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

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 Friendswood and its neighbors.

• Galveston County's only curbside collection is a storm program, and its own notice makes both the trigger and the narrow scope explicit. Posted 07/12/2024 under the heading “FEMA Roadside Storm Debris Pick-Up Instructions”: “The Galveston County Road and Bridge Department is diligently working on cleanup efforts and the restoration of county services following Hurricane Beryl. A comprehensive plan is being developed to pick up vegetative storm debris from residential properties. We ask for your patience as county crews begin the roadside pick-up service, which is expected to take several weeks to complete. Please note that county crews will make only two passes on each road to remove debris.” The material collected is named as vegetative storm debris; the activation is a named hurricane; the collection is finite at two passes per road. It is not a bulky-waste service and a mattress is not vegetative debris. Source Not confirmed: The notice does not state which parts of the county the crews served, though Road and Bridge maintains county roads, which lie outside city limits.
• What a Galveston County resident outside a city may not do with a mattress is enforced by the Sheriff. “In January 2025 Sheriff Jimmy Fullen assumed administration of the Nuisance Abatement Program” and formed a Nuisance Abatement Division, which investigates, among other things, “keeping, storing, or accumulating refuse on premises in a neighborhood unless the refuse is entirely contained in a closed receptacle” and “keeping, storing, or accumulating rubbish, including newspapers, abandoned vehicles, refrigerators, stoves, furniture, tires, and cans, on premises in a neighborhood or within 300 feet of a public street for 10 days or more, unless the rubbish or object is completely enclosed in a building or is not visible from a public street”. Furniture left visible from the street for ten days is therefore a violation in its own right. “The Nuisance Abatement Team will respond to any unincorporated areas within Galveston County to investigate complaints”, and while the team “seeks to FOSTER COMPLIANCE”, “failed compliance leads to more punitive actions, which includes fines, and in certain cases the team will have the work done (Corrective Action) and levy a lien on the property” — “If the Sheriff's Office is ordered to abate the nuisance a lien will be placed against the property to include all costs associated with the cleanup.” Contact: Sheriff's Office, 601 54th Street, Galveston, TX 77551, (409) 766-2300. Source Not confirmed: No fine amount or schedule is published for a nuisance violation.
• Galveston County's mainland Heavy Trash Event is a free drive-in drop-off, announced in the county's own words as: “Galveston County is offering a FREE Heavy Trash Event on June 9th from 8 AM – 5 PM and June 10th from 8 AM – 11 AM. The event will take place at Bayshore Park located at 5437 FM 646, Bacliff, Texas 77518.” Items accepted: “Heavy Trash”, “Debris”, “Heavy Brush”, “Wood”, “Brush”, “Furniture”, “Passenger Tires”. Items not accepted: “Hazardous Materials”, “Paint”, “Electronic Waste”, “Automotive Fluids”, “Batteries”, “Commercial Tires”, “Household Trash”. The notice ends “NO COMMERCIAL LOADS WILL BE ACCEPTED” and points questions to the Galveston County Nuisance Abatement Office at 409-766-4509. The announcement was posted 05/09/2023, so those dates have passed; the pattern it establishes — a free weekend drop-off on the mainland at Bayshore Park, furniture accepted, household trash not — is what a resident should be watching for and phoning about. Source Not confirmed: A mattress is named on neither list. “Furniture” and “Heavy Trash” are accepted and nothing excludes bedding, but the county does not say a mattress qualifies, and this research does not assume it. Not confirmed: No eligibility rule beyond “no commercial loads” is published — no proof of residency, no per-household limit and no statement of whether city residents may attend. Not confirmed: The posted dates are from 2023; no 2026 mainland event date was found on a county page.
• The county runs the same free event on the Bolivar Peninsula, at its own Road and Bridge yard: “Galveston County is offering a FREE Heavy Trash Event in Crystal Beach on March 3rd from 8am – 5pm and March 4th from 8am – noon. The event will take place at 920 Noble Carl Dr., Crystal Beach, Texas.” Accepted: “Heavy Trash”, “Debris”, “Heavy Brush”, “Wood”, “Brush”, “Furniture”. Not accepted: “Hazardous Materials”, “Paint”, “Electronic Waste”, “Automotive Fluids”, “Batteries”, “Commercial Tires”, “Household Trash”. “For additional information about this event or the items accepted, please contact the Galveston County Nuisance Abatement Office at 409-766-4509.” Posted 01/05/2023. Taken with the mainland event at Bayshore Park, the county's answer to heavy items is two free weekends a year at two fixed places, announced a few weeks ahead — not a service that can be called on the week a bed is replaced. Source Not confirmed: Mattresses are named on neither the accepted nor the excluded list for this event either. Not confirmed: The posted dates are from 2023 and the notice does not say the event recurs annually.
• Galveston County runs no landfill, no transfer station and no curbside collection of its own. What it runs instead is a Nuisance Abatement program at 823 Grand Ave, Bacliff, TX 77518, and that program's stated remit is the unincorporated county, not the cities. Its mission is “To provide a comprehensive and innovative program to prevent urban blight and decay through education, enforcement and special programs designed to enhance the unincorporated areas of Galveston County”, and its description of services says the program “was created to enforce Chap 343 of the Texas Health Code and numerous other health related statutes and regulations in the unincorporated areas of Galveston County”. Under “Provide special projects to support the eradication of slum and blight in our community” the page lists four: “Heavy Trash Events”, “Waste Tire Disposal”, “Vessel Turn In Program” and “Other projects based upon need and funding”. So the county's free heavy trash days are not a standing service but special projects of an unincorporated-area program, run “based upon need and funding”. Source Not confirmed: The page states the program's remit is the unincorporated areas but does not say in terms that residents of incorporated cities such as Texas City, Friendswood, Dickinson or La Marque may not bring items to a Heavy Trash Event; the event notices themselves exclude only commercial loads.
• Not an option: The one transfer station in Galveston County that publishes household terms is not the county's and is not open to the county. The City of Galveston's transfer station at 5515 Harborside Drive, Galveston, TX 77554 is open Monday–Friday 7:00 AM to 4:45 PM and Saturday 7:00 AM to 11:45 AM, and the city's rule is that “Galveston residents may make one trip per month and leave up to 1,000 pounds of material at the station”, on production of a current water bill and proper identification. It takes building materials, roofing materials and items too large for a garbage cart; it refuses combustible materials, compressed aerosol cans unless empty, concrete, Freon, gasoline, kerosene, paint and tires. A resident of Texas City, Friendswood, Dickinson, La Marque or unincorporated Galveston County holds no City of Galveston water bill and so cannot use it. That is the practical shape of the county: the island has a drop-off, the mainland does not. Source Not confirmed: Mattresses appear on neither the accepted nor the refused list for the transfer station, so even for a City of Galveston resident the station's mattress policy is not published. Not confirmed: No fee is published for material beyond the free 1,000 lb monthly allowance.