Mooveapalooza

• St. Vinny’s will accept clothes, small household items, books, and other small items View St. Vinny’s acceptable donations list
• Habitat for Humanity will accept furniture, tools, and other larger items View Habitat for Humanity’s acceptable donations list

How to Donate Items

Bag or Box Your Small Stuff

For small items, like clothes, accessories, and so on, put them into bags or boxes. Your items will be going into a truck that needs to be carefully loaded and unloaded.  When you put them into a box or a bag, it makes the whole process faster & safer.

Clean the Items (Please)

Clean your items before donating. This includes furniture, decor, and so on that could use a good dusting. It doesn’t have to be perfectly shined up like new, but let’s not leave an inch of dust on the stuff either. Remember, you are donating to non-profit organizations. If they need to spend resources cleaning your donations, it subtracts from their mission. So please, if you can, a quick wash or a wipe down is very much appreciated.

Mattress Recycling

7 Rivers Recycling from La Crosse, Wisconsin will be offering mattress recycling at the Moooveapoolza event.

In order to recycle your mattress with them, there is a charge of $20 per mattress or box spring. For example, if you bring one mattress & one box spring to this event for recycling, your total charge will be $40. Mattress recycling is only available when you take your mattress and/or box spring to this special event. The payment goes directly to 7 Rivers Recycling.

Rules & Information for Mattress Recycling at Moooveapoolza

• All mattresses & box springs must be dry
• Remove all sheets, covers, and other bedding before dropping off your mattress or box spring for recycling
• Futon mattresses will be accepted
• Memory foam mattresses will be accepted
• All mattress sizes and box springs will be accepted and charged the same price (crib mattresses up to king)
• Mattresses & box springs that are stained with human body fluids, extremely smelly, moldy, or otherwise extremely soiled will not be accepted.
• Mattresses & box springs infested with bugs or other animals will not be accepted

Why is there a charge for mattress recycling at this event? 

This is special. It is different than how mattresses and box springs are usually handled in Madison. Currently, when these are collected by the City of Madison are not recycled. They are sent to the Dane County landfill, where they are a problem. To recycle a mattress, it requires a lot of labor to manually separate the foam from the spring, and fuel costs to haul the mattresses. 7 Rivers Recycling requires the payment to pay for the extra labor and cost associated with reclaiming these materials.