How to get rid of a mattress in Harrington Park, NJ.

Companies that come to your home and carry the mattress out, so you need no vehicle. The prices below are starting prices unless stated — stairs, box springs and extra items add to them.

Most charities will not take a used mattress. These are the ones we checked, including the ones that say no.

• The Salvation Army (satruck.org): accepted-items list includes 'Mattresses' and beds; also says local ordinances and need vary by location and to call 1-800-SA-TRUCK to confirm what a local center accepts. Source
• Doesn’t take mattresses. Habitat for Humanity national ReStore guide: 'Mattresses and box springs are not accepted.' Source

Policies vary by branch. Call before you carry one over — we asked each of the big three directly: Goodwill, the Salvation Army and Habitat for Humanity.

What we established about this city in particular — including where it runs nothing of its own and residents have to look elsewhere.

• Harrington Park changes its garbage frequency with the calendar and publishes only two curbside collections beyond it, neither of which reaches a mattress. The Borough's Public Works page sets garbage at "Once per week from 11/1-3/31 (Wednesdays)" and "Twice per week from 4/1-10/31 (Wednesdays & Saturdays)", identically for 2025 and 2026. Recycling is on Thursdays, moving to Friday after a holiday — in 2026, "1/2 (day after New Years), 11/27 (day after Thanksgiving)". Garden refuse and yard waste run Mondays from April 1 to October 31 and cover "grass clippings, weeds, flowers, small limbs and small branches". The only bulky collections the Borough names are metal and electronics: "Call for curbside collection by DPW for all white metal goods (ex: appliances, weight/exercise machines, metal lawn furniture and metal parts of swing sets)" and "DPW also picks up electronics at your curb-Computer equipment, TVs, Microwaves, DVD players, etc." There is no bulky waste, bulk trash or large-item collection on the page, and no mattress rule. The DPW Superintendent is Steven Nappi at 66 Schraalenburgh Road, telephone 201-768-0944; Borough Hall is at 85 Harriot Avenue, Harrington Park, NJ 07640, telephone 201-768-1700. This is Harrington Park in Bergen County, New Jersey, adjoining Norwood and Old Tappan. Source Not confirmed: The Borough publishes no bulky item or large-item collection, so whether a mattress can be set out at all, and on what day, is not established. Not confirmed: A search of the Borough of Harrington Park code for "mattress" returned no results, and the code's only bulky waste reference is § 291-41, the exception in the stormwater chapter's refuse container article for "Large bulky items (e.g., furniture, bound carpet" and the like, which exempts them from the container requirement rather than scheduling their collection. The code sets no bulk collection program. Not confirmed: No fee, cap or booking step for bulky items is published because no such collection is published.
• Harrington Park's Penn Street Recycling Center keeps hours most municipal drop-offs do not — it is open continuously for most of the week — and it publishes a closed list of what it takes. The Borough gives the hours as "Opens Monday Morning 8am and open 24hours daily until Saturdays at 4pm", which leaves it open around the clock from Monday morning through Saturday afternoon and closed only on Sunday. The accepted list is introduced as exhaustive — "Collection of the following ONLY:" — and runs: glass containers separated by color; aluminum cans; tin; steel; junk mail and magazines; newspaper; plastics; cardboard with boxes broken down flat; clothing collection bins; and waste motor oil. A mattress is not on that list, and on a list headed ONLY there is no catch-all for it. The center is named for Penn Street; the Borough's Public Works contact address is 66 Schraalenburgh Road and Borough Hall is 85 Harriot Avenue. Source Not confirmed: The Borough gives the center's street as Penn Street without a house number, so no full street address could be established. Not confirmed: No proof-of-residency rule, permit or fee is published for the Penn Street Recycling Center. Not confirmed: Mattresses are absent from a list headed "Collection of the following ONLY" rather than printed under a refusal heading, so this is recorded as an absence from a closed list, not as a published refusal.

• NJDEP County/Municipal Recycling Coordinator Locator lists municipal (updated August 2026) and county (updated July 2026) coordinator contacts. No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on NJDEP pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress collection is handled by counties/municipalities. Source