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

• The current government listing of where an Ellis County resident may legally dump is published by the City of Red Oak, and it names three privately owned landfills inside the county with the plain statement that “All Ellis County residents have the option of using the privately owned landfills located within the county.” They are: “CDC Landfill” in “Avalon, Just east of Italy on State Highway 34”, (972) 627-3413; “EDC Landfill” “Between Ennis and Palmer on Interstate Highway 45”, (972) 875-5374; and “Waste Management Skyline RFD” at “1201 N Central, Ferris”, (972) 842-5710. For all three the page says only: “Call them directly for their hours of operation, fees, or other information”. Hazardous-waste questions go to the “Ellis County Fire Marshall's Office at (972) 825-5555”. Ellis County's own Fire Marshal release gives the same three sites, with the spelling “CSC Landfill – in Avalon on Hwy 34 east of Italy” and “Waste Management Skyline RDF – in Ferris”, and adds two things the city page does not: “There is, of course, a fee for this service”, and the warning “(*Note …Waxahachie Landfill is for City of Waxahachie residents only!)”. Between them these are the county's published options, and none of the three publishes a mattress price. Source Not confirmed: Neither government page publishes a fee, a rate card, hours or a mattress policy for CDC/CSC Landfill, EDC Landfill or Waste Management Skyline RDF. Each is listed as a phone number and a direction to call, which is not a published term, so no price is recorded for any of them. Not confirmed: The two government sources spell the Avalon site differently — “CDC Landfill” on the Red Oak page and “CSC Landfill” in the county Fire Marshal release — and neither gives it a street address. Which spelling is correct could not be established. Not confirmed: The Ellis County Fire Marshal release carries a March 2011 date on its clean-up-voucher subject matter. Its landfill list matches the current Red Oak page, but the statement that a fee applies is eleven years older than the rest of this record. Not confirmed: Whether any of the three is open to walk-in household self-haul at all, as against contract and commercial loads, is not stated on either government page.
• Ellis County operates no solid-waste department, no county landfill, no transfer station, no convenience station and no collection of any kind. The county's own Departments index lists the complete set — Adult Probation, Behavioral Health, County Auditor, County Courthouse and Offices, Department of Development, Elections, Emergency Management, Engineering, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Fire Marshal, Human Resources, Indigent Defense Coordinator, Indigent Health Care, Information Technology, Juvenile Services, Law Library, Purchasing, Ellis County Veteran Services and Veterans Treatment Court — and there is no waste, recycling or environmental services department among them. The only waste-related item anywhere in the county's navigation is a “Report Illegal Dumping” quick link pointing at the Sheriff's Office. A site-wide search for “landfill” returns TCEQ outdoor-burning leaflets, a debris-monitoring bid document and check registers showing payments to “ELLIS COUNTY LANDFILL TX, LP” — a private company the county pays, not a facility it runs. In Ellis County the answer to “what does the county do with my mattress” is: nothing. Residents use their own city's service or pay at a privately owned landfill. Source Not confirmed: Because the county runs nothing, it publishes no eligibility statement, no fee and no unincorporated-area provision. The absence is established from the completeness of the Departments index and a site-wide search, not from a county statement saying the county does not do this.