How to get rid of a mattress in Matawan, 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.

• Matawan Borough's Recycling Center is gated by an access card and its published accepted list does not include bedding. The center is at 62 Main Street, Matawan, and the borough states that "In order to access the center, Matawan Residents must go to the Municipal Building to obtain an access card. Each residence will receive one access card." Residents must schedule an appointment at 732-566-3898 x600 or recycling@matawanborough.com to collect the card from the Matawan Municipal Building at 201 Broad Street, window 2, and must bring "proof of residency - (driver's license with current address) or property tax bill" plus "vehicle plate numbers (up to four at the same address)". The borough notes that "Each residence will receive one initial access card (fee free)." Hours are Monday through Friday 7:00 am to 7:00 pm and Saturday and Sunday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. The "Items allowed" list is itemized - commingled bottles and cans, corrugated cardboard, newspaper and mixed paper, brush of branches three inches in diameter or less, yard debris, and metals - followed by a long list of allowed electronics, and the page closes with "- No trash or construction debris of any kind -". Bedding appears nowhere in either list. Source Not confirmed: The center's accepted lists are itemized and a mattress or box spring appears in neither them nor any refusal, so the center's bedding policy is not established.
• Matawan Borough changed garbage and recycling haulers partway through 2026 and rezoned collection at the same time. The borough's own notice is headed "MATAWAN ANNOUNCES New Garbage & Recycling Schedule Effective MAY 11" and says "The Borough of Matawan will transition to a new garbage and recycling hauler, Jersey Specialized Hauling, Inc., beginning May 11, following the expiration of its previous contract." Residents saw "a modified pickup schedule" and the borough "aligned garbage and recycling zones with the existing leaf collection zones used in the annual Recycling Calendar". Garbage collection became "Zone 1 & 2 (Route 34 South): Friday", "Zone 3 (Route 34 North): Monday" and "Zone 4 (Route 34 North): Tuesday", with recycling on Thursday for Zones 1 and 2 and Wednesday for Zones 3 and 4, keeping the alternating White Week and Blue Week pattern. Problems with collection go to "Jersey Specialized Hauling, Inc.: 732-251-5747". The notice also tells residents that "If your pickup is missed due to a holiday or severe weather, all remaining pickups that week will move" by one day. Source Not confirmed: The borough's hauler notice and 2026 zone calendar carry no bulk item rule at all, so the bulk allowance and whether a mattress is collected are not established from it.
• Matawan Borough's recycling page still describes the collection arrangement its own 2026 hauler notice replaced, and it places apartment residents outside the borough's published rules. The page states "TRASH pickup will be on Monday" and "RECYCLING pickup will remain on Thursday (dual stream program)" and directs missed collections to the previous hauler - "FOR MISSED TRASH OR RECYCLING PICKUP PLEASE CONTACT RTS @ 1-833-787-4636 or EMAIL MATAWAN@RTS.COM" - while the borough's separate 2026 contract notice moved collection to Jersey Specialized Hauling on zoned days from May 11. The page's container rule is "All recycling should be placed in a recycling can (32 Gallon or less) clearly labeled recycling - not in plastic bags. Only trash should be placed in plastic bags and in a trash can (64 Gallon or less)." For apartments the borough does not publish a rule at all: "Residents in Apt. Complexes need to contact the property manager at their complex for information on Trash and Recycling required for their apartment complex and location of where to place recycling." Source Not confirmed: The borough's recycling page and its 2026 hauler notice give different collection days and different haulers, and the borough does not say which is current. Not confirmed: Residents of apartment complexes are referred to their property manager, so no borough rule for bedding at an apartment complex is published.
• Matawan Borough publishes its bulk item allowance only inside its annual trash and recycling calendar, and that allowance could not be read from a primary source. The borough's recycling page links a "2026-2027 Trash and Recycling Calendar (Full Copy)", a "2026 Trash and Recycling Calendar REVISED" and a "Matawan Mini Calendar 2026 (corrected)". The mini calendar and the borough's 2026 hauler notice were both read in full and neither contains any bulk item rule; the two full-copy calendars, which a search index suggests carry the allowance, exceeded the size this review could retrieve and the borough's server would not serve them as readable text. What the borough does publish on the page itself is the container rule only. Source Not confirmed: The number of bulk items allowed per collection, whether a mattress counts among them, and any wrapping rule are published only in a calendar document that could not be retrieved, so Matawan's bulk allowance is not established.

• 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