Someone’s gonna love your stuff. .... and arrange a FREE pickup from inside your home with the Coalition for the Homeless. Fill out this form for in-home pickup of good-condition furniture. *** Please note *** The Coalition is NOT scheduling pickups at this time as they are in the process of moving their warehouse. Please see below for other options. Items must be clean and usable. The Coalition for the Homeless takes kitchen tables & chairs, couches & sofa chairs, ottomans, hutches, end tables, coffee tables, bed frames, dressers, bookshelves, cabinets, rugs, lamps, dishes, pots & pans, and blankets & linens. Your donation helps low-income and formerly homeless families furnish their apartments at no cost to them. The Coalition's phone number is 781-595-7570 x13. Other Pickup & Drop-Off Options Here are other organizations that offer free pickup and drop-off or your living, dining and bedroom furniture in good-condition furniture. Most only require 1-2 weeks’ notice for pick up.
Check out our partners’ websites (links in red) for drop-off locations, hours, and to check that they will accept your donation. Links to organization websites in RED. Note: only organizations marked with * take mattresses. This includes sofa beds. For free pickup use their online pickup form or call 1-800-SA-TRUCK. For free pickup use their online form or call (617) 309-7220. Drop-off good items at 563 Mass Ave, Cambridge, from 12 noon-7pm. MIT Student Furniture Exchange For free pick up of large donations only email fx@mit.edu or call (617) 253-4293. Drop-off good items at 350 Brookline St, Cambridge, Tues/Thurs 10am-4pm and 1st Saturday of the month 10am-1pm. No mattresses, box springs, drop-side cribs, used stuffed animals, or old TVs. For free pickup use their online form or call (888) 322-8209. Drop-off good items at Savers in West Roxbury, 1230 Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway, Mon-Sat 9am-9pm, Sun 10am-7pm. Open hours: 9am-2pm: Tue, Wed, Fri and Sat 978-441-WISH (9474)
Accepts clean, stain-free mattresses and beds including bunk beds trundle sets, toddler beds, cribs (fixed side), cots. No king sized and no platform beds. Directions to 1A Foundry St, Lowell: Route 3 to 495 to Lowell Connector to Plain St. south for 0.4 miles. Turn Right Foundry St. If you’ve totally put this off till the last minute and can’t arrange for a heroic pick up, you have other options: Sell or give good-condition stuff away for free at Craig’s List or Freecycle. Postings are free, most do better with a photo. Last resort, put a “Curb Alert” notice on Craig’s List with a photo, noting what time it will be at the curb for trash collection (no earlier than 6pm the day before), an exact location and you’ll be shocked how quickly it’ll disappear! The city trash crews will pick up ONE piece of furniture per week. Remember, it’s heading to the landfill or incinerator if you choose this route, so, if it’s usable and is in good condition, please see what you can do to arrange a rescue!
If it’s a ripped, torn, stained, about-to-fall-apart mess…unfortunately it probably is trash! How can we help you? Cambridge citizen requests, now online & on the go! Find the answer in our extensiveFrequently Asked Questions Get Rid of It Right Compost Yard Waste and Food Scraps 358A Broadway, Rte 1 N Saugus, MA 01906781-233-6599 Saugus's La-Z-Boy furniture store provides an array of home furniture for you to choose from. 8232-29 Sam Moore Caraleen Sofa Sam Moore 'Caraleen' 2-Cushion sofa in Located at the Hanover store 15562-1 Queen 4 Poster Bed In Cherry Queen 4 poster bed in cherry. 66" Wide x 89" Deep x 82" High Welcome to Furniture Consignment Gallery! Welcome to the online showroom for Furniture Consignment Gallery. Between our three stores, we have 40,000 square feet of retail showroom space filled with New England's finest pre-owned furniture and home accessories. Our location in Hanover, MA has been in business since 1993.
Our location in South Plymouth opened in 2013 and is an 11,000 square foot showroom. We recently transitioned out of our Chestnut Hill store into a much larger space on Route 9 in Natick. Our showrooms feature merchandise that has a perfect blend of modern styles, top quality contemporary and traditional upscale furnishings Find a local business City OR zip code Find Local Businesses in Massachusetts Showing Used Furniture in Taunton, MA Showing 1 to 20 of 38 listings found Bear Brown's Trading Post 16 South Washington Street, North Attleborough, MA 02760 478 S Main St, Fall River, MA 02721 356 South Ave Ste 1, Roycroft's Used Furniture & Bric-A-Brac American Family Thrift Inc Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 Ortega Furniture and Bargain Outlet Newton Center, MA 02459 Newton Centre, MA 02459 Marcia & Bea Antiques Newton Highlands, MA 02461 Advertise your business with us. They’re bulky, springy, and a challenge to compress, making them notoriously hard to discard.
Mattresses have long been the bane of landfills, where they take up a disproportionate amount of space. Their metal coils also damage shredding equipment that breaks up trash before it’s burned at incinerators. Now, with landfills in Massachusetts rapidly running out of space and municipalities paying higher prices to dump their garbage, environmental officials are prodding cities and towns to recycle many of the estimated 600,000 mattresses that state residents trash every year.“We want municipalities to treat mattresses like recycling an aluminum can, so they see why it would be a waste to throw them away,” said Greg Cooper, who oversees recycling for the state Department of Environmental Protection. Thank you for signing up! Sign up for more newsletters here About 85 percent of the contents of a mattress and its box springs — the coils, foam, cotton, wood — can be recycled. In an effort to spur a new recycling market and to save municipalities money, environmental officials soon plan to announce about $500,000 in grants to help cities and towns start mattress-recycling programs.
This summer, they signed contracts to pay three companies up to $13 per mattress to collect the old beds and recycle them.About two-thirds of the state’s discarded mattresses are now collected and shipped out of state by companies that deliver new beds to customers and take away their old ones. That leaves about 200,000 a year unloaded at the state’s landfills and incinerators, officials say. Within five years, they expect at least 50,000 of those to be recycled in Massachusetts. As many as 20 million mattresses and box springs are discarded every year in the United States, about half the number that are sold, according to the Mattress Recycling Council, a Virginia-based nonprofit created by the mattress industry.Mattress companies used to burn old beds in bonfires. Now, they dispose of about half of their old mattresses in incinerators or ship them to states with less-expensive landfills. They refurbish the rest for resale or donate them to charities.In recent years, states have pushed companies to recycle more of their old mattresses.
In May, Connecticut became the first state to require companies to collect a fee on every sale of a mattress or box spring to subsidize a statewide recycling program. Next year, California and Rhode Island will start similar programs, and other states are considering comparable laws.“The mattress industry has been looking at recycling for a long time, but it’s taken a while to get to the point where the cost of the labor to break them down makes sense,” said Amanda Wall, a spokeswoman for the Mattress Recycling Council.Recycling companies face significant costs.Officials at UTEC, one of the three contractors hired by the state, said they would need to recycle 40,000 mattresses to break even. That is many times more than they collected last year, when UTEC started its program and lost money. The nonprofit youth organization expects to break even by 2017, especially if it can expand its supply by working with colleges, hotels, and hospitals. ‘We think it’s the right thing to do for the environment, while providing meaningful jobs to our young people.’
“We think it’s the right thing to do for the environment, while providing meaningful jobs to our young people,” said Gregg Croteau, executive director of UTEC.In Massachusetts, officials hope the grants and new contracts will generate enough volume to make mattress recycling a viable business and boost the state’s relatively low recycling rate. The state recycles only about 45 percent of its commercial and residential waste.They expect cities and towns to recognize the financial benefits of recycling, especially because landfills charge a premium for dumping bulky items like mattresses.Recycling more mattresses would also help curb greenhouse gases, according to a 2012 study by the State of California. Most of that environmental benefit comes from reusing the metal springs as scrap metal, converting the polyurethane foam into carpet padding, and shredding the wood frames of box springs into mulch.Massachusetts has some of the highest solid waste disposal rates in the country — between $55 and $80 a ton, compared with a national average of $45 a ton — and the fees are expected to rise as landfills run out of space.
In just the past three years, the state’s landfill capacity has dropped nearly 30 percent. Over the next five years, state officials expect the landfill capacity to drop by more than half.“Mattresses are a real problem for municipal solid waste management,” Cooper said. “It’s expensive to throw mattresses away.”Cambridge is one of the nearly 50 municipalities in Massachusetts that have sought one of the state grants to set up a mattress recycling program. Officials there hope to cut thousands of dollars from their trash costs by recycling an estimated 2,500 mattresses and 1,250 box springs a year.Like much of the area, Cambridge experiences a surge in discarded mattress at this time of year, when students return and many rental apartments change hands. Residents are allowed to throw out one mattress a week, which garbage trucks haul away with the rest of the trash. If they receive a state grant, the money would pay for their recycling program for two years, at most. Afterward, officials plan to charge residents $25 to trash mattresses, as they do with refrigerators and other bulky waste, said Randi Mail, the city’s recycling director.