How to get rid of a mattress in Columbiana, 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.

• Columbiana, Ohio - the city of about 6,800 at 28 West Friend Street, Columbiana, OH 44408, reachable at 330-482-2173, which straddles Columbiana and Mahoning counties and is not the same body as Columbiana County - runs no refuse collection, and its garbage chapter is three sections long because there is no service to describe. Chapter 1060, "Garbage and Rubbish Collection and Disposal", consists of § 1060.01 Hours of collection, § 1060.02 Joint Solid Waste Management District and § 1060.03 Recycling site, and nothing else. The only operative rule for a resident regulates the private haulers they hire: § 1060.01 says "No person, proprietorship, partnership, corporation or other such firm engaged in the collection of garbage and trash in residential districts within the municipality, excluding the following described locations, shall engage in the collection of garbage or trash between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the following day, daily", with two named exceptions, "(a) Columbiana Manor Apartments" and "(b) Camelot Apartments" (Ordinance 92-O-1311, passed August 18, 1992). Section 1060.02 does no more than approve the Carroll-Columbiana-Harrison Joint Solid Waste Management District's amended solid waste management plan under Ohio R.C. 3734.54. The chapter sets no collection program, no mandatory subscription, no rate, no allowance, no bulk item rule, no set-out window and no wrapping rule, and never names a mattress. The city's own departments bear this out: Columbiana publishes pages for Water, Waste Water, Electric and Streets but none for trash or refuse, and its Street Department's listed services are pothole filling, removing a dead animal from the road, street sweeping and clearing a downed tree from the roadway. So a Columbiana household arranges collection privately, and the city publishes no price for taking a mattress away. Code current through the 2025 S-16 supplement. Source Not confirmed: The city publishes no list of licensed or permitted private haulers and no licensing requirement for them, so a resident cannot tell from the city which companies collect in Columbiana or what they charge for a mattress. Not confirmed: Chapter 1060 never names a mattress or any bulk item, so the code establishes neither acceptance nor refusal. Not confirmed: Columbiana sets collection hours but no set-out window, so how long a wrapped mattress may stand at the curb before collection is not established.
• The one waste facility inside Columbiana's limits is a recycling site the city hosts for the county district rather than operates, and the city publishes nothing to suggest it takes a mattress. Codified Ordinance § 1060.03 is the authority for it: it empowers the City Manager "to execute an agreement with the Carroll-Columbiana-Harrison Joint Solid Waste Management District, 618 B Canton Road, Carrollton, Ohio 44615 for the purpose of permitting the use of a site located at 31 West Park Avenue, Columbiana for a recycling site", and provides that the district "shall be deemed to be an independent contractor providing services for the City of Columbiana", with the city assuming no responsibility for its employees and requiring indemnity (Ordinance 04-O-2157, passed November 2, 2004). So the address a Columbiana resident would drive to is 31 West Park Avenue, and the body answerable for what is accepted there is the Carroll-Columbiana-Harrison district, not the city. The ordinance itself lists no accepted or refused materials, sets no hours and sets no fee, and the city publishes no page for the site at all. Nothing in the city's own material names a mattress, bedding or furniture as accepted at 31 West Park Avenue, and the absence is a gap in what Columbiana publishes rather than a refusal in its own words. Source Not confirmed: Neither the ordinance nor any city page lists the materials accepted at the 31 West Park Avenue recycling site, its opening hours, its eligibility rule or any fee, so the site is not established as a route for a mattress and has not been recorded as a usable drop-off. Not confirmed: The ordinance authorizing the agreement dates from 2004 and the city publishes no confirmation that the site is still open or still operated by the district.

• 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