How to get rid of a mattress in Canfield, 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.

• Canfield runs no municipal trash collection at all, and says so plainly on its own Waste Collection & Recycling page: "Waste collection services are available through a number of different private waste collection providers in the area. Residents are responsible for selecting their waste collection service provider." There is no single city hauler, no city contract rate, no city bulk item allowance and no city fee, so the terms on which a Canfield mattress is collected are whatever the resident's own chosen hauler sets, and will differ house to house. The only waste service the city itself arranges is recycling, and it is not collected at the curb: "Recycling is provided by the Mahoning County Green Team. Recycling bins are available for pickup from City Hall, located at 104 Lisbon St. Canfield, OH 44406." A Canfield resident looking for a municipal bulky waste pickup, a city clean-up day or a city drop-off will not find one. Source Not confirmed: Because collection is by whichever private hauler each household chooses, no bulk item price, allowance or mattress rule can be established for Canfield as a city Not confirmed: The city does not publish the list of haulers licensed to operate in Canfield, so a resident cannot tell from the city's own pages which providers are eligible under Chapter 943
• Canfield leaves collection to private haulers but restricts it to licensed ones, which narrows a resident's choices for getting a mattress taken away. Codified Ordinance 943.08 provides that "No person, firm, partnership or corporation, except a duly authorized law enforcement officer or a duly licensed garbage and rubbish collector, shall examine, inspect, canvas, go through, explore, probe, sift, scrutinize, collect, transport or dispose of any garbage, rubbish, or refuse within the Municipality." (Ord. 2004-19. Passed 6-2-04.) Section 943.99 sets the penalties: "(a) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this chapter for which no other penalty is provided shall be fined not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for the first offense and not more than three hundred dollars ($300.00) for the second or succeeding violations. (b) Whoever, not having a license to do so, violates Section 943.08 within the City shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree." Chapter 943 Garbage and Rubbish also provides for collection by contractors at Section 943.03, licensing of collectors at Section 943.06 and regulations for licensees at Section 943.07. Section 943.02 requires every occupant to provide watertight covered cans of not less than ten and not more than thirty gallons for a private dwelling, kept on the premises, emptied by the collectors at least once each week, and provides that "No can or receptacle for receiving garbage or waste matter shall be placed on or in any street, alley, sidewalk, footpath or any public place whatsoever, except in accordance with rules and regulations established under this chapter." (Ord. 1952-20. Passed 8-4-52.) Source Not confirmed: The Section 943.01 definitions of "Garbage", "Rubbish" and "Waste matter" date from 1952 and name no mattresses, box springs or furniture, so the code neither includes nor excludes bedding from what a licensed collector handles Not confirmed: Sections 943.03, 943.06 and 943.07 were not read in full, so the license fee, the required collection frequency for licensees and any bulk item condition the city imposes on them are not on record Not confirmed: The code sets no set-out time window or curbside removal deadline that was found for Canfield

• 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