Mattress and furniture disposal in Toronto and the GTA, city by city

How do I get rid of a mattress or a sofa in the GTA and Kitchener-Waterloo?

Put it at the curb, if you live in a house. Every municipality in this guide collects mattresses and upholstered furniture from houses. What changes from city to city is the day, the item limit, the wrapping rule and what happens to a fridge. The table is the short version, as the official pages read in November 2026.

How to get rid of large furniture in Toronto

Set it out beside your garbage bin on garbage day. The City of Toronto collects oversized and metal items from houses with no appointment: mattresses, box springs, furniture and appliances. Leave half a metre between items. Tie a sofa bed frame so it cannot spring open. Take the doors off a fridge or an oven.

In a condo or an apartment there is no curb. The City tells residents to ask the building manager where furniture and appliances go, and to take a mattress to the building's designated area for oversized items.

The public drop-off is a Drop-Off Depot. Mattresses are accepted at two depots only, Commissioners Street and Dufferin (Vanley Crescent, North York), and a fee by weight applies. A sofa on the nineteenth floor, with the elevator booked for an hour, is a job for junk removal in Toronto.

How to get rid of old furniture in Mississauga and Brampton

Put it on the curb by 7 a.m. on your regular garbage day. Peel Region collects bulky items, furniture and mattresses included, at no charge, in both cities. The City of Brampton and the City of Mississauga each take over their own collection on October 1, 2027, so check again after that date.

Appliances are the exception. Peel no longer collects large metal appliances at the curb. A fridge, a freezer, an air conditioner, a stove, a washer or a dryer goes to a Community Recycling Centre, where appliances are accepted at no charge.

There are Community Recycling Centres on Chrysler Drive and Railside Drive in Brampton, and on Battleford Road and Fewster Drive in Mississauga. A mattress or a sofa is accepted there, and a drop-off fee applies. If you live in a condo or an apartment, Peel's instruction is to contact your property management. If the building has no answer, we do junk removal in Mississauga and junk removal in Brampton, from our yard on 6 Tracey Blvd.

How do I dispose of furniture in the City of Vaughan?

Put it out on your garbage day, which comes every other week. The City of Vaughan counts large items such as furniture and mattresses in its three-item garbage limit, and anything past three needs a paid tag. Keep the piece dry. Nothing over 68 kilograms (150 pounds). A sofa bed goes out with the mattress removed and the frame tied.

Appliances and large metal items are collected by appointment only, for a fee. The other route is York Region's McCleary Court Community Environmental Centre, at 130 McCleary Court. Metal appliances are accepted there at no cost. A fridge or a freezer is accepted at no cost only with a CFC removal sticker, which shows the refrigerant is already out. Without it, a fee per unit applies.

In a condo, residents cannot book. Vaughan collects bulky items from multi-residential buildings by appointment only, the property manager makes the request online, and there is no fee. If that is too slow for your date, ask us about junk removal in Vaughan.

How to get rid of a mattress or a couch in Oakville and Burlington

Put it out with your garbage, every other week, three bulk items at most. Halton Region collects bulk waste in both towns: couches, chairs, tables, mattresses and box springs. A mattress or a box spring must be wrapped in plastic, not in a tarp.

Metal and appliances are not bulk waste in Halton. They are collected by appointment only, requested online or through 311, and the Region says collection may take two to three weeks from the request.

The drop-off is the Halton Waste Management Site, at 5400 Regional Road 25 in Milton, where the Region charges by the load or by weight. Its Reuse Depot does not take furniture, used mattresses or large appliances. In a condo or an apartment, ask the property manager how the building handles bulk items. We do junk removal in Oakville and junk removal in Burlington when the date will not wait.

How to get rid of a mattress or a sofa in Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge

Wait for your bulky item day, which comes once a month. The Region of Waterloo collects bulky items and appliances from eligible households: three items per single family home, six per duplex. Couches and chairs up to six feet long. A mattress comes off the bed frame, and each piece counts as one item.

A fridge or a freezer goes to the curb on the same day, emptied and taped shut. The Region's Waste Whiz tool says the Freon does not have to be removed first.

Curbside service covers houses, duplexes and small buildings of six units or fewer. In anything larger, ask the landlord or the property manager. The Region runs two waste management sites, at 201 Savage Drive in Cambridge and at 925 Erb Street West (Gate 2) in Waterloo. Fees apply to all loads, and a CFC removal fee applies to some appliances. If a month is too long before your closing date, ask us about junk removal in Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge.

Can I donate a mattress or a sofa?

A sofa, often. A mattress, rarely. Charities take what they can give away or sell, so the piece has to be in a state someone else would accept. Halton Region's sorting tool puts it plainly: because of bed bugs, most reuse centres cannot accept mattresses. Here is what four charities say on their own sites.

• Habitat for Humanity GTA ReStore. Takes furniture and appliances in saleable condition. Does not take mattresses, box springs or sofa beds, or anything stained, damaged or incomplete. Curbside pick-up of qualifying donations is free, and in a condo that means the loading bay. A pick-up fee applies inside the home. You send photos first. This is the affiliate for Toronto, Brampton, Caledon, York Region and Durham Region. In Mississauga and in Halton Region (Oakville, Burlington) the ReStores belong to a different Habitat affiliate, which charges a fee for a residential pick-up.
• Furniture Bank. Collects sofas, mattresses, bed frames and dressers from inside the home, in Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Oakville, Burlington, Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge among others. A pick-up fee applies and a tax receipt is issued. Ask it about condition before you book.
• The Salvation Army Thrift Store. Does not accept furniture, mattresses or large appliances, and does not offer pick-up. It takes clothing, housewares and small appliances at its Donor Welcome Centres.
• Diabetes Canada. Picks up clothing, bedding and small household items from the doorstep, bagged or boxed, under 40 pounds each. No furniture, no beds, no large appliances.

If you are clearing a house before a move, start early. ReStore recommends booking a pick-up at least ten days ahead, which is one more argument for downsizing before moving.

What do I do with a mattress that has bed bugs?

Wrap it before it leaves the room. Health Canada says to wrap an infested bed in plastic, tape the edges, and put a sign on it so nobody takes the problem home. Toronto asks for the same at the curb, wrapped completely in plastic and set out on collection day, and suggests slashing or defacing it so it cannot be reused. Toronto's depots want mattresses unwrapped, except infested ones. Halton wants every mattress wrapped in plastic, bed bugs or not. An infested mattress is not a donation. If a crew is coming, tell them before the day.

When does a crew make sense?

When the curb does not work for you.

• No curb. A condo, an apartment, a building with no place for a mattress.
• Stairs. A sofa in a basement, a fridge on the second floor, nobody to carry it.
• A deadline. A closing, a listing, a new bed arriving on Thursday.
• A whole room. More than the three items most of these municipalities take at once.

Mattress removal, couch removal, furniture removal, appliance removal: for us they are one job, junk removal, done by our own crew, on moving day or on its own. It is billed by the hour. You get an hourly rate and a crew size before the crew comes, and you pay for the hours it took. A photo on WhatsApp is enough for a first answer. For what the market charges by the truckload, read junk removal cost in Toronto and the GTA. If the furniture is moving with you instead, start with our movers in Mississauga.