How to get rid of a mattress in New London, WI.

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 New London and its neighbors.

• Waupaca County, Wisconsin collects nothing itself: the county publishes no curbside route and no bulky item collection, and its PTF page states plainly that "The PTF has no garbage or recycling pick-up service." The county's curbside page says "Waupaca County has 16 Municipal curbside collection programs which are paid for through your property taxes" and names them — the cities of Clintonville, Marion and Waupaca; the towns of Bear Creek, Caledonia, Dupont, Farmington, Fremont, Larrabee, Union, Waupaca and Weyauwega; and the villages of Big Falls, Embarrass, Fremont and Iola — all of them recyclables programs run by the municipality, not by the county. For everyone else the page lists four private haulers (Faulks Bros. Construction, GFL Environmental, Harter's Fox Valley Disposal and Waste Management) with no prices. New London, the Waupaca County community on our list, is not among the 16, and its city limits straddle Waupaca and Outagamie counties; whatever collection it runs is the city's own and belongs on the city page. Source Not confirmed: The county does not say whether any of the 16 municipal programs takes bulky items or mattresses, and does not price the private haulers Not confirmed: Whether the county's recyclables Drop-Off Centers take anything beyond the four sorts was not checked
• Waupaca County takes weight off the scale for a mattress, which is a rule almost no county publishes and which changes what a mixed load actually costs. The county's "What Do I Do With?" page carries a "Mattresses & Box Springs" section of three sentences. It gives the per-item charge - "The Processing and Transfer Facility accepts mattresses and box springs for disposal for $15.00 each." - and then adds the allowance that matters to anyone hauling a bed along with household trash in the same vehicle: "If you have a mixed load of solid waste and mattresses, 60lbs. will be deducted from your total weight." Because the Processing & Transfer Facility bills solid waste by weight and bills bedding per item, the deduction exists to stop the same mattress being charged twice over - once at the flat per-item rate and again inside the tonnage it adds to the load. The figure is worth doing the arithmetic on rather than taking as a full exemption: a mattress runs 50 to 100 pounds, so 60 pounds covers a twin or a full outright but leaves part of a queen's or a king's weight still on the scale, and the page sets the deduction at 60 pounds whether the load holds one mattress or several. The page's only gesture at an alternative to burying the item is an outbound "Click here to learn about alternatives to landfilling your mattress" link, which leads to a third-party consumer website rather than to any recycler, program or collection site the county operates or names. Source Not confirmed: The page does not say whether the 60-pound deduction is applied once per load or once per mattress, so a household bringing a bed and a box spring, or two mattresses, cannot tell from the county's own words how much weight comes off. Not confirmed: How the deduction interacts with the facility's weight-based charge is not stated. The page gives no per-ton rate and no minimum alongside the deduction, and does not say whether the 60 pounds comes off before or after the facility's minimum charge is applied - which decides whether the allowance is worth anything at all to a household load light enough to fall under that minimum in the first place. Not confirmed: The sentence says "a mixed load of solid waste and mattresses" while the section heading and the per-item price both cover box springs, so whether a box spring also earns the deduction is not stated. Not confirmed: Nothing says whether a mattress taken to the facility is recycled or landfilled; the page's own wording about "alternatives to landfilling" implies landfill is what happens there, but the county does not say so outright. Not confirmed: The county names no mattress recycler, take-back or diversion program of its own: the link offered for alternatives goes to an outside commercial site, so no recycling route is established for Waupaca County.