How to get rid of a mattress in Pine Hill, 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.

• Pine Hill's own Bulk page restates the ordinance in plainer words and adds the set-out rule. The Borough's Department of Public Works describes bulk as items large enough to warrant special collection rather than regular curbside pickup, and lists appliances, furniture, mattresses, carpet and padding, untreated heavy wood, untreated fencing materials, tires, and broken concrete or bricks as bulk items. It repeats that "Mattresses and box-springs shall be placed in separate plastic (polyethylene) bags," which it calls mattress bags, and that "You are limited to three (3) nonmetal bulk items per pickup." It states that bulk "must be placed at the curb the night before pickup, no sooner," that carts must be removed promptly and that leaving them out over 24 hours may bring a violation notice, that bulk pickup falls on periodic Fridays adjusted for holidays when regular trash and recycling take priority, and that residents must request a pickup "at least one day in advance" with the Borough. Its list of what is not collected as bulk runs to construction and remodeling materials, paneling, insulation, decks, fences, railroad ties, bricks, concrete, roofing, household trash, auto parts, pianos, vegetative waste, computers, televisions, windows, hazardous materials, pool tables and hot tubs, with contractors or homeowners responsible for removing those, and cardboard directed to a recycling cart. Motor vehicles, recreational vehicles and their bulk parts, demolition and construction debris, dirt, stone, broken concrete and hazardous waste may not be placed for collection. The page lists tires both as a bulk item and among the items not collected, and it names no fee of any kind. Source Not confirmed: The page contradicts itself on tires, naming them both as a bulk item and among the items that will not be collected Not confirmed: No fee is published for a bulk item and the page never calls the collection free Not confirmed: The page does not give the phone number or form used to request a bulk pickup Not confirmed: The annual collection calendar that carries the periodic Friday dates is linked rather than reproduced, so the dates are 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