How to get rid of a mattress in Denison, 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.

• The other half of Denison's alternating calendar, and the reason a mattress cannot simply be set out any month. 'The City of Denison collects brush and limbs at your curb 6 times per year. Collection occurs during the months of January, March, May, July, September and November. All brush and limbs must be placed in one manageable pile no larger than 4 feet by 4 feet by 5 feet.' Brush takes 'Tree limbs (6 feet or less preferable); Shrubbery; Bagged Leaves (biodegradable bags only)' and refuses 'Construction debris; Leaves in plastic bags; Bricks, rocks, dirt, etc.; Lawnmowers'. A mattress is not brush and the city is explicit that the two must not be mixed: 'Do not mix your bulk items with brush/limbs.' The set-out window is identical to bulk - no earlier than 7am Saturday before the collection week, at the curb by 6:30am on the Monday - and off-cycle brush collections carry the same $17.25 per cubic yard scheduled rate, $34.50 forced. In practice a Denison household with a mattress in an odd-numbered month has three options: hold it until the next even month, pay the special pick-up rate, or take it to the city's Residential Collection Station. Source Not confirmed: The city does not publish what happens if bulk is set out in a brush month - only that mixing the two piles is a citation risk
• Denison has no mattress recycling. The city's Solid Waste Department FAQ sets out the whole of its recycling: 'The City of Denison does provide a recycling service through a contract with Republic. Recycling is picked up every other week by Republic', and the acceptable materials are 'aluminum cans, cardboard, catalogs, glass bottles or jar, junk mail, magazines, newspaper, phone books, plastics #1-5 and #7, and steel/tin cans', with aluminum foil, batteries, hazardous waste, packing peanuts, Styrofoam, tissue paper, wax paper, plastic #6, window glass and fish tanks refused. On bulk the FAQ says only 'Larger items will be collected every other month under the new bulk collection. The size limit for bulk collection is two cubic yards. This is approximately the size of a refrigerator. Residents are encouraged to bring anything larger than two cubic yards to the residential collection station for a minimal fee.' There is no recycling route for a mattress in Denison, no mattress-specific recycler or collection site serving Grayson County was established, and Texas has no state mattress recycling program - the Mattress Recycling Council names California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island only. Source Not confirmed: The FAQ quotes a $15 per cubic yard special pickup rate for brush while the current Brush & Limb page quotes $17.25 plus tax; the FAQ is the older document
• Not an option: The nearest Habitat ReStore to Denison, ReStore Grayson at 3822 Frisco Road in Sherman (903.647.0133), refuses mattresses in writing. Its donate page lists 'Mattresses or bedding' among the items it cannot accept, along with water heaters, damaged or incomplete cabinets, broken or rusted appliances, clothing or shoes, pesticides and hazardous or toxic chemicals, and console televisions. It does accept 'Furniture - clean, undamaged couches, chairs, tables, lamps, bed frames, etc.', working electric appliances seven years old or less, hand and power tools, complete cabinets, unbroken windows and screens, and unopened paint. A Denison reader can donate the bed frame and will still need a disposal route for the mattress - in practice the city's own Residential Collection Station at 300 W FM 84. Source Not confirmed: Box springs are not separately named in the refusal, though 'bedding' is Not confirmed: The donate page publishes no opening hours

• 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