How to get rid of a mattress in Wichita Falls, 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.

• Wichita Falls runs a named city recycling program, Choose to Reuse, and mattresses are not part of it. The page sets out the whole of what the city recycles: a curbside organics green cart at '$3 per month' collected every Wednesday, taking 'Grass clippings, tree trimmings, kitchen food, waste and paper products'; free compost give-aways 'twice a year FREE during the compost events held on the first Saturday in March and October'; newspaper and glass drop-offs at seven fire stations, United Market Street (4590 Kell Blvd) and United Supermarkets (4516 Old Jacksboro Hwy); newspaper, glass and aluminum at the Transfer Station (3200 Lawrence Rd) and the Sanitation Offices (200 Sunset); metal recycling at the landfill, where 'Aluminum, copper, brass and steel are accepted... Items such as portable buildings, BBQ grills, metal chair frames, cans, wire, siding, etc. are accepted'; and appliance recycling, where 'Stoves, washers and dryers are accepted at the Transfer Station and Landfill' with refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners accepted only at the landfill where a certified technician can remove the Freon. A mattress appears nowhere on the list, and the city's own ordinance (WFMC 90-2(b)) sends all municipal solid waste to the city landfill for burial. No mattress-specific recycler, take-back or collection site serving Wichita Falls was established. Source Not confirmed: Several commercial listings for 'mattress recycling in Wichita Falls' appear in directories, but none of the named businesses publishes a street address together with a mattress price or a stated mattress policy on its own site, so none meets the standard for listing Not confirmed: Whether the metal recycling at the city landfill would accept a stripped mattress frame separately from the mattress is not addressed by the page
• Wichita Falls's own words on set-out and enforcement, from Chapter 90 of the city code as adopted by Ordinance No. 42-2024. The code defines bulky waste to include mattresses by name: 'Bulky waste. The following residential-type items: furniture, treated wood, construction materials generated by a service unit... as a result of a residential project, mattresses and box springs, carpet, swing sets, plastic swimming pools, small and large toys, bicycles, fish aquariums, toilets, residential appliances and other similar items, white goods (CFC-free); provided such items do not contain hazardous waste or any waste which is not acceptable at the designated landfill.' The set-out window is fixed by 90-24: 'Containers shall be placed at the curb no earlier than 5:00 p.m. on the day before the scheduled collection day and no later than 7:00 a.m. on the scheduled day of collection... Containers shall be removed from the curb no later than 11:59 p.m. on the day of collection', with the same five-foot horizontal and 13.5-foot vertical clearance that applies to bulky waste. Section 90-22(c) makes it 'unlawful for a person to: (1) Place trash for collection in violation of this chapter; or (2) Allow trash placed on property under his or her control to remain on such property in violation of this chapter', and 90-22(d) makes it unlawful to remove household waste someone else has placed for collection. The penalty is stated in 90-75(f): 'Any violation of any provision of this Chapter for each day or portion of a day during which the violation is committed, continued or permitted shall be considered a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by a fine.' Section 90-3(a) requires every residential, commercial, industrial and institutional location in the city to have solid waste collection service, and 90-3(c) bills multifamily units and apartment complexes per unit whether occupied or not. Residential rates published by the city are $18.27 a month for a curb cart (twice weekly) or $27.30 for an alley dumpster, carry-out service from $46.25 to $67.10 depending on distance, and a recycling container at $3.32. Source Not confirmed: The Class C misdemeanor fine is not given a dollar amount or range anywhere in Chapter 90 Not confirmed: No ordinance provision requires a mattress to be wrapped or bagged before set-out Not confirmed: Chapter 90 contains no apartment or HOA-specific rule for bulky items beyond the per-unit billing requirement in 90-3(c)
• Wichita Falls offers a volunteer route to free disposal that a neighborhood or HOA can organize, though it is not an individual household service. The Neighborhood Cleanup page states: 'Community groups and homeowner associations can request up to four cleanup events per year, with extra containers provided by the city (if available). All regulations shall be followed pursuant to 90-9(a)(b)(c) of City code.' Requests must be submitted 'at least 30 days in advance to sanitation superintendent', with a named point of contact and a container placement site 'that is not on city property'. The free-disposal terms are published: 'No extra charges for properly bagged trash placed in city-provided containers', 'Volunteers cannot overload containers beyond their height or sides', and 'Volunteers can dump trash for free at the city transfer station and landfill on the event day', giving sanitation staff their volunteer group or project name when dumping. Prohibited from the roll-off containers under 90-65(b) are liquid paint, liquid wastes, pesticides, batteries, motor oil, herbicides, refrigerators, air-conditioners and tires. Mattresses are not prohibited. Source Not confirmed: Mattresses are not named as acceptable in a cleanup roll-off container either; only the prohibited list is published Not confirmed: No dates for any scheduled or citywide cleanup event are published - the program is entirely request-driven
• Not an option: Wichita Falls Faith Mission, the city's main donation-goods charity, will not take a used mattress and says so on its own donate page. Its 'Items We Cannot Accept' list names 'Used Mattresses and Box Springs' outright, alongside automobile parts ('Tires, wheels, batteries, seats, body parts and engines'), building materials ('Carpet, shutters, doors, windows, toilets, lumber, concrete'), 'Damaged, Broken or Inoperable Items', 'Furniture with rips, tears, broken pieces, stains, odors or pet hair', open games and puzzles, and tube TVs and printers. Furniture in good condition is accepted and the Mission runs a pickup service at (940) 766-0705. Faith Mission is at 1300 Travis Street, Wichita Falls TX 76301, (940) 723-5663; the associated Faith Refuge is at 710 E. Hatton Road, Wichita Falls TX 76302, (940) 322-4673. For a reader in Wichita Falls this closes the most obvious donation route for a mattress before they load the car. Source Not confirmed: The page publishes no donation drop-off hours

• 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