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

• Not an option: The biggest reuse outlet in the San Antonio metro says no in writing. Habitat for Humanity of San Antonio & Guadalupe Valley runs three Habitat Home Centers — 311 Probandt, San Antonio, TX 78204 (210-223-3647); 5482 Walzem Rd, San Antonio, TX 78218 (210-599-7109); and 8125 Meadow Leaf, San Antonio, TX 78227 (210-674-7500) — open "Monday – Friday 8 am – 6 pm | Saturday 9 am – 5 pm | Sunday Closed", and they take donated furniture with a free pickup service and, since the two affiliates merged, "donation pick-ups in Seguin, TX on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of every month". Under FURNITURE the store lists what it takes — "Tables, Sofas and chairs, China cabinets and sideboards, Bookcases, Bed frames and nightstands, Dressers" — and then, under "WE DON'T TAKE", the first line is "Mattresses and box springs", alongside "Used sleeper sofas or futons", "TV armoires, cabinets, or entertainment centers", "Commercial office furniture", "Baby cribs, playpens, highchairs (due to safety recall concerns)" and "Pianos". So the bed frame and the nightstand are welcome and the mattress on top of them is not, at any of the three stores and on any pickup. This refusal covers the whole metro: it is the same organization for Bexar and for Guadalupe County. Source
• Bexar County runs no public waste drop-off of any kind. The Public Works Department's own Quick Links panel — the department that would own a county landfill, transfer station or citizen convenience center if one existed — lists exactly six entries, and only one of them touches waste at all: "Bexar County Flood Control Website", "Bexar County General Permit Process", "Bexar County Park Reservations", "Household Hazardous Waste Pickup Program", "MPO Safety Program - Crash Data" and "Bexar County Stormwater Quality". There is no county landfill, no county transfer station, no citizen drop-off site, no green-waste or bulky-waste yard, and no county gate rate for anything. This matters more here than the bare fact suggests: Bexar is the fourth-largest county in Texas and the county seat is San Antonio, so a reader in Converse, Live Oak, Universal City, Selma or China Grove who reasons "the county must run a dump" is reasoning about a service that does not exist. Every public drop-off inside Bexar County is run by a city (San Antonio's own Bitters and Nelson Gardens sites among them) or by a private landfill operator, and the county has no hand in either. The county's waste role is limited to a mandatory-hauler compliance program in five named subdivisions and a household hazardous waste pickup contract, both recorded separately in this batch. Source Not confirmed: Bexar County publishes no list of private landfills or transfer stations its residents may use, and no referral page equivalent to the ones Guadalupe and Comal counties publish, so the county names no drop-off answer of its own.
• Not an option: Bexar County Environmental Services publishes exactly two resident-facing waste programs, and neither one takes a mattress. The first is the "Household Hazardous Waste Program", which the page describes as "a cooperation between Bexar County and Waste Management to arrange free pick up and disposal of material that is considered hazardous". The second is the "SA3 Recycling Center", described as "a textile recycling facility that offers free curbside pickup of gently used textiles (clothing and other fabric items) in order to responsibly recycle and reuse those items within our community" — textiles only, and a mattress is not a textile in any sense that program means. The department states its own mission as "cost effective management and regulation of On-Site Sewer Systems (OSSF), Post Construction Water Quality, Animal Control, and Code Compliance programs in Bexar County", which is a regulatory remit, not a disposal one. So the free county service that a Bexar resident might hope covers an old mattress covers paint, motor oil, batteries and old clothes instead. Contact is 210-335-6700, 1948 Probandt St., San Antonio, TX 78214, Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, closed on County holidays. Source
• Bexar County's Solid Waste Division does not collect anything. It polices whether households have a hauler. The county describes the program in its own words: "Beginning on August 1st, 2021, the mandatory trash pilot program requires residents of certain areas within Bexar County to obtain and keep an agreement with a solid waste hauler to provide service to their property", created "as an answer to the County's illegal dumping problem". The reach is five subdivisions and no more: "Bexar County is in contract with Tiger Sanitation, Inc. to provide solid waste services to the five subdivisions" — Candlewood, Camelot, Glen-North, Glen-South and Crownwood. The county is explicit that the terms are confined to them: "The following only applies to residents of the 5 'Service Areas' listed above". Price is "$27.00 per month (This price includes taxes)", with "a discounted rate of $24.00 per month" for residents 65 or over and a Collection Assistance Program application for qualifying disabled residents. The part that matters for a bulky item: "Restrict bulk pick up to 4 cubic yards and offer the service once per quarter... The hauler will pick up the 4 cubic yards free of charge as part of the program and will charge the customer individually for the remaining amount", and "Tiger Sanitation Inc. bulk pickup is available any time, once per quarter", booked at 210-333-4287. That quarterly 4-cubic-yard allowance is a real benefit, but it belongs to five subdivisions inside unincorporated Bexar County, not to the county and emphatically not to any incorporated city in it. No resident of Schertz, Converse, Live Oak, Universal City, Selma, Cibolo or San Antonio is eligible for it by virtue of living in Bexar County. Source Not confirmed: The county does not say whether a mattress counts inside the 4-cubic-yard quarterly bulk allowance; the page names no accepted or excluded items at all, and an unpublished inclusion is not an inclusion. Not confirmed: The five service areas are subdivisions rather than incorporated places, so the program cannot be scoped to any geography this site holds; it is recorded as a finding only and no service row is created for it. Not confirmed: The county publishes no map or boundary for the five subdivisions, so a resident cannot check from the page whether their address is inside one.
• The one county-wide thing Bexar County does offer is dumpsters, and only a homeowners association can ask for them. Bexar County Public Works' "Request for Bulk Clean Up with Dumpsters" form requires "a written formal request on a letterhead from the Homeowners Association (HOA) requesting the cleanup", with "a weekend date for the event - minimum 4 weeks from the date of the request", a secured location on private property, a signed Permission for Right-of-Entry form, a point of contact and the number of homes in the community, submitted to the superintendent of the Souththon, Cagnon or Judson Service Center. The county then "will schedule the delivery of dumpsters on a Friday and removal on the following Monday", and the HOA must monitor the area until they are gone. Two conditions decide who this is actually for, and they pull in opposite directions: "Event must be open to any resident of Bexar County" and "The event cannot be used to collect fees, donations, or have any other requirements for residents to participate in the clean up" — so an approved event is free and county-wide open, not HOA-members-only — but "Approval of dumpster request is contingent on availability of funds", and nothing in the form lets an individual resident request one. The county's restrictions are hazardous materials only: "Bexar County Public Works will not remove or otherwise handle any hazardous waste or any of the following items including, but not limited to: Paints, Herbicides, Chemicals, Oils, Batteries, Antifreeze, Gas Cylinders, Refrigerators, Freon, Tires, Gasoline, Flammable Liquids and other various items that contain Hazardous Materials." Items must sit "below the level of the top of the dumpster in order to be hauled off". Source Not confirmed: Mattresses are named neither on an accepted list nor on the restricted list — the form publishes only the hazardous-materials exclusion — so whether a mattress may go in a county dumpster is not established. Not confirmed: The county publishes no calendar of approved events, so a resident cannot find out from the page whether one is scheduled near them; events surface only through the requesting HOA. Not confirmed: No street addresses are published for the Souththon, Cagnon and Judson Service Centers on this form, only superintendent names and phone numbers.
• Not an option: Bexar County's free at-the-door collection exists, is genuinely free, and is the clearest "unincorporated only" line the county draws anywhere — and it does not take mattresses. The Household Hazardous Waste Pickup Program schedules a free home collection through WM's At Your Door service on 1-800-449-7587, and the county states the restriction in one sentence with no qualifiers: "For qualified residents of unincorporated Bexar county only." A resident of Converse, Live Oak, Selma, Universal City, Schertz or San Antonio is outside it by definition. What it collects is also fixed and published: "Aerosols, Antifreeze, Automotive chemicals, Batteries (Household AA, C, D, auto, hearing aid, etc.), Chlorine bleach, Cleaners, Corrosive chemicals, Drain openers, Fluorescent tubes, Gasoline, Herbicides, Hobby chemicals, Lubricants, Paint and Paint Products, Pesticides, Rust Removers, Used motor oil/filters" — every entry a chemical or a container of one. The collection works by kit: the hotline ships a kit, "All materials, such as gasoline, poisons, pesticides and aerosols, must be placed into the Kit", which settles the matter for anything the size of a bed. This is recorded so that a reader who has heard Bexar County collects things for free at home learns what that program actually is before making a call about a mattress. Source