How to get rid of a mattress in Galena Park, 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 Galena Park and its neighbors.

• There is exactly one public depository in unincorporated Harris County that names mattresses in writing as accepted, and it is open only to the residents of one management district. The East Aldine Neighborhood Depository & Recycling Center at 2789 Hopper Rd., Houston, TX 77093 lists under "Acceptable Items: YES!" the line "JUNK WASTE (furniture, mattresses, wooden fencing – must be broken down, loose drywall and shingles must be bagged)", alongside appliances including refrigerators and freezers, tree waste, up to four passenger tires a month, glass and curbside recyclables. Its own words on who may use it: "SMC Management, on behalf of The East Aldine Management District operates the Neighborhood Depository & Recycling Center to provide residents of East Aldine a convenient opportunity to dispose of junk, tree waste, and recyclable materials. Residents of East Aldine may use the Neighborhood Depository and Recycling Center up to two (2) times per month." And: "CONTRACTORS AND OTHER BUSINESSES ARE PROHIBITED FROM USING THE FACILITY." Proof is checked at the gate — "Residents must prove residency in East Aldine District by showing: A photo ID (current Texas Driver License, Texas Department of Public Safety issued ID card, Texas License to Carry card or Harris County Public Library ID card), AND A utility bill (Light, Water, Gas / no more than three (3) months old) with matching address and name." It runs by appointment, "Accepting appointments: Tuesday-Saturday from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Closed Sunday and Monday", and "ONLY SCHEDULED APPOINTMENTS WILL BE ALLOWED IN THE LINE." Vehicle limits are real: "No vehicles larger than one (1) ton are acceptable. ABSOLUTELY NO DIESELS!", no trailers over sixteen feet, no lifts or hydraulic equipment, and unloading "should take no longer than 20 minutes" and is the resident's own job. No fee is published anywhere on the page. Telephone 713.454.7185. East Aldine is an unincorporated district north-east of Loop 610, so this is not an option for anyone in the county's incorporated cities, and no service is cataloged from it — but it is the clearest published proof in Harris County that a depository will take a mattress, and it is the model the county's incorporated neighbors do not have. Source Not confirmed: No fee is stated on the page for any material, including mattresses; the page's silence is not a statement that use is free. Not confirmed: The district publishes no boundary description or address-checker on this page, so which unincorporated streets qualify as "East Aldine" is not established here. Not confirmed: The page does not say whether mattresses left here are recycled or landfilled.
• Harris County's real mattress answer is not a county facility at all: it is a charity-run mattress recycling plant on the south side of Houston that takes any mattress from anyone for a flat $25, and recycles what it cannot rehome. The Furniture Bank's mattress recycling page publishes the terms as "In-Person Drop Off: $25/piece helps us cover the cost of recycling", at "Location: 8220 Mosley Rd., Houston, TX 77075", "Hours: 9 am – 5 pm, Tuesday – Saturday". What happens to the mattress is stated, which is rare and is the whole point of the place: "mattresses that are in great condition are actually given away to families in need once they are sanitized and cleaned ... Not only that, but everything else that can't be salvaged is recycled", and "those who donate their mattresses at The Furniture Bank can rest assured that any mattress donated to The Furniture Bank will either be recycled or given to a family in need." The scale is published too — "we are recycling over 2,000 mattresses each month at our facility", "recycling over 100,000 mattresses to date", and the program was founded in 2012 after training by the St Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County, Oregon. Two published conditions apply: "Foundations/box springs are considered a separate piece", so a mattress-and-box-spring pair is $50, not $25; and "Please note that we cannot accept mattresses that have been wet or exposed to pests". Nothing on the page confines the service to City of Houston residents, to donors from any particular city, or to Harris County at all — it is a drop-off counter with a published price and published hours, which is why this batch extends its coverage to the whole county. The same page confirms the arrangement behind Houston's curbside depositories: "Drop off your mattress at any of the City of Houston's Neighborhood Depositories. These mattresses will be brought to The Furniture Bank for recycling", and "Since 2012, all mattresses dropped off at these locations have been brought to The Furniture Bank for recycling." That is worth knowing for a reader outside the city limits, because it explains why the free city depository route is closed to them and the $25 counter is not. Texas has no statewide mattress recycling program to fall back on — the Mattress Recycling Council operates only in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island — so this is the only published mattress-recycling outcome in Harris County. Source Not confirmed: This page gives the Mosley Road hours as "9 am – 5 pm, Tuesday – Saturday" while the charity's own donate-items page gives "Assistance on site: Monday–Friday, 10 am–3 pm". The two statements are from the same organization and are not reconciled anywhere it publishes; call or text 713-232-9665 before traveling. Not confirmed: The page states no residency requirement either way. The absence of a restriction is recorded as an absence, not as a published permission. Not confirmed: The page does not say what share of a recycled mattress is diverted, nor where the residual goes.
• Houston Habitat for Humanity's ReStore, the obvious charity a Harris County reader would try next, does not take mattresses — and the way its guidelines are written makes that clear enough to save the trip. The ReStore at 6161 S. Loop East, Houston, TX 77087 (713-643-1100, Monday–Saturday 9 am–5 pm, closed Sunday) publishes its acceptance guidelines as twenty expandable categories: appliances, cabinets, doors, electrical, fans, flooring materials, furniture, rugs, hardware, lighting, lumber/plywood/sheetrock/trim, mirror & glass, paint and wall-coverings, pipe, plumbing and toilets, roofing, tools, windows, electronics, and materials from demolition. Mattresses appear in none of them. The furniture category, opened in full, reads: "All furniture should be cleaned before pickup and free of any pet hair, stains, tears or other damage. Full Beds are accepted. Must include headboard, footboard, and side rails." That is a bed frame, not a bed: the only bedroom item the ReStore names is the wooden part, and it must arrive complete. The general standard on the same page — donations free of "pet hair, stains, tears or other damage" — is one very few used mattresses would pass in any event. A reader in Baytown, Katy or Tomball should treat the ReStore as a place for the frame and The Furniture Bank as the place for the mattress. Source Not confirmed: The ReStore's guidelines never name mattresses, box springs or bedding in either the accepted or the not-accepted column. Their absence from all twenty categories is recorded as an absence; the page publishes no explicit mattress refusal. Not confirmed: Houston Habitat publishes one ReStore location on this page; whether it operates other Harris County outlets is not established here.
• Not an option: Harris County's only permanent waste facility refuses mattresses in writing. The Harris County Household Hazardous Waste Facility at 6900 Hahl Road, Houston, TX 77040 ("Enter at Hahl Road (At 290 and Gessner)") publishes a two-column accepted/not-accepted list, and the last line of the not-accepted column reads: "Heavy trash (including furniture, woody debris, construction debris) or household trash." The FAQ repeats it: "We also do not accept ... household appliances, furniture, and household trash." A mattress is heavy trash and is not going to be taken here, whatever else the site's name suggests to somebody searching for a county dump. Two further facts are worth knowing before anyone drives out. The facility is not open to everyone in the county: under the heading "Who may use this facility" it says "The residents of Harris County who live outside of the incorporated City of Houston jurisdiction. These are residents who do not receive City of Houston services (water, trash, and recycling) or pay City of Houston taxes. We can only accept items that were used in a resident's home for personal use." And it takes nobody without a booking: "This facility is open by appointment only — You Must Make an Appointment to Bring Items to This Facility!", with appointment slots "Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9 am – 3 pm" and "2nd and 4th Saturdays from 9 am - 2 pm". Its FAQ states "There is no charge for our services", and it is "closed the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's". What it does take is paint, household cleaners, yard and automotive products, pool chemicals, aerosols other than Freon and mace, gasoline to a 20-gallon limit, fats/oils/greases, batteries, mercury items, fluorescent and LED bulbs, fire extinguishers, BBQ-sized propane cylinders, and "Tires (max limit 4 per household each month)". Note the residency wording carefully: it excludes City of Houston residents rather than residents of the county's other incorporated cities, which is the reverse of the usual pattern and is the county's own phrasing, not ours. Even so, no mattress qualifies under it, so for a mattress this facility is a dead end for every resident of the county alike. Contact: 346-286-4299 (English), 346-286-4296 (Spanish), HHW@harriscountytx.gov. Source Not confirmed: The county does not say whether a resident of Baytown, Katy, Tomball or any other incorporated city in the county other than Houston counts as eligible; the published rule names only the City of Houston exclusion. Since mattresses are refused outright the question does not change the answer here, but it is not established.
• Harris County itself collects nothing from anybody's curb. The county government's own household hazardous waste FAQ — run by the Office of the County Engineer, the county department that owns waste for unincorporated Harris County — answers the question for us twice, in the county's own words. Asked "Where do I take my recyclables (paper, cans, glass, etc.)?", the county replies: "You can go to Earth911, or Recycle Info for information on recycling. These services are usually provided to residents of unincorporated Harris County by the HOA or water provider. Please contact them to see if you have door to door recycling services." Asked "What if I have shingles, wood, tiles, or other construction debris?", it replies: "We do not accept these items. If the items are in good condition, please call the City of Houston ReUse Warehouse at 281.814.3324. If they are not reusable, contact your closest landfill for information. If you live in Precincts 1, 2 or 4, they have a heavy trash location their residents may use. You can go to their websites for that information." Two things follow for a reader with a mattress. First, in unincorporated Harris County the entity that picks up your trash is your MUD, water district or HOA and the private hauler it contracts, not Harris County — so whether a mattress is collected, how often, and at what price is a question for that district, and the county does not answer it. Second, the county's fallback for heavy items is not a county program but "a heavy trash location their residents may use" run by an individual commissioner's precinct — which is to say a precinct facility for that precinct's residents, not a county-wide service. The Office of the County Engineer's own Services index lists exactly one waste service among its seventeen entries, "Household Hazardous Waste"; there is no county landfill, no county transfer station, no county convenience center and no county bulky-waste collection on it. Harris County Pollution Control Services, the other county department with "solid waste" in its remit, describes its job as "Investigating complaints related to solid waste" such as "illegal dumping/improper waste disposal" and "Conducting routine inspections" of "landfills, mulch facilities, recycling facilities, and transfer stations" — it regulates disposal sites, it does not run one. That matters most for the nineteen incorporated cities in this county — Baytown, Missouri City, Friendswood, La Porte, Deer Park, Humble, Katy, Seabrook, Webster, Jacinto City, Galena Park, South Houston, Tomball, Bellaire, West University Place, Hedwig Village, Piney Point Village, Jersey Village and Hunters Creek Village — because there is no county-run drop-off or collection for their residents to fall back on. What their residents get is whatever their own city runs, plus the private and charitable options anyone can pay to use. Source Not confirmed: Harris County publishes no single page stating in so many words that the county provides no residential solid waste collection; this finding is assembled from what the county's own waste pages say and from the absence of any such program across the Office of the County Engineer's Services index, Pollution Control Services and the four precinct sites. It is a reading of the county's own pages, not a quoted county sentence. Not confirmed: The county does not publish a directory of which MUD, water district or HOA serves which unincorporated subdivision, nor any of their haulers' mattress rules or prices.
• Harris County Precinct 2 runs the nearest thing this county has to a public heavy-trash drop-off, one Saturday a month, at two of its own road maintenance camps. Commissioner Precinct 2's Keep2Clean page publishes it as: "Use heavy trash drop-off events — Need to get rid of bulky items? Precinct 2 offers safe, convenient drop-off locations. 3rd Saturday each month (except December), 8 AM - 1 PM", at "Hardy/Aldine Maintenance Cam, 11801 West Hardy Rd., Houston, TX 77076" and "Wade Rd. Maintenance Camp, 8103 Wade Rd., Baytown, TX 77521". The precinct lists the 2026 dates individually: January 17, February 21, March 21, April 18, May 16, June 20, July 18, August 15, September 19, October 17 and November 21, with "December Closed". Precinct 2's own illegal-dumping page names the same two sites: "Precinct 2 also offers a heavy trash day service at Hardy Aldine Camp and Wade Camp every 3rd Saturday of the month for proper waste disposal." The precinct publishes no eligibility rule, no ID requirement, no accepted-items list and no fee on either page, and it is not a county-wide service in any case — Harris County's own household hazardous waste FAQ describes these precinct sites as "a heavy trash location their residents may use", meaning the residents of that precinct. Harris County's agency account has separately described this same program as being "at NO COST to unincorporated Harris County residents" with "ID is required" (recorded separately as a lead). Because the only published statement of who may use it restricts it to unincorporated county residents, no drop-off service is cataloged from this for any incorporated city in Harris County: Baytown sits beside the Wade Road camp and still has no published entitlement to use it. Anyone in unincorporated Precinct 2 should call the precinct at (713) 274-2222 before driving out, because whether a mattress specifically is taken is nowhere published. Source Not confirmed: Precinct 2's own pages publish no eligibility rule, no proof-of-residence requirement, no fee and no list of accepted or prohibited items. Mattress acceptance at these two sites is therefore not established from a precinct page. Not confirmed: The Keep2Clean page's address for the north site, 11801 West Hardy Rd., differs from the 11901 West Hardy Road given in Harris County's own 2022 agency post for what appears to be the same camp. The live precinct page is the later statement and is what is recorded here. Not confirmed: The precinct's page links to no flyer; the agency post that mentions one ("For items ACCEPTED and items NOT ACCEPTED, Please see flyer") does not reproduce it.
• Harris County Precinct 4 keeps two public dumpsters open six days a week, and they are the only county-side facility in this county a resident can turn up at without an appointment — but they are built for yard and fence debris, not for household bulk, and a mattress is not on the list either way. The precinct's page says: "Harris County Precinct 4 and Commissioner Lesley Briones provide public dumpster locations in Hockley and Tomball for your convenience. These dumpsters are perfect for getting rid of shrubs, branches, old deck boards, lumber from fence replacements, and all sorts of miscellaneous items cluttering up your space. Plus, they're ideal for storm debris cleanup." The sites are "HOCKLEY: 28511 Old Washington Rd., Hockley, TX 77447 - (Monday - Saturday | 7 a.m. - 3 p.m.)" and "TOMBALL: Service Center Rd., Tomball, TX 77377 - (Monday - Saturday | 7 a.m. - 3 p.m.)", phone 832-927-4444. The published rules are restrictive and worth reading before loading a truck: "Homeowners Only: This service is exclusively for homeowners, not contractors or commercial entities"; "No commercial vehicles or box trucks/trailers are permitted"; "Please refrain from disposing of tires, batteries, motor oil, paint cans (including spray paint cans), chemicals, or household garbage"; "Items such as roofing materials, wood, shingles, sheetrock, carpet, carpet padding, siding, laminate flooring, toilets, tubs, etc., are not accepted"; "Concrete, brick, grass clippings, bagged leaves, pine straw, mulch, and dirt should not be brought to the dumpsters"; "Large items like swing sets or camper covers must be dismantled before disposal"; "Tree limbs must be less than 6 inches in diameter and no longer than 6 feet in length"; and "Each homeowner is limited to ONE LOAD per day to ensure fair access for all constituents." No fee appears anywhere on the page. Mattresses are named in neither the accepted nor the prohibited list. Given that the prohibited list already excludes carpet, carpet padding, toilets and tubs — the nearest analogues to household bulk on it — and that the county's own FAQ describes precinct heavy trash locations as being for "their residents", nobody should drive to Hockley or Tomball with a mattress on the strength of "all sorts of miscellaneous items". No service is cataloged from this page. Source Not confirmed: The page never names mattresses, box springs or furniture in either list, so mattress acceptance at the Hockley and Tomball dumpsters is not established. Not confirmed: The page states no residency rule beyond "Homeowners Only" and the word "constituents", and does not say whether a homeowner in an incorporated city inside Precinct 4 — Tomball, Jersey Village, Katy, Bellaire, West University Place, Hedwig Village, Piney Point Village or Hunters Creek Village — may use them. Not confirmed: The Tomball location is published without a street number, as "Service Center Rd., Tomball, TX 77377". Not confirmed: No fee is published; an unpublished fee is not a free one.
• With no county tip to send anyone to, the self-haul alternatives in Harris County are private, and almost none of them publishes a mattress price. The clearest published rate card found in the county belongs to Gainsborough Waste, whose "Dump Site" page states: "Our facilities are open to a wide variety of commercial and residential customers" including homeowners, contractors and landscapers, with no special license required, and "We charge $15 per cubic yard. Roofing materials will be charged a higher price." Its two sites are 950 McCarty St., Houston, TX 77029, open "Monday – Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday: 7:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.", and 5200 Egbert St., Houston, TX 77007, open "Monday – Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m." and closed Saturdays. The page does not name mattresses in any list, so no mattress service is cataloged from it; a standard queen mattress is roughly two cubic yards loose, which would suggest a figure, but the operator has not published one and this batch does not invent it. The large landfills serving the county — Republic Services' McCarty Road Landfill on Oates Road and the WM sites around the metro — publish no residential mattress rate on their own pages at all. Harris County's Pollution Control Services department maintains landfill and waste-site maps for the county, but their published purpose is regulatory: its solid waste section describes its work as "Investigating complaints related to solid waste" and "Conducting routine inspections" of "landfills, mulch facilities, recycling facilities, and transfer stations". For a reader in an incorporated Harris County city with no city program, the honest ranking is therefore: a city drop-off if their own city runs one, then The Furniture Bank at $25 a piece with a stated recycling outcome, then a private tip at a per-yard rate they will have to ask for. Source Not confirmed: Gainsborough Waste does not name mattresses in an accepted or prohibited list, and publishes no per-item price for one. The $15 per cubic yard rate is recorded as the site's published rate, not as a mattress price. Not confirmed: No landfill or transfer station in Harris County was found publishing a per-mattress fee on its own pages. Not confirmed: Whether either Gainsborough site requires proof of residency, or accepts cash, is not published.