How to get rid of a mattress in Burleson, TX.

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.

• Burleson's Chapter 82 Article III sets the rules a resident setting a mattress out is governed by. The set-out window is in 82-83(b)(2): 'Residential refuse and recyclables shall be placed at the curb no earlier than 7:00 p.m. on the day prior to the scheduled collection day. To ensure collection, residential refuse and recyclables should be placed at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on the day of collection.' Retrieval is also mandatory - 82-83(b)(4) requires containers and 'any unaccepted waste' to be removed 'no later than 8:00 a.m. on the day following the scheduled collection day' - and 82-83(e) forbids leaving garbage at the curb 'for a period longer than 12 hours prior to the start of solid waste operations on the next collection date, regardless of the reason'. The code's definition of BULKY ITEMS is 'Furniture, freezers, refrigerators, stoves, water heaters, air conditioning units, heating units and any other appliances or other items of like kind or size', and LARGE VOLUME BULKY ITEMS AND BUNDLES means 'A cumulative volume of bulky items and/or brush per set out exceeding three cubic yards' - the three-yard line the weekly-versus-monthly split turns on. Section 82-89(a) limits eligibility: 'Brush and bulky item collection service will be provided by the city's contracted waste collection service only to persons receiving residential unit garbage collection from the city. Non-residential and commercial properties will not receive this service.' Section 82-89(d)(4) exempts large items from the weight limit: 'With the exception of furniture, appliances and other household items that cannot be easily broken down or dismantled, any trash bag, container, bundle or other item placed for disposal shall not bear a weight in excess of 35 pounds.' Section 82-89(e) lists what will not be collected at all, including construction and remodelling debris, clearing-operation waste, bulky items from non-residential premises, household hazardous waste, and CFC appliances without proof of refrigerant removal. Landlords get their own rule in 82-90: an owner of unoccupied residential rental property 'must dispose of the trash via a certified waste handler or by disposing at a certified landfill', failing which 'the trash is a nuisance'. Source Not confirmed: The ordinance's BULKY ITEMS definition does not name mattresses, although the city's own bulk and brush webpage does; the code covers them only via 'other items of like kind or size' Not confirmed: Section 82-92 sets fees 'by separate ordinance' and the rate schedule itself was not retrieved, so no bulky-item fee or monthly solid waste rate is confirmed Not confirmed: No penalty amount for a set-out or curb-retrieval violation is published in Article III
• Burleson runs no drop-off site, landfill or transfer station of its own, and its Solid Waste FAQ answers the question 'Where is the nearest landfill?' by naming three facilities with the warning 'NOTE: Fees may apply': Southeast Landfill, 898 N. Dick Price Road, Kennedale TX, 817-478-6462; City of Cleburne Transfer Station, 2625 Pipeline Road, Cleburne TX, 817-641-2236; and Turkey Creek Landfill, 9100 South I-35W, Alvarado TX, 817-790-0311. None of the three is a Burleson city facility and the city publishes no rate for any of them. The city's only free drop-off is for household hazardous waste - an annual event at the City Service Center, and year-round at Fort Worth's Environmental Collection Center, 6400 Bridge St, Thursday and Friday 11am-7pm and Saturday 9am-3pm, where 'There is no fee, however, residents must take a City of Burleson water or solid waste bill as proof of residency'. Neither accepts mattresses. Source Not confirmed: The city publishes no rate, no hours and no mattress policy for any of the three landfills or transfer stations it names, so none of them can be listed with published terms Not confirmed: Whether Burleson residents get any discount or resident rate at the Cleburne transfer station or either landfill is not stated
• Burleson has no mattress recycling and, unusually, the city page effectively concedes it: the words 'Mattresses (find out other options for your unwanted mattress)' on the Bulk and Brush Pickup page link not to a local recycler or program but to a general consumer-advice article on a national website. The city's own recycling goes to a materials recovery facility for containers and paper - the Solid Waste FAQ says 'recycling is taken to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Forth Worth, where items are sorted by type and prepared for recycling' - which does not take mattresses. No dedicated mattress recycler, manufacturer take-back or collection site serving Burleson was established, and Texas has no state mattress recycling program: the Mattress Recycling Council names only 'California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island'. Source Not confirmed: No local reuse or donation outlet in Burleson was established with a published mattress policy; the nearest charities with published mattress policies are in other counties

• Current homepage says drop-off is coming soon, whereas existing MRC card 42 lists commercial drop-off at 1915 Kramer Ln and open 24 hours. Do not rely on that old drop-off listing as current. Homepage offers indoor/curb pickup and states reuse, then recycling, then landfill as its routing preference. Source
• Operator lists Austin yard at 6546 Burnet Road, Austin TX 78757 and Manor yard at 20301 Hog Eye Rd, Manor TX 78653. Earlier national65 Duke’s listing uses 1602 Bench Mark Dr.; no move or branch-equivalence statement found. Preserve all addresses separately. Source
• No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on TCEQ pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source
• TCEQ's Take Care of Texas (Mar 4, 2025) notes many mattress retailers offer pickup of old mattresses on new-mattress delivery, organizations such as Salvation Army and Habitat for Humanity may accept good-condition mattresses, and many cities/haulers offer bulk pickup or collection events. Source