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

• Not an option: The Comal County Habitat for Humanity ReStore, 1269 Industrial Drive, New Braunfels, Texas 78130, (830) 625-7005, takes donated furniture and collects it across Comal County, but its published donation policy rules out a bed three ways over. Under items it will not accept it names "Mattresses and box springs", "Bedding, linens, and drapes" and "Used sleeper sofas and futons", alongside paint and chemicals, food and clothing, gas appliances, dishwashers, inoperable items, furniture with damage or pet issues, old electronics and compromised plumbing. What it does take is "working appliances, furniture (sofas, chairs, tables, dressers), lighting fixtures, doors, windows, plumbing fixtures, tools, and hardware", provided items are "in decent, clean, working and sellable condition", and it currently asks for "Couches, tables, nightstands, dressers, and large appliances". Regular hours are closed Monday and Tuesday through Friday 10 AM to 5 PM, with summer hours of Tuesday through Saturday 8 AM to 3 PM. This is the nearest ReStore for New Braunfels, Bulverde, Garden Ridge, Spring Branch and Canyon Lake, and the answer on a mattress is the same one the San Antonio and Seguin Habitat stores give: no. Source
• Comal County runs one public drop-off site and it is a recycling and brush yard, not a dump. The Comal County Recycling & Chipping Center sits at 281 Resource Drive, New Braunfels, TX 78132, (830) 643-3781, open Monday through Friday 6:30 AM to 4:00 PM and Saturday 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM, closed Sunday, with the brush yard closing fifteen minutes before the facility. What the county accepts is a closed list: aluminum cans, chipboard, corrugated cardboard and moving boxes, electronics excluding televisions and computer monitors, rinsed tin cans, all metal types, appliances, car tires at $2.00 each (clean, no cuts, no rims), and brush defined as "Branches, Tree Limbs, Shrubs, Bushes". Load charges apply to brush: $15 for a pick-up truck, $30 for a trailer 14 feet or smaller, $45 for a trailer over 14 feet, $150 for a roll-off dumpster or dump truck. Mattresses appear nowhere on the accepted list, and nor does furniture, household bulky waste or general refuse of any kind — the brush list is explicitly limited to woody material and even excludes vines, weeds, stumps, bagged leaves and construction materials. A Comal County resident in Bulverde, Garden Ridge, Spring Branch, Canyon Lake, Fair Oaks Ranch, Selma or the Comal County part of Schertz therefore has no county site that will take a bed, and no county rate for one. The county's own answer to that is a referral to a private recycler, recorded separately in this batch. The one residency line the page publishes is about mulch, which is "available free of charge to Comal County residents". Source Not confirmed: The county publishes no explicit refusal of mattresses; it publishes an accepted list that does not include them, and an item missing from an accepted list is not a priced service. Not confirmed: No residency requirement or proof-of-address rule is published for dropping off recyclables, tires or brush — only the mulch giveaway is described as being for Comal County residents. Not confirmed: The county closed its six outlying recycling drop-off sites in the Canyon Lake, Bulverde, Spring Branch and Garden Ridge areas in the 2025 budget; this was reported in local press rather than on a county page, so the closure is not treated as established here beyond the fact that the county's own page now lists only the Resource Drive site.
• Comal County narrowed the Resource Drive site rather than widening it. The county's own January 2026 services notice for the Comal County Recycling Center, 281 Resource Dr., New Braunfels, states that as of January 1, 2026 the center will "no longer accept Single Stream: paper, plastics, glass, food cans, tin cans, newspapers, books, magazines", and lists what remains: metal and aluminum drinking cans, tires at "$2.00 each" for automotive and light truck only, cardboard, electronics excluding televisions and computer monitors, appliances, brush, and free mulch for residents. The 2026 load fees are restated as pick-up truck $15, trailer 14 feet or smaller $30, trailer over 14 feet $45, dump truck $150. Hours on the 2026 notice are Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., closed Sundays and county holidays — a half-hour later on weekday mornings than the county's web page still shows, which is worth a reader checking before an early drive. The direction of travel is the point for anyone hoping the county might take a bed: the county is removing accepted materials to stay "fiscally sustainable", not adding bulky household items, and mattresses are named nowhere in either the retained or the dropped list. Source Not confirmed: The county's web page and its January 2026 notice give different weekday hours (6:30 a.m. against 7:00 a.m.); both are recorded as published rather than reconciled.
• Comal County operates no waste collection of any kind — no bulky-item pickup, no unincorporated-area route, no voucher program, no clean-up day published on a county page. The Engineer's Office, which owns recycling for the county, publishes a resident-facing links panel containing exactly two entries, and both are referrals to private businesses rather than county services: "Disposal of TVs, Computer Monitors, Tempered Glass, Etc." pointing to a third-party operator, and "Mattress and Box Spring Recycling" pointing to texasrecyclewarehouse.com. That is the entire published county offer for anything the Resource Drive center will not take. For a reader in unincorporated Comal County — Spring Branch, Canyon Lake, Bulverde's fringes, the hill country between New Braunfels and US 281 — this is the finding that matters: there is no county service to call, household collection is whatever private hauler the household contracts with, and the county's own advice for a mattress is a business in another county. Inside the cities the answer is different again, because New Braunfels, Bulverde, Selma, Fair Oaks Ranch and Garden Ridge each arrange their own collection, which is city research rather than county research. Source Not confirmed: Comal County publishes no page that states in words that it runs no collection; this is established from the absence of any such program across the Engineer's Office recycling links and the county Recycling page, which together are the county's resident-facing waste publications. Not confirmed: No county-wide clean-up, amnesty or free dump day could be found on a Comal County page. The quarterly Bulky Goods Drop-Off events that do take mattresses in this area are a City of New Braunfels program for city residents, not a county one, and belong to that city's research.