How to get rid of a mattress in Oradell, 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.

• Oradell publishes an appointment pickup and names only three kinds of item on it, none of them bedding. The Borough's Household Garbage Pick-Ups page says: "Garbage is picked up at the curb twice a week all year", "Picked up on Mondays and Thursdays", and then, under "Pick-ups by Appointment": "The DPW will pick up the following items on Mondays, by appointment only: Appliances, Metal Items, Electronics. Please call the Department of Public Works office at 201-261-8610 between the hours of 7:30 am and 3:15 pm to schedule a pick-up." That three-item list is the whole of Oradell's published special collection; there is no bulk, bulky-waste or large-item run alongside it. The ordinary route is capped by number and by weight: "No more than five containers weighing a maximum of 60 lbs. each will be picked up on any collection day." Set-out is tied to the Code: "Garbage containers may be placed at the curb after 5 pm on the day prior to regular collection and must be removed before 7 pm on the day of the collection, in accordance with Borough Code Chapter 190-6 (\"Property Maintenance\")." Borough Hall is at 355 Kinderkamack Road, Oradell, New Jersey 07649, phone 201-261-8200. Source Not confirmed: Oradell's appointment list names appliances, metal items and electronics and nothing else. Mattresses, box springs and furniture appear on it neither as accepted nor as refused, and the Borough publishes no separate bulk collection, so what a resident does with a mattress is not established. The absence from an itemized list is recorded as a gap, not as a refusal. Not confirmed: No fee is published for the appointment pickup. Not confirmed: The five-container, sixty-pound cap is written against garbage containers, not against bulk items, and no bulk item cap is published.
• Oradell's residents-only Recycling Center publishes both an accepted list and a refused list, and bedding is on neither. The accepted list reads: "Plastic Number 's 1,2 and 5 only NO PLASTIC BAGS", "Aluminum", "Glass", "Newspaper", "Cardboard", "Grass clippings/tree branches/vegetative waste", "Metals", "Appliances", "Books (hard covers must be removed)", "Phone books", "Clothes", "TV", "Computers", "Motor oil". The refused list reads: "Tires", "Plastic bags", "Styrofoam", "Hazardous waste", "Paint", "Compressed gas cylinders", "Construction debris", "Sheetrock", "Fencing", "Plumbing items", "Carpet", "Concrete", "Windows", "Household trash", "Household / automotive batteries". Carpet and household trash are refused by name; mattresses and furniture are named in neither list. The Center is at 2 Marginal Road, Oradell, NJ 07649, telephone (201) 261-8610, and is restricted: "The Recycling Center is operated by the Borough's Department of Public Works and is for use by Oradell residents only", with "no commercial dumping" and "The Recycling Center's main gates are locked outside of opening hours." The dumpsters are drawn even more narrowly: "Dumpsters are located at the Recycling Center and may be used by verified Oradell residents for the disposal of the following items: newspapers, cardboard boxes, commingled recyclable materials (e.g., cans and bottles), metal/white goods, grass, vegetative waste, branches, and clothing." The Borough gives the Center's weekday hours twice and differently on the same page: the body text says "open to residents Monday though Friday from 10 am to 3 pm and on the first and third Saturday of every month from 9 am to noon", while the contact panel beside it says "Monday through Friday 8 am to 3 pm, 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month: 9 am to noon." Source Not confirmed: Mattresses and box springs appear on neither the Center's accepted list nor its refused list, so whether the Center takes one is not established. Their absence from two itemized lists is a gap, not a refusal. Not confirmed: The Borough's own page gives weekday opening as 10 am to 3 pm in its body text and 8 am to 3 pm in its contact panel, and publishes nothing reconciling them. Not confirmed: No fees or per-visit limits are published for the Recycling Center.
• Oradell's code counts bedding within its definition of "rubbish" and points at a sanitation chapter the published code no longer contains. Chapter 190, the "Real Property Maintenance Code of the Borough of Oradell", adopted October 16, 1990 by Ord. No. 880, defines that term as "Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials", and refuse as "All putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste (except body wastes) including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles and solid market and industrial wastes." The chapter puts the duty on the occupier: "it shall be the duty and responsibility of the owner, operator or occupant of the premises to comply with any or all the requirements and standards of this code, to keep the premises free of conditions which constitute violations hereof and to promptly remove, prevent or abate such conditions", and "to keep the premises free of refuse, natural growth, overhangings, ground surface hazards or unsanitary conditions." Both Chapter 190 and Chapter 198, Recycling, carry a general reference reading "Sanitation — See Ch. 310", but Chapter 310 does not appear in the Borough's published table of contents, which runs from Chapter 290, Yard and Autumn Leaf Waste, without it, and the link the Code itself provides to that chapter returns "Content Unavailable". The Borough's own garbage page nonetheless cites "Borough Code Chapter 190-6 (\"Property Maintenance\")" as the authority for its curbside timing rules. Source Not confirmed: Oradell's Code cross-references a sanitation chapter, Chapter 310, that is absent from the published code and whose own link returns "Content Unavailable", so any bulk collection rule or charge that chapter may once have carried could not be read. The Code was checked through legislation to September 24, 2024.

• 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