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

• Not an option: Travis County runs exactly one public drop-off of its own, and it will not take a mattress. The county's Recycling and Disposal page lists the “Travis County 1431 Citizens Collection Center” at “2625 Woodall Dr Cedar Park, TX 78613”, phone 512-998-3781, open “8:00 am-3:50 pm Thursday-Saturday (Closed Sunday-Wednesday)”, at a cost of “$4.33 (tax included) per cubic yard (roughly the size of a pick-up bed). Cash or check only (credit cards are not accepted)”. Under “Materials Accepted” it says “Household Trash Only”. Under “Materials Not Accepted” it lists “Business/commercial waste”, “Household hazardous waste”, “Recycling”, “Appliances”, “Large furniture”, “Mattresses”, “Organic waste” (“This includes animal carcasses and brush/woody debris”) and “Tires”. The page sends anyone with one of those items to the county's own drop-off locator at https://recycle.traviscountytx.gov/. Elsewhere on the same page the county prints the site's address as “1431 Collection Station 2625 Woodall Dr Leander, TX 78613” in its Christmas-tree list, so the county itself gives the town as Cedar Park in one place and Leander in the other for the same street address. Source Not confirmed: The county page sets no residency test for the 1431 Citizens Collection Center, so who may use it is not established. Not confirmed: Travis County publishes no alternative county drop-off that does take a mattress.
• Not an option: The one free drop-off open county-wide will not take a mattress. Austin Resource Recovery's Recycle & Reuse Drop-off Center states that “Use of the facility is free for Austin and Travis County residents”, with fees for non-residents, and that an appointment is required. It takes household hazardous waste, electronics, appliances, recyclables and tires (tires at $6 per tire), and its own page states that the Recycle and Reuse Center does not accept furniture or mattresses. So the free Austin/Travis County option covers almost everything except the item this page exists for. Source Not confirmed: The center's street address and opening hours are not printed on this page; Travis County's own page gives the site as 2514 Business Center Drive, Austin 78744.
• Travis County has run at least one free bulky clean-up day at which mattresses were accepted, in the southeast of the county. The county's notice reads “Calling all of our Mustang Ridge and Creedmoor neighbors! Let's roll up our sleeves for Earth Month and spruce up our towns”, and gives “Saturday April 27, 2024 9 am – 1 pm” at “5008 Hartung Lane Creedmoor, Texas, 78610”. Eligibility is residents of Creedmoor, Mustang Ridge or surrounding southeast Travis County areas, who must “bring proof of residence (i.e., state ID, utility bill, etc.)”. The accepted list names appliances, furniture, scrap metal, lumber, “Mattresses” and flat-screen TVs; paint, tires, hazardous items, motor oil, gasoline and old-style televisions are not accepted. “This event is free for eligible residents.” The date has passed, and the county does not publish a standing schedule for repeats. Source Not confirmed: No later Travis County bulky clean-up day is published, so whether this is an annual event is not established. Not confirmed: The notice does not set a per-household limit on what may be brought.
• Not an option: The obvious reuse outlet across Travis County refuses mattresses outright. Austin Habitat for Humanity's ReStore donation guidelines list “Used mattresses and box springs” among the items not accepted, under the Furniture heading; linens are accepted under Home Goods, but the mattress itself is not. The refusal covers all three ReStores: South Austin, “500 W Ben White Blvd, Austin, TX 78704”, (512) 478-2165, “Mon – Sat: 9am – 8pm, Sunday: 11am – 6pm” with donation doors closing thirty minutes before the store; Northwest Austin, “13804 N US-183, Austin, TX 78750”, (512) 367-5795, “Mon – Sat: 10am – 7pm, Sunday: 11am – 6pm”; and San Marcos, “2521 S Interstate 35, San Marcos, TX 78666”, (512) 738-8383, “Mon – Sat: 10am – 6pm, Sunday: 11am – 6pm”. Their donation-pickup service is offered but its geographic boundary is not published. Source Not confirmed: No Travis County furniture bank or shelter with a published policy of accepting used mattresses could be established from a primary source.
• Travis County publishes no bulky-item or mattress collection of its own. The Transportation & Natural Resources “Recycling and Disposal” page — the county's own solid-waste page — carries only four programs: household hazardous waste (taken at the City of Austin's facility, “2514 Business Center Drive Austin 78744”, where “The City of Austin Recycle & Reuse Drop-off center is open to City of Austin and Travis County residents to safely dispose hazardous waste” and “The facility will dispose of up to 30 gallons of hazardous waste generated in the home free of charge”); the 1431 Citizens Collection Center; prescription take-back kiosks; and free Christmas tree recycling at five county sites from December 26 to January 11, where “There is no charge for Travis County residents to drop off their trees.” No curbside or on-call collection of any kind is offered, and the county instead points residents at its drop-off locator for “paint, furniture, tires, electronics, construction debris, and other materials”. Source Not confirmed: Whether any Travis County precinct or emergency services district arranges bulky collection for unincorporated areas is not stated on the county's pages.