How to get rid of a mattress in Brook Park, 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.

• Beyond the monthly bulk run, Brook Park gives each household a named annual allowance for clearing a house out, which none of the other five cities in this group publishes: "SPECIAL PICK-UP LARGE VOLUME - The City will provide (2) special pick-ups per year per home for City residents. Special pick-ups consist of house, garage and move out cleanouts of household trash and bulk items. Please call the Service Department at 216-433-7189 to schedule a special pick-up." Two a year, per home, residents only, booked by phone - and squarely aimed at the move-out pile that Parma Heights refuses to touch. For anyone emptying a bedroom or a whole house of bedding, that is the more useful of Brook Park's two routes. The city also attaches an ordinance to the tidying-up duty rather than to the set-out time: "EMPTY CONTAINERS must be removed from the tree lawn the same day that collection is made. Failure to do so can result in a citation and fine (ORD.#933.04)" - the same day, not the twelve hours South Euclid allows or the twenty-four hours Mayfield Heights allows. Carts must go out no earlier than 5 p.m. the day before collection and no later than 5 a.m. on the day, and must stand at least 3 feet apart for the truck's mechanical arm. The city issues the containers and does not collect loose material: "All rubbish must be placed inside the City approved containers. Rubbish will not be collected if not in approved containers," and other containers "such as standard plastic, galvanized cans or laundry baskets are not acceptable and will not be emptied." The document explains the limits rather than just asserting them: "weight and size limits are imposed as a safety measure for our employees and also due to the size of opening on our collection truck." One caution about this document: its yard waste season is given as April 15 through November 14, 2014, and the call-in requirement it states for Bulk Mondays has since been suspended by the Service Department, so its dated schedule has been overtaken even though its standing rules are still the city's posted Rules and Regulations. Source Not confirmed: No fee is published for a Special Pick-Up Large Volume, nor any charge for a third one in the same year once the two-per-home allowance is used Not confirmed: No volume, weight or item cap is published for a Special Pick-Up, and "Large Volume" is not defined Not confirmed: The notice period for booking a Special Pick-Up is not published, only the phone number Not confirmed: The Rubbish Collection Rules and Regulations carry internal dates from 2014 and describe a Bulk Monday call-in that the Service Department has since suspended, so which of its clauses remain in force is not fully established Not confirmed: The text of Ordinance 933.04 was not read, so the amount of the fine for leaving containers out past the day of collection is not established

• 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