How to get rid of a mattress in East Liverpool, 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.

• Not an option: East Liverpool bars a mattress from its curb by name. Section 933.05(c)(3) of Chapter 933, Garbage and Refuse Collection, under the heading "Special Refuse Problems", reads: "Televisions, computers monitors, computers, other electronic devices, refrigerators, freezers, florescent bulbs, stoves, mattresses and springs shall not be placed for regular collection but shall be disposed of as directed by the Director of Service-Safety and at the expense of the owner or possessor thereof." The provision is from Ordinance 41, 2007, passed October 15, 2007. A household that sets a mattress out with the regular trash is therefore outside the city service it already pays for, and the code puts both the route and the cost on the resident without naming either. Section 933.99 makes a violation of any provision of the chapter a minor misdemeanor for a first offense and a misdemeanor of the fourth degree for a second or subsequent offense, or forfeiture of the violator's license, or both. Source Not confirmed: The code does not say what the Director of Service-Safety actually directs a household to do with a mattress, and no city page publishes that direction Not confirmed: No figure is published for the expense the owner is told to bear Not confirmed: The American Legal Publishing copy of the East Liverpool code is marked complete to April 3, 2017, so a later amendment would not appear in it
• The collection a mattress is shut out of is the city's own, run by its Department of Public Service-Safety. Section 933.05(a)(1) says "Refuse accumulated by residences shall be collected at least once every two weeks", and 933.05(b)(1) limits the quantity: "No more than four (4) containers of rubbish and/or garbage and two (2) bundles of yard waste shall be placed for pickup each week." Containers are provided by the householder, not the city, and under 933.04(c)(7) "All containers set out for collection shall have a capacity not to exceed thirty (30) gallons and shall not exceed fifty (50) pounds each and shall be watertight" (Ord. 41-2007). Rubbish containers must be "of such weight that they can be handled by one man", with reasonable weight not exceeding fifty pounds. Tree trimmings and hedge clippings must be cut to no more than four feet and tied in bundles not more than two feet thick. Under 933.08(g) receptacles may be placed outside for collection on the evening prior to pickup, and 933.08(f) requires all trash receptacles to be returned within the owner's premises the same day waste is collected, "or the owner or occupant thereof shall be subject to arrest and fine". Section 933.06(a) sets the residential fee at an annual "$274.80 for refuse collection by the City, payable in monthly installments of $22.90 beginning August 1, 2016" (Ord. 64, 2016), billed quarterly, with service liable to be stopped where an account is two or more months in arrears. One definition is worth noting against the mattress exclusion: 933.01(j) defines "Rubbish" to include "bedding" among paper, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass and crockery - but 933.05(c)(3) separately pulls mattresses and springs out of regular collection. Source Not confirmed: The code publishes no bulky item, large item or special pickup program, no allowance, and no fee a household could pay to have a mattress taken by the city Not confirmed: The $274.80 annual rate in the online code is the 2016 figure; the city's council passed an increase in September 2025 that the published code does not yet carry Not confirmed: Section 933.01(j) lists "bedding" inside its definition of "rubbish" without explaining it, and the code does not say whether it means linens or the bed itself
• The city publishes nothing about its own collection beyond a phone number. The City of East Liverpool's Refuse department page carries a contact - William Jones, Service-Safety Director, (330) 386-6584 - and office hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with lunch from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., closed on weekends. There is no collection schedule, no accepted or excluded items list, no container limit, no rate, no set-out time and no bulky item instructions anywhere on it. For a household trying to find out what to do with a mattress, the only published answer in East Liverpool is the one in Section 933.05(c)(3) of the codified ordinances, which excludes mattresses and springs from regular collection and sends the resident to the Director at the resident's own expense. Source Not confirmed: The city site publishes no refuse schedule, rate sheet, accepted items list or bulky item page of any kind Not confirmed: No city page states the Director's standing direction for disposing of a mattress

• 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