How to get rid of a mattress in McGregor, 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.

• Waste Connections of Texas service guide for McGregor customers, published by the City of McGregor on its Citizen Information page, which names Waste Connections as the city's contracted hauler and is the hauler's own written statement of what the curbside cart service does and does not take. The office is 'WC of Texas, 1910 S. Main ST, McGregor, TX 76657, (800)-350-3024 or (254)-840-4060'. 'Please have your trash out the night before your service day and set your trash out within 2-3 feet from the road.' The items that 'will NOT be collected and are illegal to dump in landfills' are oil, paint, chemicals, tires, lead acid batteries, TVs and monitors, AC units and refrigerators. On large items the guide says only: 'All items for collection are requested to be in bags and placed in the provided cart with the lid closed. If you need additional carts or need large items or excessive quantities collected, please call customer service to make arrangements. There may be additional charges for this service.' Service runs one day late after Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Independence Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day when those fall on a weekday. Uncollected trash should be reported within 24 hours. Source Not confirmed: The guide says 'There may be additional charges for this service' for a large item but publishes no amount, so no price is recorded and no curbside bulky service is listed. Not confirmed: The guide names no mattress or box spring, either as collectable at the curb or as excluded. Not confirmed: The guide publishes no free bulky allowance, no notice period and no booking form, only a telephone number.
• City of McGregor Code of Ordinances Chapter 48, Solid Waste (current through Mar 17, 2025), whose collection section is unusually generous about furniture. Section 48-25(1), Residential: 'Residential collection shall be provided twice per week and shall include all household trash, bundles brush and white goods such as stoves, furniture and refrigerators.' Section 48-23 requires a portable garbage can of 20 to 32 gallons with a tight-fitting cover, or plastic bags of at least two-mil thickness, for garbage, and requires trash and trash to be placed 'in boxes, sacks, barrels or other receptacles of reasonable size, provided that the gross weight does not exceed 50 pounds'; receptacles go inside the property line at the edge of the alley where an alley is accessible, or 'inside the curbline of the street, on the day of collection only' where there is none. Section 48-1 defines 'rubbish' narrowly as 'tin cans, bottles, glass, scraps of iron, tin, wire or any other metals' and 'trash' as 'paper of all kinds, rags, old clothing, paper containers, old rubber, pieces of wood, boxes, barrels, crates, feathers, weeds, grass and tree limbs'. Section 48-28(b), Heavy or bulky items, puts a defined set of heavy materials on the owner: 'Accumulations of items such as brick, broken concrete, lumber, ashes, dirt and plaster, sand or gravel, automobile frames and parts, dead trees and other bulky, heavy material shall be disposed of at the expense of the owner or person controlling same under the direction of the building official' — a list of construction and yard debris that does not include furniture or a mattress. Section 48-28(a) prohibits collecting garbage, trash, trash or junk within the city without authority from the city. Section 48-26 says the sanitation department will not collect material that is not prepared and placed as the article requires, and 48-27 prohibits meddling with or scattering the contents of receptacles. Article III makes brush pickup a separate paid subscription: a residential water customer pays a monthly subscription fee set in the city fee schedule (48-79), existing customers may sign up in January or February without the one-time administrative fee, and a non-subscriber is charged 'at the hourly rate set forth in the city fee schedule, with a minimum charge for one hour' after applying in person at city hall and paying a deposit (48-104, 48-105). Source Not confirmed: Section 48-25(1) names furniture in what residential collection includes but does not name a mattress or box spring, and the hauler's own McGregor guide does not repeat the code's furniture wording. Not confirmed: The amounts in the city fee schedule for trash collection, the brush subscription, the administrative fee and the non-subscriber hourly rate were not read: the code's Appendix A fee schedule did not load from Municode. Not confirmed: The chapter sets no set-out window in hours and no wrapping requirement for a bulky item.
• City of McGregor Code of Ordinances Sec. 1-12, the general penalty that applies to the solid waste chapter and to illegal dumping, since Chapter 48 sets no penalty of its own. Where an act is made unlawful and 'no specific penalty is provided therefor', the violation shall be punished by '(1) A fine not to exceed $2,000.00 in all cases arising under municipal ordinances that govern fire safety, zoning, and public health and sanitation other than vegetation and litter violations; (2) A fine not to exceed $2,000.00, if a motor vehicle is used in illegal dumping or an offense under the law or city ordinance violated by the illegal dumping; and (3) A fine not to exceed $500.00 in all other cases; provided, however, that no penalty shall be greater or less than the penalty provided for the same or a similar offense under the laws of the state.' Subsection (b) adds that 'Each day any violation of this Code or of any ordinance shall continue shall constitute a separate offense', and that a violation designated a nuisance 'may be summarily abated by the city manager or the chief of police or their assigns'. Driving a mattress out to a roadside rather than to the first-Saturday drop-off therefore exposes a McGregor resident to a fine of up to $2,000 per day, because a vehicle was used. Source Not confirmed: Sec. 1-12 is a general penalty and does not itself define illegal dumping; the city's nuisance and environment chapters were not read.
• Not an option: Waco Habitat for Humanity ReStore, 1224 Franklin Ave, Waco, TX 76701 (254-756-0131), the nearest Habitat ReStore to McGregor, re-checked for a mattress. Its Donation Acceptance Guidelines accept appliances, cabinets and countertops, furniture, building materials, fixtures, hardware and tools and home décor, and explicitly refuse 'Mattresses and box springs', along with 'Damaged, stained, torn, or heavily worn upholstered furniture', TVs, computers, baby equipment, clothing and hazardous materials. A McGregor resident should not drive a mattress into Waco for the ReStore. Source Not confirmed: The guidelines page does not publish the ReStore's opening hours. Not confirmed: No charity or thrift shop inside McGregor itself publishes a donation policy, so none was found to check.

• 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