How to get rid of a mattress in Beachwood, OH.

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.

• Beachwood collects with its own Public Works crews - no contracted hauler anywhere in the picture - and it is the only city in this group that publishes a price list for carts while publishing none for the trash itself. The city's page says "The City of Beachwood will deliver one free rubbish cart and one free recycling cart to each household", and sets prices for more, listed as "96-Gallon Rubbish can" at $80.00 and "64-Gallon Recycling can" at $70.00, payable by cash, check or credit card, in person, by mail or by phone at 216-292-1922. Carts "need to be placed three feet apart from each other or on either side of the driveway and away from any obstructions." The set-out rule is attributed to Ordinance 660.21 and bars a resident from placing carts for collection before 6:00 PM the evening preceding the collection day or after 7:30 AM on the day of collection, and from leaving empty containers or other non-collectible items at the place of collection after 9:00 AM the day after. Scavenging is forbidden outright: "rubbish scavenging is prohibited within the City of Beachwood." Public Works offers one brush pickup a week, with branches and limbs "a maximum of 6 feet in length" and logs "a maximum of 3 feet long and a maximum of 35 pounds". On a holiday week other than Thanksgiving, "rubbish collection will be delayed one day after the respective holiday for that week only"; Thanksgiving collection is moved up to the Wednesday before. Public Works is at 216-292-1922. Source Not confirmed: The page publishes prices for extra carts but no monthly, quarterly or annual residential trash charge, and no fee for a bulk item or a special collection. It does not state that collection is free either. Not confirmed: The page does not mention a mattress, a bulk item or an item limit; those rules are in the city's separate Rubbish Collection Information document.
• Beachwood is the only city of the six that publishes the actual dollar figure behind its trash penalty rather than only the degree of the offense. The city's Rubbish Collection Information sheet states that whoever violates the Section 660.21 set-out rules "is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree" and that "Punishment shall be as provided in Section 698.02." Section 698.02, which the city publishes in full, supplies the numbers. At subsection (a)(2)D, the fine for "a misdemeanor of the fourth degree" is "not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00)", and subsection (a)(2)E sets a minor misdemeanor at "not more than one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00)". At subsection (b)(1)D, the jail term for a fourth-degree misdemeanor is "not more than thirty days". Subsection (c) is the catch-all: "Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this General Offenses Code, including any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to authority granted in this General Offenses Code, for which no penalty is otherwise provided, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree", which carries a fine of up to $1,000 and up to 180 days. The general code penalty is from Ordinance 1973-147, passed December 17, 1973. So putting a mattress out before 6:00 PM the night before collection in Beachwood exposes a resident to a fine of up to $250 and up to thirty days. Source Not confirmed: Section 698.02 sets the penalties by degree of offense but says nothing about trash, a mattress or wrapping. The fourth-degree classification for a set-out violation comes from the city's own summary of Section 660.21, and the full text of 660.21 was not read. Not confirmed: No separate penalty is published for failing to encase a mattress in sealed plastic, as distinct from setting it out at the wrong hour.

• Primary names Harvard Avenue Transfer Station at 3227 Harvard Ave, Newburgh Heights OH 44105; district calls it Harvard Road at 3227 Harvard Road. Same number, city and operator support an identity candidate, but street suffix discrepancy retained. Source
• Hamilton municipal FAQ says transfer-station large-item intake Monday–Saturday. Existing Rumpke operator-locator staging record 07c7c0690194a830d775d57e lists Monday–Friday 8am–3:45pm at the same 1000 N Third Street address and phone 513-867-8661. This is an hours discrepancy, not grounds to merge unrelated branches. Source
• Ohio EPA Solid Waste Management District Locator (GIS app): select a county to see its Solid Waste Management District; the underlying layer covers all 88 counties. SWMDs are the local contact for recycling and disposal. Source
• Ohio EPA's "Where to Recycle" page names the three statewide tools it offers residents: the Ohio EPA Recycling Directory (a searchable directory of service providers who volunteered to be listed), the solid waste management district locator map, and the Ohio Materials Marketplace for businesses. It states that recycling and litter prevention activities are controlled locally through the county's solid waste management district, which "can help with information such as ... where to take hard to recycle items". Note the agency site now serves these pages under the /wps/portal/gov/epa/ path; the bare /divisions-and-offices/... URLs 404 when requested directly. Source
• The Ohio EPA Recycling Directory is hosted on RecycleSearch (Re-TRAC) and is searchable by free text or by pre-set material categories after setting a location. Its own text says results may include curbside recycling programs, drop-off recycling locations, reuse stores and other service providers, and that listing is not an endorsement. Its FAQ states the directory "is in the process of being populated" and that some areas of the state may have no information available, directing residents to their local solid waste management district instead. Listings are managed by Ohio EPA and the districts. Source
• No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on Ohio EPA pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments and county solid waste management districts. The agency's own site search for "mattress" returns only 4 resources, none of them mattress-related (Revised Total Coliform Rule, Underground Injection Control, operator exam information and a Trauma Scene Clean-Up fact sheet). The Materials and Waste Management division pages cover solid waste, infectious waste, scrap tires and C&DD, with no mattress or bulky-item program. Source
• Mattress Recycling Council's Program States page names exactly four program states — California, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Oregon. Ohio is not among them, confirming there is no MRC-run mattress stewardship program or Bye Bye Mattress free drop-off network in Ohio. Source