How to get rid of a mattress in Oak Ridge, TN.

If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.

Casper

Free

Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. Source

Purple

Free

Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source

Raymour & Flanigan

Free

New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source

Rooms To Go

Free

New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Oak Ridge and its neighbors.

• Anderson County, Tennessee runs seven drop-off sites and publishes no mattress fee at any of them, because none of them names a mattress as something it takes. The county's Department of Solid Waste Management & Recycling lists its sites in full on one page: Briceville at 1413 Briceville Highway, Briceville; Frost Bottom at 289 Frost Bottom Road, Oliver Springs; Glen Alpine at 3065 Norris Freeway, Andersonville; Green Valley at 1992 Lake City Highway, Clinton; Marlow at 11 Ford Road, Clinton; East Wolf Valley at 2520 East Wolf Valley Road, Clinton; and the Blockhouse Valley Center on Blockhouse Valley Road, Clinton. The first six are open 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, under hours that took effect January 6, 2025; Blockhouse Valley is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. What each site takes is published as a specific list, not a general phrase: the six garbage centers take household garbage plus recyclables, which at Briceville and Frost Bottom means mixed plastics numbered 1 through 7, used motor oil and filters, antifreeze and newsprint, and at the other four means the same single-stream mix plus mixed paper, cardboard, steel food cans and aluminum cans. Blockhouse Valley is the county's recycling center and takes mixed paper, electronics, oil-based paint, spray paint, tires, scrap metal, appliances, fluorescent light bulbs, lead acid and rechargeable batteries, lithium and button-style batteries, motor oil and filters, and antifreeze. No mattress, box spring, bedding, furniture or bulky household item appears on any of those lists, and no fee of any kind is published for any site. The only landfill in the county, Chestnut Ridge at 140 Fleenor Mill Road, Heiskell, is owned and operated by Waste Management, Inc. rather than by the county, and its posted acceptable-materials list is a set of industrial categories — asbestos, auto shredder fluff, biosolids, construction and demolition debris, drum management solids, industrial and special waste, Liquifix, municipal solid waste and yard waste — that names no mattress either. The county does keep a role at that gate: its page tells residents who have 'trouble proving residence when you go to the landfill' to print and send in a Solid Waste Residency Verification Form. Anderson County also closes its centers to out-of-county users. A county media release of December 23, 2024 announcing the new hours carries the subheading 'Proof of Residency could be requested' and says that 'in order to ensure tax dollars are serving only Anderson County residents, citizens may be asked to show a driver license or utility bill to reduce out-of-county use.' Source Not confirmed: Whether an Anderson County convenience center will take a mattress at all is not published; the accepted-materials lists are specific and name none, and no fee is published for any site. Not confirmed: Whether Chestnut Ridge Landfill, which is privately owned and operated, accepts a mattress from a walk-in resident, and at what price, is not published by the county or on the materials list the county reproduces.
• Anderson County, Tennessee runs no collection of its own. Its Department of Solid Waste Management & Recycling publishes one page covering everything the department does, and that page describes only the seven drop-off sites and the Chestnut Ridge Landfill — there is no curbside route, no bulky item pickup, no large item appointment and no eligibility rule for one, for unincorporated residents or anyone else. The county's answer to a large item is a drop-off day rather than a collection. A county media release of May 3, 2024 announced that 'The Chestnut Ridge Landfill, 140 Fleenor Mill Road in Heiskell, will extend its Saturday hours — for one day only — until 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 18th, for Anderson County residents to dispose of items that cannot go to county convenience centers.' That sentence is the clearest statement the county makes about the limits of its own centers, and what the day itself covers is listed just as narrowly: 'This includes brush, limbs, and other wood waste (large limbs and tree debris should be cut into manageable lengths of no longer than 5 feet), construction materials, or large loads of garbage.' No mattress, box spring, bedding or furniture is named for the cleaning day either. The day is for residents only and identification is checked: 'At the landfill, residents must show a valid ID for proof of residence, and/or current utility bill with their name and Anderson County address', residents must wear a high-visibility safety vest, which can be bought at the landfill for $5 or borrowed from the county, and 'This event is for Anderson County residents to bring items from their personal residences only. Contractors will be turned away.' Oak Ridge, the largest town in the county, runs its own public works department and whatever collection it offers is the city's program and not the county's; that belongs on the Oak Ridge page rather than here. Source Not confirmed: Whether the county has held a spring cleaning day since the May 18, 2024 one, and on what date, was not established. Not confirmed: What the City of Oak Ridge collects, and on what terms, is a city question and was not researched at the county level.