How to get rid of a mattress in Gallatin, TN.

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.

• Gallatin's garbage collection is optional and billed, which is what makes the bulk pickup eligibility rule bite: "Service is $21 per container per month billed through your Gallatin or White House Utility Bill." Because the monthly bulk run is for current City of Gallatin Trash customers only, a household inside the city limits that has not taken the $21 service has no city bulk pickup to call. Carts are collected Monday through Thursday and must be at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on the scheduled day and back on the property within 24 hours, with handles facing away from the street, lids fully closed and 3 feet of clearance from mailboxes, poles or other objects. Each account gets two free courtesy dumps per calendar year, which covers a can that was not out on time or was wrongly positioned. Carts are customer-owned; one bought from Gallatin Public Utilities is $65 including tax with a 10-year warranty. Backdoor pickup is available to residents with no able-bodied person in the home, on a doctor's note approved by the Public Works Director, and house-side pickup for a driveway of 400 feet or more is $8 per month. Source Not confirmed: The page does not say whether a household inside the city limits may decline city trash service in favor of a private hauler, only that the city service is optional. Not confirmed: No mattress or bulky item rule appears on the garbage page itself.

• No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on TDEC pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source
• TDEC Materials Management page links a 'Where may I dispose of recycle items near me?' ArcGIS dashboard (arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/f7515b25ca29478a8adc6a9dc8c1f7c1); program supports 95 counties and solid waste planning regions. Source
• The ArcGIS dashboard TDEC links from its Materials Management page is titled "County Recycling Centers". Its correct address is arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/f7515b25ca29478a8adc6a9dc8c1f7c1 — this corrects the partially recorded id in st-tn-102 (the id f7515b25ca29478a8a1b9bd68a4bba51 returns "item cannot be found"). It is the statewide map residents use to find county recycling centers. Source
• TDEC's Waste Management Branch page lists the state's full set of solid waste programs — Solid Waste, Landfill Operators Certification, waste tire hauler, hazardous and medical waste, and Materials Management (Recovered Materials, grants, HHW, waste tires, organics, debris management, BOPAE household batteries/oil/paint/antifreeze/electronics). No mattress program, bulky-waste rule or disposal ban appears. The page also links the Solid Waste Dataviewer (dataviewers.tdec.tn.gov/dataviewers/f?p=19035:34001), which searches facility information, inspection reports, complaints and forms. It notes that, effective August 1, Materials Management moves into TDEC's Division of Stakeholder Engagement with programs and services continuing unchanged. Source
• Mattress Recycling Council's Program States page names exactly four program states — California, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Oregon. Tennessee is not among them, confirming there is no MRC-run mattress stewardship program or Bye Bye Mattress free drop-off network in Tennessee. Source