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

• The county's own English brochure, “Hidalgo County Solid Waste Disposal Program” (dated 08-22-19), is the only document that lists all thirteen stations in one place, and it names a mattress in plain sight: under ACCEPTED ITEMS, “Bulky Items: Tanks, mattresses, chairs, furniture, electronics and couches”. It also confirms the gate: “QUALIFIED RESIDENTS — Only Hidalgo County rural and unincorporated residents will qualify for a permit.” The permit tariff it publishes runs longer than the 90-day figure quoted elsewhere: “Amount $25 / $50 / $75 / $100, Duration 90 Days / 180 Days / 270 Days / 365 Days”, and “You will have access to any of the thirteen (13) Collection Stations located countywide” on one sticker, “not transferable and limited to one (1) vehicle”, “adhered on the upper left corner inside the vehicle windshield”. To buy one you must “Fill out an application”, “Provide proof of Hidalgo County rural residency (current water bill or water company receipt)”, provide photo ID matching that bill, and give “the year, make, model, color and license plate number of the vehicle”. The thirteen stations, as the brochure lists them with its own hours: 1. Mile 4 1/2 North East of FM 493, Donna — Monday-Friday 7:00 am-5:00 pm, Saturday 7:00 am-1:00 pm. 2. Mile 5 1/2 West Road & Mile 21 North, Monte Alto — same hours, BRUSH ACCEPTED. 3. Mile 1 East and 6 North, Mercedes — same hours. 4. Mile 11 North and Mile 1 1/2 West, Weslaco — same hours. 5. FM 493 & 4th St., Hargill — same hours. 6. One Mile East of South Tower Rd./Corner of Border Rd. & El Gato Rd., Alamo — same hours. 7. Mile 7 (Hwy 107) & Salida del Sol Rd., Penitas — Monday-Friday 8:00 am-4:45 pm, Saturday 8:00 am-12:00 pm. 8. 6 3/4 Mile North or 1/4 Mile South Hwy. 107 Los Ebanos Rd., Alton — same. 9. Corner of Military Rd. and FM 886, Sullivan — same. 10. Landfill — Military Rd. 0.5 Mile West of FM 1427, Penitas — Monday-Friday 8:00 am-4:00 pm, Saturday 7:00 am-3:00 pm, BRUSH ACCEPTED. 11. M. Road Recovery Center, 1124 N. “M” Road, Edinburg — Monday-Friday 7:30 am-6:00 pm, Saturday 8:00 am-12:00 pm. 12. Northwest corner of Davis and Terry Rd., Edinburg — BRUSH SITE ONLY, Monday-Friday 7:30 am-6:00 pm, Saturday 8:00 am-12:00 pm. 13. Linn San Manuel Recovery Center, 0.25 Mile East of Hwy 281 on SH 186, Linn — Tuesday & Thursday 7:30 am-6:00 pm, Saturday 8:00 am-12:00 pm. Site 12 is brush only and will not take a mattress. NON ACCEPTED ITEMS are “Commercial, Construction Waste: building material, brick, concrete, shingles, wood, gypsum, and sheet rock. Must be taken to nearest landfill”, automotive parts “car batteries, fenders, vehicle doors, body and frame parts, engines, transmissions, canoes, boats and commercial truck/tractor tires”, and hazardous waste. Allowable vehicles are “Passenger cars, Station wagons, Sport utilities vehicles, Residential vans, Pick-up Trucks, Small single axle utility trailers”; large commercial trucks, dump trucks, tractors pulling trailers and double axle trailers are not. Precinct offices sell the permits: Precinct 1, 1902 Joe Stephens Ave. Ste. 101, Weslaco 78599, (956) 968-8733; Precinct 2, 300 W. Hall Acres, Suite G, Pharr, (956) 787-1891; Precinct 3, 724 North Breyfogle, Mission 78574, (956) 585-4509; Precinct 4, 1051 N. Doolittle Rd., Edinburg 78542, (956) 383-3112. “The hours of operations for each collection station are listed above with the exception of County Holidays.” Source Not confirmed: The brochure is dated 08-22-19 and its hours conflict with what three precincts publish today — Precinct 1's live page gives Monday-Friday 7:00 AM-4:00 PM rather than 7:00 am-5:00 pm, Precinct 2 gives Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m.-3 p.m., and Precinct 3's current brochure gives Saturday 8:00 AM-11:45 AM rather than 12:00 pm. The precinct pages are the later statements and are what this batch's services record. Not confirmed: Two addresses have also moved on since 2019: the brochure's “Mile 11 North and Mile 1 1/2 West Weslaco” is published today by Precinct 1 as Sunset Park Citizen Collection Station, 13266 Mile 1 1/2 West, Mercedes 78570, and its “FM 493 & 4th St. Hargill” is published today as Corner of 5th St. & Mckinley, Hargill. Not confirmed: No zip codes are given for most stations; addresses are recorded as the county publishes them. Not confirmed: The brochure publishes no per-item fee of any kind, and no statement that a mattress is free once the permit is held — only that the permit buys access.
• Hidalgo County publishes the same brochure in Spanish, “Programa para el Depósito de la Basura del Condado de Hidalgo”, and in a county where Spanish is the working language of most households it is the version many readers will actually use. It confirms the mattress line — “Objetos Voluminosos: tanques, colchones, muebles y electrónicos” — and the eligibility gate — “ELEGIBILIDAD PARA EL PROGRAMA: Solamente los residentes pertenecientes a las áreas rurales del Condado de Hidalgo califican para obtener este permiso.” Two details are sharper in Spanish than in English. The tire limit reads “Llantas: se aceptarán hasta cuatro (4) llantas por residencia, por mes” — four tires per household per month, where the English says only “Only four (4) regular tires per month” and leaves open whether the limit is per household or per permit. And the construction-waste refusal carries a clause the English drops: “Este tipo de desecho deberá ser depositado directamente en el basurero municipal más cercano por el dueño de la vivienda o por el contratista que haya realizado el trabajo de remodelación” — remodelling debris is the homeowner's or the contractor's problem and must go straight to the nearest municipal landfill, where the English says only “Must be taken to nearest landfill”. Two things are looser in Spanish: the accepted bulky list omits the English brochure's “chairs” and “couches”, and the brush rule reads “no deben medir más de cuatro (4) pies” against the English “cut in 3 to 4 foot lengths”. Station 12 in Edinburg is labeled “Sitio de Ramas”, which states its brush-only status more plainly than the English “BRUSH SITE ONLY” tag. The station list, hours, the $25/$50/$75/$100 permit tariff and the thirteen-station count are identical in both versions. Source Not confirmed: Where the two versions differ on the accepted bulky list, this batch follows the English version, which is the longer list; neither version is dated later than the other and both carry the same 08-22-19 revision. Not confirmed: The Spanish brochure publishes no fee for a mattress either, and no statement that disposal is free once the permit is held.
• The one curbside collection any Hidalgo County precinct does run will not take a mattress. Precinct 1's Sanitation Brush Department describes itself as “picking up brush for our Pct.1 constituents weekly” and scheduling area clean-ups through the precinct, with the elderly and disabled specifically served; residents “contact our main office at 956-968-8733 to schedule a work order”. Brush is all it names. No bulky-item, furniture or mattress collection is published by this department or by any other Hidalgo County precinct, and no fee is published for the brush service either. Source Not confirmed: The page does not say whether the brush service is free or charged, and does not state a residency rule beyond “Pct.1 constituents”. Not confirmed: It does not name mattresses or bulky items either as accepted or as refused; it simply does not mention them, which is not a published refusal. Not confirmed: Whether Precincts 2, 3 and 4 run an equivalent brush round is not published on their pages.
• Hidalgo County does not collect a mattress from anyone's curb, and it says so by describing the idea as a project it has not built yet. The county's “Rural Solid Waste Collection” page is a Department of Budget & Management initiative with “Status: In Progress”, studying the feasibility of a new collection process for rural Hidalgo County residents through a private contracted vendor on a franchising model — explicitly modeled on the arrangement Cameron County already runs next door — with the vendor collecting fees directly from rural residents. Its listed activities are still “Research other counties waste collection procedures & methods” and a cost-benefit analysis, and it awaits Commissioners Court approval. For anyone in unincorporated Hidalgo County today, that means the thirteen permit-gated citizen collection stations are not one option among several: they are the county's only answer, and getting the mattress there is the resident's own problem. For anyone inside a city's limits the county offers nothing at all, and the city's own service is the whole of it. Source Not confirmed: The page gives no target date, no vendor and no proposed price for the rural collection program; nothing about it is a fact a reader can act on yet. Not confirmed: The county publishes no bulky-item or special-pickup service of any kind, for incorporated or unincorporated residents.
• The Spanish edition of the Precinct 3 brochure, “Programa de Depósito de Basura”, carries the same five stations, the same 8:00 AM-4:45 PM weekday and 8:00 AM-11:45 AM Saturday hours, the same mattress line — “Objetos Voluminosos: tanques, colchones, muebles y electrónicos” — and the same tarp rule: “REQUISITO: TODA PERSONA QUE TRANSPORTE BASURA EN UN CAMIÓN O REMOLQUE DEBE PROTEGER SU BASURA CON UNA LONA.” Its front panel states the card surcharge that the English panel leaves off: “*Tarifa de $2.50 por cargos en tarjetas”, matching the “Credit or Debit Cards ($2.50 convenience fee)” in the Commissioners Court order. One difference runs the other way and is worth knowing before driving out with a trailer: where the English brochure restricts double-axle trailers to “ALLOWED WITH EXTRA PERMIT *FOR BRUSH ONLY”, the Spanish reads only “Vehículos con tráileres con Doble Eje — AUTORIZADO CON UN PERMISO ADICIONAL” and drops the brush-only restriction entirely. The English is the stricter statement and is what this batch records. Eligibility is identical in both: “RESIDENTES CALIFICADOS — Solo los residentes rurales y no incorporados del Condado de Hidalgo calificarán para un permiso.” Source Not confirmed: The two editions disagree on whether a double-axle trailer may carry anything but brush at a Precinct 3 station; neither is dated, and the conflict is unresolved. Not confirmed: Neither edition publishes a fee for a mattress.