How to get rid of a mattress in Mount Juliet, 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.

• Mount Juliet is a city of 45,000 that runs no household waste collection of any kind, and it says so in its own words. The City of Mt. Juliet Stormwater Management Plan filed under permit TNS075451 states, under the heading Waste Disposal: "City of Mt. Juliet contracts municipal waste to be removed by waste collection services. City of Mt. Juliet does not offer solid waste removal or transfer stations as a level of service. Transfer stations are operated outside the city limits by Wilson County Solid Waste." That is the whole municipal answer for a mattress here. There is no city bulky-item run to book, no city allowance to use up, no city fee schedule to read and no city drop-off inside the city limits, because the city has declared solid waste removal to be outside its levels of service. A resident's realistic options are the private hauler they already pay for curbside service, the Wilson County facilities outside the city limits, or carrying the item themselves. The city's only curbside collection of its own is the brush and chipper service run by Public Works, which takes yard brush and nothing else. Source Not confirmed: The plan says municipal waste is contracted to waste collection services but does not name the contractor, state whether a resident chooses their own hauler, or publish any rate. Not confirmed: Because the city sets no bulky-item terms at all, no city mattress fee, allowance or set-out window exists to record.
• The one curbside collection Mount Juliet does operate is brush, and its own rules confirm it will not take a mattress or any other household item. The brush collection and chipper service "is provided by the Department of Public Works to all single family residential properties with frontage on a public street," is run on a routed basis, and is suspended when it is raining or snowing or after a significant storm. The published limits are about wood: "Branches/limbs less than 15 feet in length" and "No limbs larger than 10-inches in diameter will be accepted." The exclusions rule out everything that is not clean brush: "No lot clearing debris or whole trees will be accepted," "No metal or wire (fencing, electrical cable, etc) will be accepted," "Brush intertwined with plastics will not be accepted," and "Debris that is the byproduct of commercial cutting/trimming will not be accepted." The page warns that "failure to comply with these rules will result in the material not being accepted by the City for processing." A mattress is a sprung, fabric-covered item with metal inside it and is not brush, so this route is not a way to get one collected. The Public Works office number for the service is 615-773-7957. Source Not confirmed: The page does not name a mattress, a bulky item or household furniture in either direction; the finding here is that the service is confined to brush by its own published scope and limits, not that a mattress is listed as refused.
• With no city collection, a Mount Juliet resident falls back on Wilson County, and the county's own convenience center page sets a hard eligibility test: "Wilson County Residents Only (Must have a Wilson County vehicle tag)." That rule does cover a Mount Juliet household, since Mount Juliet is in Wilson County, but it rules out a visitor from Davidson or Rutherford and it means the gate check is the tag on the vehicle rather than a utility bill. The centers are open daily from 7:00AM to 4:30PM, with "One Visit Per Day," and the page warns that a resident "may be instructed to carry your load to the Landfill." Box trucks, U-Hauls, enclosed trailers, partial loads, commercial loads and scavenging are all barred. What makes this page matter for bedding is that the per-visit allowance is itemized by category and a mattress appears nowhere in it: the allowances given include "2 Pieces of Furniture (couch & chair)," "2 Appliances," "One 8x10 Piece of Carpet or Rug" and "5 Pieces of Lumber (flooring included)." Carpet, furniture and appliances are each named and capped; a mattress and a box spring are not named at all, and no fee is published for one. Mount Juliet's own Fire Department FAQ points residents to this county operation as the Wilson Co Solid Waste and Recycling Center at 3519 Stewarts Ferry Pike, Mt. Juliet, TN 37122, 615-449-4359. Source Not confirmed: A mattress and a box spring are absent from an otherwise itemized per-visit allowance list that names furniture, appliances, carpet and lumber. That is a gap in the list, not a published refusal, and it must not be upgraded to either an acceptance or a refusal. Not confirmed: The county page does not list its convenience center street addresses, so the Stewarts Ferry Pike address recorded here comes from the City of Mt. Juliet's own page rather than from the county. Not confirmed: No mattress fee is published by the county at either the centers or the landfill.
• Because Mount Juliet collects no household waste, the city's enforceable interest in a mattress is what sits on the property rather than what goes out at the curb. The Code Enforcement Division, part of the Building and Codes Department, states under common code violations that "All persons in the City of Mt. Juliet are required to keep their premises clean and sanitary and free of debris." The same page carries the city's other routinely enforced property rules, including grass no taller than 10 inches and a bar on keeping an inoperable or unlicensed vehicle in the city limits unless it is in an enclosed building. Violations are reported through the city's SeeClickFix portal, by email to the codes official, or on the hotline at 615-773-6246. For a resident this is the live risk in a town with no municipal bulky route: there is no city pickup to book, but a mattress left in a yard or beside a building is reachable as debris on the premises. The page links to the Code of Ordinances for the City of Mount Juliet for the underlying text. Source Not confirmed: The page states the premises rule in the city's own summary words but does not cite the ordinance section number, and the underlying code text was not retrieved. Not confirmed: No penalty amount for a debris violation is published on the page.

• 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