How to get rid of a mattress in Ocean City, MD.

If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.

Casper

Free

Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. Source

Purple

Free

Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source

Raymour & Flanigan

Free

New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source

Rooms To Go

Free

New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Ocean City and its neighbors.

• Worcester County prices the permit that makes mattress disposal free: "The Convenience Stations are for Worcester County homeowners and rental tenants only with proper permit. No commercial haulers allowed. Convenience Station permits are $100.00 for the first two vehicles in the same household. Additional permits are $100.00 each. Permits must be affixed to each vehicle and permit must match tag number. Permits are issued each year by January 1, and will expire December 31. There is no pro-rating of fees." The cheaper alternative does not reach a mattress: the Pay As You Throw prepaid bag tags are "For bagged household trash only from Worcester County households" at "$1.00 each for bags up to 33 gallons", sold in sheets of five. Permits are sold at the Treasurer's Office in Snow Hill, the Isle of Wight office in Bishopville, and the Central Landfill in Newark. "Disposal of all recyclables is free. A permit/tag or tipping fee is not required." Source Not confirmed: The county does not publish a minimum scale charge at the Central Landfill for someone without a homeowner permit, nor a per-item mattress price for that case — only the per-ton rate.
• Worcester County's Solid Waste page repeats the rule in its own words — "Bulk items, such as furniture and appliances, must be disposed of at the Central Landfill" — and gives the rate for anyone without a homeowner permit: "There is a tipping fee of $80 per ton for household trash and $80 per ton for demolition and construction materials disposed at the Central Landfill. Usage of the County Landfill scales is operated through a pay-as-you-go or commercial account." The four sites are the Central Landfill, 7091 Central Site Lane, Newark (Mon-Sat 7:30am-4:00pm, "Central Site will not accept anything needing to go up on the hill after 3:45 PM each day"); Berlin Homeowners Convenience Center, 9636 Mill Haven Road, Berlin; Snow Hill Homeowners Convenience Center, Holly Rd behind Tyson Feed Mill, Snow Hill; and Pocomoke City Homeowners Convenience Center, Byrd Rd, Pocomoke City — the three convenience centers open 7:30am-5:30pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 1:00pm-5:00pm Sunday, closed Wednesdays. Source Not confirmed: The Solid Waste page gives Central Landfill hours as 7:30am-4:00pm while the 2026 permit rules give 8:00am-4:00pm; the county publishes both. Not confirmed: No minimum charge is published for a load weighed across the Central Landfill scales.
• Not an option: The convenience center nearest most Worcester County residents will turn a mattress away. Rule 5 of the county's 2026 homeowner permit conditions reads: "The following are accepted at the Berlin, Snow Hill, & Pocomoke Convenience Centers: household trash and recyclables only. Yard waste is only accepted at the Pocomoke Convenience Center and the Central Landfill. DUMP TRUCKS and DUMP TRAILERS will not be allowed to utilize the homeowner convenience centers." Rule 7 sends bulk items including mattresses to the Central Landfill in Newark instead. So a Berlin resident holding a $100 permit, standing at a convenience center two miles from home, still has to drive about twelve miles to Newark; for Ocean City the trip is longer again. The permit makes the disposal free, but only at the one site. Source
• Not an option: Habitat for Humanity of Worcester County's ReStore, 11307 Manklin Creek Road, Ocean Pines, MD 21811, refuses mattresses by name. Its "What We Accept" table lists "Mattresses" in the "No, thanks!" column, alongside baby cribs, clothing, used drapes, box televisions, firearms, hot water heaters, propane tanks and single-pane windows; the "Yes, please!" column takes appliances, cabinets, doors, furniture, hardware, housewares, lighting, plumbing, tools and windows. "Everyone is welcome to donate their new or gently used items", with drop-off during store hours and a "Minimum $40 pickup fee" for collection. Recorded so a reader does not load a mattress into a car for a wasted trip. Source
• Worcester County runs no collection. Its Solid Waste page describes the division's work as staffing the drop-off network — "Employees travel to the homeowner convenience stations within the County to remove all refuse brought in that day. It is then carried to the Central Landfill" — and the whole published service is the annual homeowner permit or the Pay As You Throw bag tag, both of which a resident uses by driving to a county site. No county bulky-item pickup, voucher, amnesty or free dump day is published. Source Not confirmed: The county publishes no denial that it collects bulky items; the absence is inferred from pages describing drop-off only. Not confirmed: Ocean City's own seasonal bulk collection, if any, is a town program and was not researched at the county layer.