How to get rid of a mattress in Martinsville, VA.

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.

• Martinsville is an independent city, so there is no county government above it and no county answer to fall back on - and the city's own rate schedule is the whole of what a resident pays. The Refuse Collection page, "Effective December 16, 2025", sets "Residential Collection: $20.60", "Businesses (twice/week): $40.40 per month", "8 yard Dumpster (scheduled collection) - $28.62 per occurrence" and "8 yard Dumpster (on-demand collection) - $33.97 per occurrence". No bulk or large-item charge appears anywhere on that schedule, and the page routes large items into the existing program instead: "Large bulk items such as furniture, appliances, etc., should be called into the Bulk Trash Pick-up program. To schedule a Bulk Trash Pick-up, call 276-403-5419 before noon the day before regular garbage collection day." The city collects "refuse four days per week, collecting residential garbage once per week in four zones and daily for the central business district". Container and set-out rules: at the curb by 7:30 a.m. on the collection day, nothing in the street, and "Do not use trash cans larger than 32 gallons in size, as larger cans cause lifting difficulties and hazards to garbage collectors. The City may refuse service for larger cans." The city also states that "Scavenging or picking of garbage is strongly discouraged." Read with the bulk program's own eligibility sentence - that bulk collection is not provided to Henry County customers because "the garbage portion of the utility bills for county customers is for weekly regular trash pickup and does not include bulk or brush pickups" - the $20.60 monthly residential rate is the only charge the city publishes that touches a city household's bulk pickup. Source Not confirmed: Martinsville publishes no separate charge for a bulk trash pickup. The city contrasts county customers, whose garbage portion "does not include bulk or brush pickups", with its own residential customers, but it nowhere states that a bulk pickup is free or that the $20.60 monthly rate covers it, and an unpublished charge is not a free one. Not confirmed: The city's bulk list names "Furniture (tables, chairs, beds, sofas, etc.)" and never names a mattress, a box spring or bedding by item.
• Martinsville's self-haul answer is published twice, at two different street addresses, and priced in neither place. The Bulk Trash Collection Program page, listing what the city will not take at the curb, says: "Any unacceptable item should be taken to the First Piedmont Transfer Station, located at: 225 Arden Circle, Martinsville, VA 24112. They can be reached by calling 276-638-3792." The city's Solid Waste Disposal page names the same operator and the same phone number at a different address - "1 Progress Drive, Martinsville, VA 24112" - and its driving directions reconcile the two by ending "left on Arden Circle at the transfer station/landfill sign", so Arden Circle is the approach to the Progress Drive site rather than a second facility. That page adds the only eligibility statement the city makes about it: the transfer station "is open to the general public for disposal of items not accepted during normal garbage collection". On price the city declines to answer and hands the reader to the contractor: "Contact First Piedmont Corporation at 276-638-3792 for disposal Fees and charges." So a Martinsville household turned away at the curb has one in-town place to go, with no published hours, no accepted-items list and no rate of any kind. Source Not confirmed: Neither the city nor First Piedmont publishes the transfer station's hours, its accepted-items list, whether it takes a mattress, or any fee or per-ton rate, so no price can be recorded for it. Not confirmed: The city publishes two addresses for the one site - 225 Arden Circle and 1 Progress Drive - and only the driving directions suggest they are the same place.

• Governor vetoed HB 86 (2026 session), which would have created a mattress recycling program with a purchase fee; veto statement dated April 13, 2026 calls mandating all retailers join a single program and raise prices unworkable. No statewide mattress program in effect. Source
• Virginia DEQ operates no statewide item locator. Its Statewide Recycling Programs page tells residents "Your local government website or recycling coordinator is the best source for detailed information on recycling and special collection events" and, to find where to recycle hard-to-dispose items, to contact the Recycling Program Manager in their locality; it names the third-party Earth911 website as the universal resource. The only product-specific statewide program listed is Computer & Electronics Recycling under Virginia's Computer Recovery and Recycling Act. The page's list of common Virginia recyclables does not include mattresses or furniture. Source
• Virginia's recycling mandates are rate mandates on localities, not material bans: each county, city, town or regional authority (Solid Waste Planning Unit) must maintain recycling programs meeting at least 15% (low population density or high unemployment) or 25% (all others), must maintain a Solid Waste Management Plan, and may be required to file a Recycling Action Plan if it falls short. No material is banned from disposal and mattresses are not mentioned. The page links a statewide "Recycling Program Managers (by Locality)" contact list (deq.virginia.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/29928/639154037491930000) and the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Regulations at 9VAC20-130. Source
• Mattress Recycling Council's Program States page names exactly four program states — California, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Oregon. Virginia is not among them; MRC's head office is at 501 Wythe Street, Alexandria VA 22314, but it runs no Virginia program. This is consistent with the existing record that Virginia's 2026 mattress recycling bill (HB 86) was vetoed. Source