How to get rid of a mattress in Millington, 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.

• Millington runs its own sanitation crews rather than a contractor, and what it publishes is a cart service with no bulky-item program attached. The City of Millington Sanitation Division, one of seven divisions of Public Works, collects weekly: "Household garbage should be placed at the curb in the City-issued 95 gallon garbage cart by 6:00 AM on your scheduled collection day. If you do not have a curb, please place the container at the end of your driveway or along side the drive." Overflow is allowed, but only in bags next to the cart: "Excess garbage may be placed in sealed plastic bags and placed on top or beside your garbage cart. City crews cannot collect garbage scattered from broken / torn plastic bags or garbage in non City issued carts." One cart comes with the address, and "If an additional cart is required, it can be leased for an additional fee of $8.00 per month for a period of twelve (12) months." Carts carrying the City seal are City property and the homeowner must replace one stolen or damaged other than by normal use. The City's sanitation pages cover residential waste collection, recyclable items, unacceptable waste, yard waste and hazardous waste, and none of them describes a bulky-item, large-item or furniture pickup, or any way to request one. A search of the City's own website for "mattress" returns no results at all. Source Not confirmed: The City publishes no bulky-item or large-item collection program and no way to request one, and it does not state that it refuses such items either, so how a Millington resident is meant to put out a mattress is not established. Not confirmed: Millington's Sanitation Code is published only as a Title 17 PDF on the MTAS site, which refused automated access, so the ordinance was not read; the City also notes that changes approved by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen since August 13, 2018 have not yet been codified.
• Millington publishes a short, itemized list of what its crews will not collect, and bedding is not on it. The City's Unacceptable Waste page states "The City of Millington unfortunately cannot collect the following: rocks, concrete, dirt, contractor - related debris such as carpet, drywall, roofing materials, etc." and directs those materials elsewhere: "These material should be taken to Allied Waste located at 7107 Old Millington Road. For more information, please contact Republic (Allied Waste) at 901.872.7200." Mattresses and furniture are absent from the refusal list, which is a gap rather than permission: the City has not said it takes them either. Source Not confirmed: Mattresses are absent from the City's refusal list and absent from any accepted list, so the curbside position on bedding is not established.
• Not an option: Millington's own drop-off center names the mattress and turns it away. The City operates the Millington Recycling Center at 4658 Biloxi Avenue, Millington, TN 38053, phone 901-873-5656, described on the City's facility page as a "drop-off center for recycling cans, plastic, paper and cardboard in the appropriate bins for Millington residents", reached "off of Navy Road; turn south by Spin City onto Newport Road, keep driving until the 4-way stop at Biloxi St, turn right (west) and the drop-off center is at the end of the cove." The exclusion is printed in the City's own capitals and names the item: "NOT ACCEPTED: glass, hazardous waste, household trash, tires, batteries, aerosol cans, mattresses, or oil containers." The City sends those items to the Memphis and Shelby County Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility at 6305 Haley Road, which is a hazardous waste site and does not take bedding either. So the one place in Millington a resident might think to haul a mattress is explicitly closed to it, and the trip is wasted. Source
• Not an option: Millington repeats the mattress refusal on its recycling page, so the position is not an accident of one listing. The City's Recyclable Items page accepts cardboard, mixed paper, aluminum, metal cans and plastic, all "clean of residue" with boxes broken down, and then prints a Non-Accepted Items list that runs: "Household Trash, Glass, Aerosol Cans, Empty Oil Containers, Non-recyclables, Furniture, Styrofoam, Plastic Bags, Batteries, Tires, Electronics, Mattresses, Paint, Oil, PVC Pipe, Scrap Metal, Used Plant Containers, Dirty Food Containers." Both Furniture and Mattresses are named. The page adds "Please place all items in the bins provided. Do not leave bags or trash in the recycling area", and gives 901.873.5656 for a full bin. Source

• 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