How to get rid of a mattress in Richland Hills, 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.

• City of Richland Hills Garbage & Recycling page. Franchise: "The City of Richland Hills contracts with Republic Waste Services for garbage & recycling service." Collection days: "Garbage collection: Tuesday and Friday"; "Recycling collection: Friday". The 2026 residential rates carried on the page are Curbside $17.74, Backdoor $22.88, Senior Curbside $16.74, Senior Backdoor $21.78 per month, billed with water and sewer. For self-haul the city points residents to a landfill it does not run: "Residents are able to use the Republic Services Landfill located at 800 Mosier Valley Rd, Euless, TX 76040." "The hours of operation are Monday-Saturday from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m." "A proof of residency, such as a utility bill, would be required to use the landfill." On price the city says only "Cost varies by type and amount of waste" — no rate card, no mattress fee, and no resident free allowance is published. The page names no mattress anywhere. Source Not confirmed: The city publishes no price for the Euless landfill beyond "Cost varies by type and amount of waste", so what a Richland Hills resident would pay to drop a mattress there is not established and no rate is recorded
• Richland Hills Code of Ordinances, Chapter 66 Solid Waste, Article I In General, § 66-1 Definitions [Code 1984, ch. 11, § 16(A); Ord. No. 839-98, § I, 5-12-1998]. The code names a mattress once, and places it in trash rather than in bulky waste: "Rubbish means all residentially generated waste wood, wood products, grass cuttings, dead plants, weeds, leaves, chips, shavings, sawdust, printed matter, paper, pasteboard, rags, straw, used and discarded mattresses, white goods, pulp and other products such as are used for packaging or wrapping, crockery, glass, ashes, cinders, floor sweepings, mineral or metallic substances and any and all other waste materials not included in the definition of brush, bulky waste, bundle or boxed bundle, debris, residential repair debris, refuse, medical waste or hazardous waste." Separately, "Bulky waste means stoves, refrigerators, water tanks, washing machines, dryers, furniture, appliances and other waste materials with weights or volumes greater than those allowed for containers", excluding loose construction debris, dead animals, hazardous waste, medical waste or stable matter, uncertified CFC-bearing appliances, and anything the contractor is barred by law from landfilling. Disposal rule, § 66-2: "The disposal of refuse and rubbish at any place within the city limits or within 5,000 feet outside of the city limits is prohibited" unless done as the chapter requires. § 66-3 makes it a misdemeanor to meddle with, pilfer or scatter the contents of any container or to "junk any item in any alley or street within the city", punishable under section 1-14. Source
• Richland Hills Code of Ordinances, Chapter 66 Solid Waste, Article II Division 1 Generally. § 66-33: "Contractor shall make two collections each week for each residential customer", not before 7:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m., with no Sunday or holiday collection except by prior special arrangement; the observed holidays are New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. § 66-32(a) is the only off-cycle route the code provides and it carries no published price: "Contractor shall provide an on-call service for the collection of large quantities of debris, including temporary roll-off service. Upon request by a customer, contractor shall provide an estimate of the cost to remove and dispose of such items and upon mutual agreement between Contractor and customer, the contractor shall perform the service. The agreed upon fee for the service shall be paid by the customer immediately upon completion of the work performed." § 66-32(c) governs refusal: if a customer "places improper bundles or volumes of brush or trash for collection, contractor may refrain from collecting" and must leave written notice on the container or front door stating the violation and the correction required. § 66-31 bars anyone without a city council permit from collecting refuse, trash, brush or trash in the city, while expressly preserving a resident's right to dispose of their own refuse under section 66-2. Source Not confirmed: The on-call service under § 66-32(a) is priced by estimate between contractor and customer, so no figure is published and none is recorded
• Not an option: Nothing mattress-specific is published for Richland Hills. The city's solid waste pages (Bulk Pickup, Acceptable Garbage, Garbage & Recycling) carry no mattress recycler, no take-back program and no mattress drop-off; the only recycling the city publishes is the Friday curbside recycling run by Republic Services. Texas operates no statewide mattress recycling program — the Mattress Recycling Council's Bye Bye Mattress program runs in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island only — so there is no state program for a Richland Hills resident to fall back on. Source

• 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