How to get rid of a mattress in Kilgore, 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.

• Not an option: City of Kilgore Brush Collection & Green Waste Center page. Curbside brush: 'The City of Kilgore provides a free curbside brush collection three times a year (February, July, & October),' worked during the first full week of the month in zone order yellow, red, green, blue; 'Brush needs to be placed at the curb side the weekend BEFORE a route begins,' and material not out by Sunday evening waits for the next cycle. Accepted: 'RESIDENTIAL BRUSH & LIMBS ONLY' — no leaves, grass clippings, pine straw, household garbage, furniture, carpet, lawn equipment, metal, appliances, construction materials, glass, concrete, lumber, cross ties, fence posts or other processed wood, and no commercially cleared lots. Limbs must be no larger than 6 inches in diameter and no longer than 6 feet, and a pile over 6 feet long by 6 feet wide by 6 feet high is too large. The Green Waste Center is at 2100 Longview St, open Friday, Saturday and Sunday, to Kilgore residents only, with free mulch available year round. This is the city's only drop-off site and it takes brush and green waste only: furniture, carpet and appliances are on the not-accepted list, so a mattress cannot be taken there or set out for the brush collection. Source Not confirmed: The page gives the Green Waste Center's opening hours as 'dusk till dawn', which is not a usable time of day; no clock hours are published. Not confirmed: Mattresses are not named on the not-accepted list; the exclusion is inferred from the named exclusion of furniture, carpet and household garbage and from 'RESIDENTIAL BRUSH & LIMBS ONLY'.
• Waste Connections' East Texas Regional Landfill page, the nearest operator-run landfill open to the public for Kilgore residents: address '5155 FM 2867 E, HENDERSON, TX 75654', hours '8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday – Saturday – Closed Sundays and all major holidays', serving 'commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers'. The accepted list is: normal household garbage, non-hazardous commercial waste, farm or agricultural waste, municipal solid waste, construction debris, concrete and asphalt, yard waste, tree branches, non-putrescible dry waste, clean fill soil, non-hazardous industrial waste, waste water treatment plant sludge, contaminated soil and treated lumber, plus tires, white goods (appliances) and batteries. No rate specific to this site is published: the rate tables carried on the page are headed for other Waste Connections facilities (Travis County, Cold Canyon, Potrero Hills), which is the templated rate card this project has refused elsewhere, and none of it is stated to apply in Henderson. Source Not confirmed: No gate rate, minimum charge or per-ton price is published for the Henderson site; the only rate tables on the page belong to other Waste Connections landfills in other counties and states. Not confirmed: Mattresses are not named either as accepted or as excluded. Not confirmed: Whether a household customer may self-haul without an account is not stated.
• Northeast Texas Habitat for Humanity, whose ReStore serves Gregg, Harrison and Upshur Counties and so covers Kilgore, publishes its donation terms: 'We accept items including new and used furniture, appliances and surplus building materials.' Drop-off is at the ReStore, 907 McCann Rd, Longview, TX 75601, 'Tuesday-Saturday, 9-4' for donations (the store's own hours are given as Tue–Sat 9:00–5:00), with free standard pick-up on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays arranged at 903-212-8453. 'Items must be in good working condition without excessive wear and tear. Please note: Habitat has the right to refuse any donations, due to condition, limited space or overstock of the item. Items must be easily accessible and already disassembled. Drivers do not carry tools.' Mattresses are not among the item types the affiliate says it accepts. Source Not confirmed: The affiliate publishes no mattress policy: mattresses are neither listed as accepted nor stated to be refused, so neither can be reported as its rule.
• No mattress-specific recycler, take-back or collection program was established for Kilgore. The Mattress Recycling Council's own site states that it is 'Operating Statewide in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island', so there is no state-run or industry-run mattress recycling program in Texas and no Bye Bye Mattress collection site to send a Kilgore resident to. The city's own pages name no mattress recycling option, and the city's only drop-off, the Green Waste Center, takes brush and green waste only. Source Not confirmed: This establishes the absence of a state or industry program, not the absence of any private dismantler in East Texas; no such facility with a published address and published terms was found, but the search was not exhaustive.

• 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