How to get rid of a mattress in Signal Mountain, 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.

• Signal Mountain's brush program is year-round and generous, and the reason it belongs on a mattress page is the ordinance it is enforced under and the hard line it draws against anything that is not brush. The town says "Brush trucks run a continuous route year-round which usually takes two to four weeks to complete, depending on quantity" and, in the sentence a reader hoping to flag down the truck needs, "There are no special pickups or deviations from the route." The size rule is "Brush must be cut into approximately 10-foot lengths, no larger than 10-inches in diameter," and brush must "be placed at the curb on your own property", with "Brush not conforming to these size restrictions will not be picked up." Placement is a code matter, not a courtesy: "All brush & yard debris must be placed strictly on private property and not in the public right-of-way", and "Brush & yard debris placed in the public right-of-way violate Town Code (Title 16 & Title 17) and are subject to Code Enforcement action." That is the local rule a reader searches for and rarely finds answered - in Signal Mountain, putting household bulk in the right-of-way is not merely uncollected, it is enforceable. The town also says who pays for the route - "Year-round collections of yard wastes including brush, tree trimmings, and leaves are funded by property taxes" - and who does not get it: "No brush or tree trimmings will be picked up if work is done by a contractor. A contractor must dispose of any brush they cut." Small material is pushed back into the cart: "Twigs, trimmings, and grass clippings must not be disposed of by placing them directly on the street. Residents should put them in their Town-provided garbage cart instead." "Raked leaves must be separate from brush." And the mulch that used to come back the other way has stopped: "Free Mulch is no longer available." Source Not confirmed: The town cites Town Code Title 16 and Title 17 on its own page but does not reproduce either, so the ordinance text and any penalty figure were not read. Not confirmed: The brush page says nothing about furniture, mattresses or household bulk, so it neither accepts nor refuses them; the town's bulky item pages are the place those are addressed.

• 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