Updated 2026-08-26
Five kinds of organizations take old mattresses, each with its own conditions. Match your mattress and your patience to the right one.
Charities and furniture banks
Take: clean, undamaged mattresses under roughly eight to ten years old. Cost: free, occasionally with pickup. Catch: the condition bar is real, most do not pick up, and Goodwill mostly declines mattresses entirely. Best for: mattresses with genuine life left.
Recycling facilities
Take: nearly any mattress, since the steel, foam, and wood are the point. Cost: a per unit fee in most of the country, free at program funded sites in California, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Oregon. Catch: you haul it there. Best for: worn mattresses in metro areas or program states.
Your municipality
Takes: mattresses on scheduled bulk days or by appointment in many cities, sometimes free, sometimes ticketed. Catch: their calendar, their wrapping rules, and in Massachusetts, nothing at all, since disposal is banned statewide and mattresses must route to recycling instead. Best for: patient people whose city runs a good program.
Mattress retailers
Take: your old mattress at delivery of a new one, usually for an added fee, never as a standalone service. Catch: no purchase, no haul. Best for: people buying new anyway. Retailer take back, explained.
Full service pickup
Takes: any mattress, from inside your home, on your schedule, from $85 with the price guaranteed at checkout. Routes it donation first, recycling second, disposal last, and the price is identical across outcomes. Best for: anyone whose answer to when is now. Your price is here.
The one sentence router
Great condition, go charity. Worn but you own a truck, go recycler. Patient, go municipal. Buying new, bundle the haul. Otherwise, book the window and be done today.