How to get rid of a mattress in Freeport, 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.

• Freeport's own ordinance, Chapter 40 of the Code of Ordinances (version dated March 10, 2026), sets rules that no other city in this group publishes in this detail, and they bite. Sec. 40-23(c): a container “may not be placed in the easement or right-of-way of the designated street or alley before 6:00 p.m. of the day preceding the day designated by the city or its contractor as the day on which garbage shall be collected and all such containers must be removed from such easement or right-of-way no later than 8:00 a.m. of the day following such designated day.” Sec. 40-23(d)(5): “No more than two cubic yards of debris of any kind may be placed at the street. If more than two cubic yards is placed at the street, the resident will be charged for the excess on the water bill at the rate per yard defined by the city's contract with waste connections. Any debris of any kind placed at the street between Wednesday and Friday will be picked up and the water account for the property from which it is removed will be billed 100 percent of the cost of the removal at the rate defined by the contract with waste connections.” Further rules: “Refuse, rubbish, trash and untreated wood may not be placed in the easement or right-of-way of any street”; “All untreated wood products must be cut into pieces of not more than five feet in length”; “Only waste connections polycarts may be used”; polycarts need “a three-foot clearance on all sides”; “Tree limbs and debris must be cut to five-foot lengths”; “Stumps and bagged debris must weigh less than 50 pounds.” Sec. 40-23(a) makes enforcement easy for the city: proof that solid waste was placed in violation “shall be prima facie proof that the same was so placed or maintained by the owner or occupant” of the premises or of the premises immediately adjacent. And Sec. 40-23(d)(8): “Property owners are responsible for any outstanding balance for all charges on a water account for their property, whether such account is in the owner's name or the name of a tenant or lessee. No water account will be opened at that property until such balance is paid in full.” Sec. 40-21 makes it “unlawful for any person to convey for hire over any public street or alley in the city any solid waste generated on any premises not owned or occupied by such person”, and Sec. 40-25 leaves the collection rate to the master fee schedule. Source Not confirmed: The code does not name mattresses; a mattress falls under the general term “debris of any kind” in Sec. 40-23(d)(5). Not confirmed: The per-yard excess rate and the removal rate are defined only by reference to the city's contract with Waste Connections, which the code does not print; the master fee schedule was not read. Not confirmed: The two cubic yard limit in the code and the five cubic yard limit on the city's bulk waste flyer are not reconciled anywhere the city publishes.

• 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