How to get rid of a mattress in Groveport, 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.

• Groveport's Codified Ordinances answer a question most towns leave open: a resident here may not arrange their own hauler. Chapter 951, Garbage and Refuse Collection, Ordinance 41-92, passed December 14, 1992, and carried in the code as amended through the 2026-01 version, says at Section 951.10(e): "All householders or owners as defined in Section 951.01 shall utilize the franchise service for refuse and garbage collection unless written permission is granted by the Administrator." The franchised hauler is required to run the route: Section 951.08 provides that "The private hauler shall make at least one regular weekly collection of garbage and refuse at all residences within his/her prescribed territory", and under 951.09 that hauler must submit its routes and schedules to the Administrator for approval or modification. The city does not set the price. Section 951.10(a) says "The franchisee shall do its own billing and collecting. The rate per month will be that which is established by the bid of the successful franchisee. The bid may contain an escalating clause entitling the franchisee to an annual increase, upon approval of Council, on the anniversary of the franchise to adequately compensate the franchisee for increases in the cost of fuel for motorized equipment and increases in landfill charges." No figure appears anywhere in the chapter. An account unpaid 45 days past the due date may have service discontinued, after a Final Notice of Payment served by certified mail. Section 951.10(d) leaves the detail to the Administrator, who "shall have the authority to promulgate rules and regulations pertaining to the collection of all refuse and garbage within the City limits". Hauling trash from multiple dwellings or commercial premises, or hauling trash for hire at all, requires a city license at one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year under Sections 951.11 and 951.12. The chapter's definition of "Refuse" or "rubbish" at 951.01(b) is illustrative rather than exhaustive - "non-putrescible, non-liquid wastes, such as ashes, cinders, tin cans, glass, bottles, rags, wastepaper, wood and paper boxes, grass, tree and shrub trimmings, leaves, furniture, rugs, refrigerators, stoves, washers, hot water heaters, Christmas trees and miscellaneous household items" - so the absence of a mattress from that list settles nothing either way. Source Not confirmed: The code commits Groveport households to the franchised hauler's service and to a monthly rate set by that hauler's winning bid, but sets no figure itself and the chapter contains no fee schedule, so no price is established and the collection must not be read as free. Not confirmed: Chapter 951 contains no bulk, large-item or mattress provision at all: it regulates containers, haulers and billing and is silent on how an item too large for a container is collected. Not confirmed: The City of Groveport's own Trash, Recycling & Yard Waste Collection page could not be read during this pass, so the current franchised hauler, the collection day and any published bulk or mattress rules of the city's were not established from a primary source.
• Groveport's set-out window and container rules are fixed by ordinance rather than by the hauler. Section 951.07(a) of the Codified Ordinances, Ordinance 41-92, passed December 14, 1992, provides: "Each householder shall provide a sufficient number of metal or other leak proof containers with tight fitting lids with a maximum capacity of not more than thirty gallons for storage or garbage. Refuse shall be placed in containers which shall not exceed fifty pounds in weight when filled. Newspapers, magazines or other loose materials shall be placed in closed containers or securely bundled. All such containers shall be taken to the curb no sooner than the day before collection unless because of sanitary, safety or other factors, the Administrator designates that such containers shall be placed at the rear, or elsewhere on the lot. After collection of garbage and refuse, the householder shall within twelve hours return such containers to the rear or other inconspicuous location on the lot." Subsection (b) allows plastic disposal bags in place of containers "at the option of the householder", provided they are at least one and one-half millimeters (.015 inches) thick, have no holes or openings except for filling, are securely tied, and do not exceed fifty pounds. The practical effect for anyone getting rid of bedding is that the code's only quantified limits - a thirty gallon container and a fifty pound load - describe containerized refuse, and a mattress fits neither, while the twelve-hour rule for returning containers and the one-day-before rule for setting them out are enforceable city requirements rather than hauler preferences. Source Not confirmed: Section 951.07 governs containers and bags only. It states no rule for an item that cannot be containerized, so no set-out window, wrapping requirement or booking step for a mattress is established from the Groveport code.

• 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