How to get rid of a mattress in Buffalo, NY.

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.

• Sources disagree: Erie County Recycling's Buffalo page states city residents may set out "Two (2) pieces of bulk trash for collection on their regular collection day," listing "mattresses, box springs" among bulk trash examples, and repeats the "Pick and Pay start at $150" figure and the Council-District Large Bulk Trash schedule. This two-item figure conflicts with the City of Buffalo's own current pages, which state three bulk items per week year-round. Source Not confirmed: Erie County says two weekly bulk items; the City of Buffalo says three. Neither page is dated, so which is current cannot be settled from the pages themselves.
• Not an option: Journey's End Refugee Services (2495 Main St, Suite 530, Buffalo, NY 14214) lists "mattresses" among items it cannot accept. It takes "very limited donations of couches, kitchen tables, chairs, and bedroom dressers, on an as-needed basis," by scheduled weekday pickup or by appointment drop-off. Mattresses are not a donation route here. Source
• Not an option: UPward Design For Life (donation center on Genesee Street, Cheektowaga, NY; mail P.O. Box 327, Buffalo, NY 14215) accepts "New twin, full or queen mattresses and box springs, in original packaging" but states "We DO NOT accept: Used mattress sets." Pickups need "a minimum of two weeks to plan" and the group does not "travel more than 20 minutes from our donation center on Genesee Street in Cheektowaga, NY." A used mattress cannot be donated here. Source

• Linked document is headed Adopted Fees for 2026, despite 2025 in URL. Text specifies $25 five-punch card; day-use tipping $145/ton with $30 minimum. Punch-card webpage instead lists $140/ton at scalehouse. Weight-based pricing remains a source conflict; no mattress-only total is calculated. Source
• No New York mattress stewardship program in effect. S1463B (mattress EPR; same-as A1209) passed the Senate (April 21, 2026; again June 4, 2026 after amendment) and is in Assembly Ways and Means; not signed. As drafted: producer plans due to DEC by Dec 31, 2028; retailer sales restriction from Dec 31, 2029. Source
• NYSDEC publishes a statewide county-by-county list of Local Recycling Coordinators and regional DEC recycling contacts to help residents with reuse, recycling, and garbage questions; DEC reuse pages point to the NYS Reuse Locator Map. No statewide mattress landfill ban found on DEC recycling pages. Source