Works Garage but does not give that garage's address, hours or residency rules, and no borough page stating them was retrievable, so it is not recorded as a drop-off. Not confirmed: Whether Manasquan collects its own trash or uses a contracted hauler was not established from a borough source.

• 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