How to get rid of a mattress in Van Alstyne, 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 Van Alstyne Code of Ordinances, Chapter 34 (Solid Waste). § 34-2 requires every person owning or occupying premises where garbage accumulates to subscribe to a sanitation collection service and makes it 'unlawful for any person to dispose or disburse any garbage or trash in any place other than the designated sites' and 'unlawful for anyone to deposit or dump garbage or trash upon any drain, gutter, alley, sidewalk, parkway, street, or vacant lot except in receptacles as outlined'. § 34-3 sets the penalty: 'Violations of this chapter constitute an offense punishable by fine of not less than $1.00 or more than $2,000.00. Each violation is deemed distinct and a separate offense.' § 34-27 sets the set-out window: containers are to be placed 'no earlier than 6:00 p.m. of the afternoon preceding the collection day and the containers must be removed within 24 hours of scheduled pickup.' § 34-33(h) confirms the city runs a bulk day: 'Yard waste, brush, tree limbs, and cuttings shall be placed at curbside no earlier than 6:00 p.m. on the day prior to the scheduled bulk trash collection day.' § 34-33(c) puts some heavy waste on the resident: 'Accumulations such as building debris, automobile parts, and large dead trees must be disposed of at the expense of the owner or contract with the franchise contractor.' § 34-33(g) limits brush bundles to two by two by four feet and 50 pounds. § 34-33(d) makes it unlawful to leave out any ice box, refrigerator or freezer with a self-locking door unless the mechanism is altered or the door removed. § 34-25 and § 34-32 bill collection charges on the utility bill and allow the city to cut off utilities for non-payment. § 34-24 reserves to the city the exclusive right to provide collection, and § 34-31 makes unfranchised collection for hire unlawful. Codified through Ordinance No. 2008, March 10, 2026. Source Not confirmed: The chapter never names mattresses or box springs. Not confirmed: Chapter 34 sets no bulky-item allowance or fee of its own; § 34-25 refers charges to 'the city fee schedule', which is not reproduced in the chapter. Not confirmed: No wrapping or bagging requirement specific to mattresses appears in the code.
• Not an option: The nearest municipal self-haul drop-off to Van Alstyne, the City of Sherman Citizens' Trash Drop-Off Station at 811 S. East Street, is closed to Van Alstyne residents. The city's own flyer states: 'The Citizen Trash Drop-Off Station is located at 811 S. East Street. Citizens must bring a drivers' license and current water bill to show proof of residency in Sherman.' It is open Tuesdays and Thursdays 12pm to 5pm and Saturdays 10am to 3pm except holidays, and charges 'Up to 2 cubic yards $11.00', 'Any additional yards $5.00', 'Appliances $5.00 each' and a '$21.00 additional charge' for an unsecured load. A Van Alstyne resident cannot satisfy the Sherman water-bill test, so this station is not an option for them. Source Not confirmed: The flyer does not say whether a mattress is priced as loose material by the cubic yard or refused outright.
• Not an option: The other municipal drop-off in Grayson County, the City of Denison Residential Collection Station at 300 W FM 84, Denison, TX 75020, is also closed to Van Alstyne residents. Denison's page limits it to 'Residents (no contractors or land-lords) within the city limits of Denison with an active water account', who must bring a picture ID and a current water bill. It is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 8am to 5pm and Saturday 8am to noon, closed Wednesday and Sunday. Denison residents get the first 3 cubic yards of brush a month and the first 1 cubic yard of bulk junk a month at no charge, then $7.39 per additional yard of brush and $12.93 per additional yard of bulk junk, with a $22.09 tarp charge for an unsecured load and 8.25% tax on refuse services. Tires, chemicals, commercial waste, construction material, dead animals, hazardous waste and wet paint are refused. Source Not confirmed: Mattresses are not named in Denison's accepted or refused lists.
• The nearest disposal site open to a Van Alstyne resident without a city water bill is WM's Hillside Landfill at 1102 Nelson Road, Sherman, TX 75091, about a 20-mile drive south-west of Van Alstyne. WM's facility page describes it as a 'Type I municipal solid waste landfill permitted to accept non-hazardous household, commercial, industrial, and special waste' and gives hours of Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Saturday and Sunday. The page publishes no gate rate, no minimum charge and no per-item price. Source Not confirmed: Hillside Landfill publishes no price of any kind, so what a resident would pay to tip a mattress is unknown; it is recorded here as a fact about the site, not as a listed option with terms. Not confirmed: The page does not say whether self-haul residential loads are taken at the scale house in the same way as commercial loads, nor whether a mattress is accepted.

• 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