How to get rid of a mattress in Sturtevant, 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.

• Not an option: Sturtevant used to let residents haul a bulky item to the Village's own site, and it stopped. On the same Public Works page, directly under the bulk collection rules, the Village states: 'The Village recycling center will no longer accept bulk waste.' The Village's drop-off site is now a yard waste site, open on Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. to noon in season. So a Sturtevant resident with a mattress has no Village-run place to take it and no self-haul option of their own: the only route the Village offers is the monthly curbside bulk collection booked with Johns Disposal. The nearest municipal drop-off, the City of Racine's site at 6300 21st Street, is closed to them — Racine's own 2026 collection schedule restricts it to 'CITY OF RACINE RESIDENTS ONLY' on proof of residency. Source Not confirmed: The Village does not say when the recycling center stopped taking bulk waste, and does not name an alternative drop-off for a resident who would rather haul the item themselves.
• Sturtevant's code sets the curb window, backs it with a charge put on the tax roll, and authorizes bulk-item fees that have never been published. Code of Ordinances § 8.20(b)(9) provides: 'All garbage and offal will be placed at the proper point before 6:00 a.m. on the day of collection, but not before 12:00 noon the day prior to collection. No garbage or offal shall remain at the collection point or at the curb of any street or in any alley 24 hours after the scheduled day of collection and it shall be a violation of this section to allow said garbage and/or offal to so remain.' An offender may be cited, and the building inspector may additionally arrange an individual collection and charge the cost back to the property owner as a special charge under Wis. Stats. § 66.0627, invoiced by the Village Clerk and, if unpaid after 14 days, placed on the tax roll. Section 8.20(b)(6) puts the service on the Village: 'The collection, removal and disposal of garbage for single- and two-family residential dwellings shall be provided by the village,' by Village labor or by private contract. Section 8.20(b)(7) authorizes the public works director to publish rules for the collection of 'garbage, offal, bulk items, white goods, yard waste and recyclables', and provides that 'Any fees for collection, removal and disposal of garbage, offal, bulk items, white goods, yard waste and recyclables shall be set by the board of trustees by resolution or through the budget.' Section 8.20(b)(8) bars anyone not authorized by the Village from gathering or transporting garbage in a public street or alley, and § 8.20(b)(5) requires all collected garbage to be disposed of in a licensed landfill or incinerator. Source Not confirmed: The code authorizes a bulk-item fee set by the board of trustees by resolution or through the budget, and no such resolution or published fee schedule for bulk items was found. The Village has committed to charging whatever the board sets, and has not said what that is, so nothing beyond the one free monthly collection can be priced. Not confirmed: The code never names a mattress, bedding or furniture. Not confirmed: The forfeiture amount for a § 8.20 violation is not set in the section.

• 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