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

The DKMM Solid Waste District — the joint solid waste district of Delaware, Knox, Marion and Morrow counties and the statutory authority here — answers "Mattress" on its Other Disposal Options page with a single link to its Bulk Items page, and that page names this station for Delaware County: "Delaware County Transfer Station, (operated by Rumpke) 892 U.S. Rt. 42 North, Delaware, Ohio 43015 800-828-8171 Ext 7344." The district frames the category as trash — "If an item has met the end of its useful life and cannot be reused or recycled, it should be properly disposed of as trash" — and offers the station as the fallback when a hauler will not take the item: "Many trash collection companies will pick up a large bulk item as long as you call ahead and schedule a pickup. If your trash collection company does not offer this service, below are other options that the item can be taken to." Rumpke's own page for the site gives the address as 888 U.S. 42, Delaware, OH 43015, phone (740) 369-7700, open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. The Delaware Public Health District's county recycling guide gives 888 U.S. Rt. 42 N, Mondays through Fridays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays 8 a.m. to noon, and says the station "Accepts garbage, non-freon appliances, and tires." No price is published for a mattress or for anything else at the site.

Not confirmed: No mattress price is published; the district says only "Hours and fees vary" and to call the site before going.

Not confirmed: The primary sources disagree on the street number, 892 versus 888 U.S. Route 42 North, and on the weekday closing time, 4:30 p.m. per Rumpke against 5 p.m. in the Delaware Public Health District guide, which is dated August 2022.

Not confirmed: No residency rule or identification requirement is published, so whether residents of other counties may use the station is not established.

Not confirmed: Whether a mattress taken here is landfilled or recycled is not stated; the district calls the category trash disposal.

Not confirmed: Rumpke's own page does not list accepted items for this site, saying only that "many of our transfer station facilities accept refuse and recycling drop-offs," and neither Rumpke nor the health district guide names a mattress.

From the provider’s own page, checked Nov 7, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.

DKMM Solid Waste District — Bulk Items

Open Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and closed on New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Loads are weighed and trash is charged by weight. The station will not accept, in the words of Section 937.12(b) as amended in March 2025, "brick, block, shingles, lumber over 4' in length, dirt, liquids, or large automotive parts", and the city's own page adds batteries, shingles, concrete, block, brick, dirt, gravel or mulch, lumber longer than 4 feet including landscaping timbers, liquids, metal auto or truck parts, and metal pipes. Bedding appears on neither refusal list. Appliances are priced separately at $10.00 non-Freon and $15.00 Freon, and tires at $10.00 for a passenger car tire, $20.00 for a light or heavy truck tire and $100.00 for a tractor tire. Payment is by cash, check or credit card, with a processing fee on cards; a charge account may be opened at the superintendent's discretion and carries 1.5 percent a month on balances thirty days past the statement closing date. Self-service compost is available to residents, who must weigh in before loading and check in at the scale house.

Not confirmed: There is no mattress line on the rate card. A mattress is none of the separately priced categories, so what a household pays is whatever the by-weight trash bracket comes to

Not confirmed: Neither the city page nor the ordinance says what proof of residence in the four-county district the station asks for

Not confirmed: Nothing published says whether anything taken in at the station is recycled rather than landfilled, beyond the compost the city gives back

From the provider’s own page, checked Nov 6, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.

City of Lancaster, Ohio — Transfer Station

City of Lancaster Permanent Ordinance 13-25 (Temporary 9-25), repealing and replacing Codified Ordinance Chapter 937 - Waste Removal, with Exhibit A