That's the reason many donation stores will not take anything upholstered, bed bugs. I tried to donate my new mattress to Habitat and Salvation Army. Habitat would not take it. In fact the woman I talked to was actually snobby. She said it was illegal in the state of NJ to take a donated mattress but they will take them from a company with a LLC. Don't know why. So I arranged for a pick up from a specific company and they came, wrapped the mattress and away it went. Got the credit for it the same day. They took it to Habitat.
