How to get rid of a mattress in Heath, 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.

• Heath has no municipal refuse collection to speak of, and the gap is visible in two places at once. The city's website runs departments for the Auditor, Building and Zoning, City Council, Fire, Mayor, Parks and Recreation, Police, Streets, Tax and Utilities, and not one page on it mentions trash, refuse, garbage, recycling or bulk items; the Streets page covers snow removal and mailbox damage, and Utilities covers water and sewer, with 2026 water and sewer rates published and no refuse rate alongside them. The code says the same thing by omission. Part Nine of the Codified Ordinances, Streets, Utilities and Public Services, lists Chapters 905 Sidewalks, 909 Excavations, 913 Weeds, 921 General Water and Sewer Regulations, 925 Water, 929 Sewers, 933 Sewer Use and Industrial Pretreatment, 937 User Charges and Sewer Fees, 941 Cross-Connection Control, 943 Illicit Discharge, 945 Use of Public Ways by Service Providers and 951 Parks - there is no refuse collection chapter. Part Seven, Business Regulation, licenses transient merchants, junk shops, taxicabs, canvassers, pawnbrokers, secondhand dealers, security alarms, game rooms and food trucks, and does not license garbage haulers. The local legislation is current through July 1, 2026. So a Heath household arranges its own hauler and the city neither collects, contracts nor sets a rate; City Hall is at 1287 Hebron Road, 740-522-1420. Source Not confirmed: This is an absence established from the city's published departments and from the chapter lists of two Parts of the code, not a statement by the city that it runs no collection. No Heath page says so in words. Not confirmed: Because the city neither contracts nor licenses haulers, no mattress price for Heath could be established from any municipal source.
• What Heath does legislate is how long the mattress may stand outside, and its code names the item. Codified Ordinance 521.08(a)(3) defines "Refuse" as "ashes, crockery, bottles, cans, paper and other wood pulp products, boxes, rags, grass clippings and other cut vegetation, old or discarded clothing, bedding mattresses, furniture, appliances, rubbish, stone, sand, dirt, nails, pieces of glass, oil, and all other similar nonputrescible wastes" - a discarded mattress is refuse in Heath by name. Section 521.08(b)(4)A then sets the clock: "Items defined as 'Junk, Refuse, Trash and Rubbish' cannot be stored outside for more than seven days and must be neatly stacked or placed in structurally stable containers in a manner preventing displacement by weather, animals or uncontrolled activities." Letting it sit is a public nuisance under 521.08(b)(1), which covers "The accumulation, storage or disposition of garbage or refuse in any a manner other than as provided by this Code". Abatement under (e) runs by notice in person or by certified mail giving ten days to house the refuse in a garage or other suitable structure or remove it from the property, after which "each subsequent period of thirty days that garbage, junk, refuse or a junk motor vehicle continues to be so left constitutes a separate offense". Hauling it yourself carries its own rule: under (g) no person may transport refuse "unless such vehicle shall be properly equipped with a cover, lid, tarpaulin or enclosure designed effectively to prevent such transported materials from spilling or falling". Littering and spillage are a fourth-degree misdemeanor on a first offense, rising to third and then second degree; other violations of the section start as a minor misdemeanor. The definitions come from Ordinance 56-87 and Ordinance 57-87, both passed September 8, 1987, and the container limits from Ordinance 27-2008, passed May 19, 2008. Source Not confirmed: The code sets a seven-day limit and a stacking requirement but no curbside set-out window tied to a collection day, because the city runs no collection day. Not confirmed: Section 521.08(b)(4)B caps a single-family dwelling's garbage container at one-half cubic yard and allows a container larger than one cubic yard only once a year for up to thirty days; the code does not say whether a mattress set beside the container counts against that.

• 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