How to get rid of a mattress in Hobart, WI.

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.

• The Village of Hobart, 2990 South Pine Tree Road, Hobart, WI 54155, collects garbage and recycling weekly and runs no large item program of its own — it hands the whole question to its hauler, including the price: "If you have a large item you would like to picked up, please contact GFL at 920-983-3341." GFL schedules the pickup and tells the resident the charge; the village publishes no figure and no free allowance. Carts must be roadside by 6:00 a.m., and in snow or blowing conditions the village asks residents to keep bins off the roadway so plows can pass. The 2026 holiday shifts are published: no Thursday pickup on New Year's Day, January 1, with Thursday collection one day later; no Tuesday, May 26 pickup after Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, with all collections one day later; normal pickup all week for Independence Day, Saturday, July 4; no Tuesday, September 8 pickup after Labor Day, Monday, September 7, with all collections one day later; normal Tuesday and Wednesday pickup for Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 26, with Thursday pickup moving to Friday, November 27; and normal pickup all week for Christmas, Friday, December 25. For hazardous waste the village points to Brown County at browncountyrecycling.org. Source Not confirmed: No price is published by the village for a large item or a mattress — the charge is quoted by GFL when the pickup is booked, so no figure is established and the pickup is not free. Not confirmed: The page does not name mattresses, and publishes no accepted or excluded item list for large items. Not confirmed: The page names GFL for large item pickup but does not state who holds the village's regular garbage and recycling contract; the village's 2025 request for proposals shows the previous contract was scheduled to expire on August 31, 2025 and no award notice was found, so the current regular hauler is not established.
• Hobart's own code closes the curb to a mattress outright, which is the whole answer for the village and the reason the hauler has to be called. Chapter 248, Solid Waste, Article II, § 248-22B ends: "Any item(s) which are placed outside of contractor approved cart/bin will not be picked up." The same subsection requires every residential unit to use the wheeled carts "provided... by the Village or the Village's contracted collector," says covers "shall be kept tightly on the carts," and adds "No solid waste or recyclable material shall be allowed to be disposed of in the Village which originated from outside the Village." Carts "are prohibited from being placed within the roadway" and "shall be placed and removed from the collection point within 24 hours of pickup." Anything the carts will not take is the occupant's own expense: § 248-22E bars placing a list of materials "at the curbside collection point for collection by the Village's contracted collector unless the person has made separate arrangements for the collection at the person's own expense," and § 248-21 requires occupants to "arrange for the proper collection and disposal of lead-acid batteries, major appliances, waste oil, used oil filters, oil-absorbent materials with visible free-flowing oil and electronics with a collector at the occupant's request and expense." Where it all ends up is stated in § 248-18B: "The Village contracts with the Brown County Resource Recovery Department for ultimate disposal of all Village recyclable and nonrecyclable waste." Accumulating it at home instead is not an option either: § 248-17 declares "Any accumulation of solid waste on any premises in the Village" a nuisance, removable by the Village at the owner's expense with "All unpaid charges and fines... placed on the tax roll." Dumping is covered by § 248-27: "No person may deposit, throw, discard, place or abandon any solid waste upon any street, court, lane, alley, business square, public enclosure, vacant lot, house yard, body of water, or any place, except in a container intended for that purpose." Penalties under § 248-31C: any violation except § 248-26 "may be required to forfeit not less than $10 nor more than $1,000 for each violation," while a § 248-26 violation runs "$50 for a first violation, $200 for a second violation, and not more than $2,000 for a third or subsequent violation." Article I was adopted as § 10.0 of the 2000 Code; the published code includes legislation through April 21, 2026. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 248 does not name a mattress. The § 248-22E list of materials needing separate arrangements does not include one, and the rule that reaches a mattress is the general one that anything outside the approved cart will not be picked up. Not confirmed: The code sets no charge for a special pickup and names no figure for one, so the ordinance establishes no price. Not confirmed: Ord. No. 2026-13 of July 21, 2026 amended Chapter 248, Article II, but the published code includes legislation only through April 21, 2026, so the amendment's text was not read and any change it makes to these rules is not established.

• 7 Rivers lists W6833 Industrial Blvd., Onalaska WI 54650 and phone (507) 205-2082. Operator describes recovering steel, foam and fibers from mattresses. Name and full address support the original national-directory facility identity; directory phone 608-783-6727 x103 differs. Source
• DNR RID=104 Rodefeld record FID 113127300 lists 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way, Madison 53713-1400, while county landfill page gives customer location 7102 Maahic Way, Madison 53718. Preserve both; registry address may be administrative but that explanation is not verified. Source
• La Crosse FAQ directs arrivals to 3240 Berlin Drive; DNR RID=104 FID 632063630 lists 3200 Berlin Dr, La Crosse 54601-1818. Keep source-address discrepancy explicit rather than overwriting either. Source
• Wisconsin DNR list of materials banned from landfills/incinerators (containers, cardboard, paper, #1-2 plastics, electronics, lead-acid batteries, major appliances, oil filters/waste oil, tires, yard waste) does not include mattresses. Source
• Wisconsin DNR: residents find their local recycling 'responsible unit' via an RU contact list, an RU map (experience.arcgis.com/experience/e2a75fccdc834fd5be13acd9fede067f) or a municipality-to-RU lookup. Source