How to get rid of a mattress in Jonesborough, 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.

• Jonesborough's drop-off answer rules a mattress out, which is useful to know before loading a truck. The town's recycling drop-off at 100 Old State Road 34 takes "clean #1 (PET) and #2 (HDPE) plastic recyclables and broken-down, flattened cardboard" and nothing else, so it is a site for packaging and not for furniture; the town publishes no curbside recycling route at all. The brush yard is likewise not a household bulk site: the brush truck "travels on a set schedule of streets throughout the Town Monday - Thursday", "Brush shall be no larger than 8 inches (8") in diameter and 8 feet (8') in length", "Brush or debris may not be placed in or hanging over the street", metal that could damage the grinder means "the brush/yard waste will not be picked up", and "Processed lumber and other such construction material will not be picked up with tree trimmings". Stumps are outside the normal route - "The Town will not pick up tree stumps and roots with normal brush collection" - and must be "clean of dirt, wire and stone" and small or light enough to collect. Anyone driving to the brush facility must "call the yard operator at 423-791-1382 thirty (30) minutes prior to arrival for gate access", and the town "does not accept tree brush and trimmings from contractors" there. What the town does sell back is mulch: "One bucketful of composted leaf mulch (approximately 2.0 cubic yards) is $30.00 plus tax" and "One bucketful of wood mulch (approximately 2.0 cubic yards) is $25.00 plus tax." Hazardous waste is kept out of both streams - "Hazardous waste may not be placed in garbage totes or recycling bins" - the named items being "used motor oil, anti-freeze, pesticides, aerosols, batteries, items with mercury". For a resident with a mattress, the town's own published route is the Friday bulk junk pickup, not a gate. Source Not confirmed: The town publishes no street address, hours or rate card for a site that accepts household bulk, so Jonesborough has no recorded self-haul answer for a mattress inside the town. Not confirmed: The recycling drop-off's hours are not published on the page. Not confirmed: Dumpster rental is offered at "a $50 per month rental fee plus a $125.00 monthly pick up charge one time per week", which is a container rate rather than a per-item disposal price, so it is not recorded as a mattress price.

• 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