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

• Waukesha County, Wisconsin runs no collection of any kind. Its own disposal page says so in one line: "Each municipality in the county selects their own hauler for trash and recycling. They also select the service type. Waukesha County does not provide any type of pickup service. Contact your city, town, or village for help with your service." There is therefore no county bulky item program, no county large item allowance and no county fee for a mattress pickup, and nothing at the county level that a reader in Waukesha, Brookfield, Menomonee Falls, New Berlin, Muskego, Oconomowoc, Pewaukee, Sussex, Lisbon, Hartland, Mukwonago, Vernon, Delafield, Elm Grove or Summit can book. Whatever curbside route exists for a mattress in those 17 communities is set by the municipality or by the hauler it contracted, and belongs on the municipal pages rather than here. Source Not confirmed: The county does not publish which hauler each of its 37 municipalities uses, so no municipal bulky allowance or mattress fee could be established at the county level
• Waukesha County, Wisconsin publishes a directory of the drop-off sites inside it, and not one of them takes a mattress. The page opens "Each Drop Off Site is run by the indicated municipality. If you have questions about hours, access, closings, etc., please call that City, Town, or Village directly." — so the county operates none of them. Fifteen sites are listed: the City of Brookfield Recycle Center at 19700 Riverview Dr, the Village of Pewaukee Drop Off Center at 552 Hickory St. Bldg #2, the City of Waukesha Drop-Off Center at 750 Sentry Drive, and sites in the Village of Big Bend, City of Delafield (111 Main St), Village of Eagle, Village of Elm Grove (900 Wall St), Village of Hartland (701 Progress Dr), Village of Lac La Belle, Village of Lisbon, Town of Merton, City of New Berlin (3711 Casper Drive), City of Oconomowoc (630 South Worthington Street), City of Pewaukee (W225N3201 Duplainville Road), Village of Summit (31700 Delafield Road) and Village of Waukesha (W250S3567 Center Road). Every accepted-material line is one of excess curbside recyclables, motor oil and filters, transmission fluid, antifreeze, yard waste and brush, appliances, scrap metal, batteries, tires, CFL bulbs, televisions, clothing and textiles, plastic bags, cooking oil, latex paint or food scraps. Mattresses, box springs, furniture and bulky waste appear nowhere on the page. The county does note that "The City of Brookfield, Village of Pewaukee and City of Waukesha will accept all excess curbside recyclable material from any Waukesha County Resident in addition to the items listed", and that Brookfield and the City of Waukesha take scrap metal from "All County Residents"; everything else at those three is marked city or village residents only. Source Not confirmed: The county's directory lists accepted materials per site but is not labeled exhaustive, so the absence of mattresses is recorded as an absence and not as a refusal; each municipal site's own page may say more and is left to the city pass
• Waukesha County, Wisconsin names three reuse outlets under its "Furniture, Mattresses, Boxsprings" heading, as "Donation Options": Purple Heart, St. Vincent de Paul — "Oconomowoc Store: 262-569-0761" and "Waukesha Store: 262-547-3281" — and the Waukesha Habitat for Humanity ReStore, which the same page lists elsewhere at 2120 E. Moreland Blvd., Waukesha, WI 53186, 262-662-6062. The heading groups furniture, mattresses and box springs together; none of the three outlets is quoted on the county page as accepting a mattress specifically, and none of them publishes a mattress acceptance of its own that could be verified. This is the county's whole published answer on reuse, so a reader is being pointed at three phone numbers rather than at a stated policy. Source Not confirmed: Whether the St. Vincent de Paul stores in Waukesha and Oconomowoc accept mattresses was not established — neither publishes an accepted-items list Not confirmed: Whether the Waukesha Habitat ReStore accepts mattresses was not established from its own page; no county-wide furniture bank with a published mattress acceptance was found in Waukesha County
• Waukesha County, Wisconsin publishes no mattress recycler. Its disposal page names specialist recyclers item by item — Allied Resource Recovery at 1001 Tesch Ct., Waukesha for batteries and hardcover books, Recycle Technologies in New Berlin and Elite Energy Distribution at 3545 N. 127th St., Brookfield for batteries and fluorescent lighting, COM2 Recycling Solutions in Menomonee Falls for televisions and electronics, Kral Scrap Metal at W224S8575 Industrial Ave., Big Bend and Waukesha Iron & Metal at 1351 E. Main St., Waukesha for metal, Lippert Flooring and Tile for carpet, BrewCity Compost for food scraps — and for mattresses it names only landfills, junk removal firms and donation outlets. Nothing on the county site says a mattress taken to any of its named outlets is dismantled or recycled rather than buried. Wisconsin has no state mattress recycling program of the kind that would put a county collection site on this list. Source Not confirmed: Whether any mattress taken to Emerald Park or Orchard Ridge is recycled rather than landfilled is not stated by the county or by either operator
• The one program Waukesha County, Wisconsin runs county-wide is household hazardous waste, and it is free to county residents but takes no mattress. The county lists three permanent sites — Menomonee Falls at W124N9451 Boundary Rd (Veolia Environmental Solutions), open Monday and Wednesday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. year-round; Waukesha at UWM-Waukesha, 1500 N. University Dr, the 2nd and 4th Saturdays 8 a.m. to noon from March through November, last day in 2026 Saturday, November 14; and Muskego at W124S10629 South 124th St, at the GFL Emerald Park Landfill, the 1st and 3rd Saturdays 8 a.m. to noon from February through November, last day in 2026 Saturday, November 7. The Muskego site opened on August 1, 2026. Four one-time 2026 events, all 8 a.m. to noon, were held in Mukwonago on Saturday, May 16 at the Village Public Works Garage, 630 E Veteran's Way; Brookfield on Saturday, June 6 at the City Public Works Yard, 19700 Riverview Dr.; Delafield on Saturday, June 20 at the City Department of Public Works, 111 Main St.; and Oconomowoc on Saturday, September 12 at the City Public Works Garage, 630 S. Worthington St. The sites are free for Waukesha County residents, who must show proof of residency. The program is for household hazardous waste; mattresses, furniture and bulky items are not mentioned anywhere on the page, and the county runs no free dump day, voucher or amnesty program that would cover one. Source Not confirmed: The page refers to a separate HHW flyer for what each site accepts; that flyer was not read, but a hazardous waste program is not a route for a mattress either way