How to get rid of a mattress in Hudson, 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.

• Hudson's municipal code confirms, in the plainest way available, that the city has never legislated a collection of its own. Chapter 1072, titled "Garbage and Rubbish Collection and Disposal", carries no rules at all: "There are no sections in Chapter 1072. This chapter has been established to provide a place for cross references and any future legislation." Its editor's note records only that Resolution 99-129, passed October 6, 1999, adopted the Solid Waste Management Plan, Three-Year Update, for the Summit/Akron Solid Waste Management District, and that Resolution 03-157, passed September 17, 2003, readopted the plan for the Summit/Akron Solid Waste Management Authority. The chapter's cross references send a reader to Chapter 848 for refuse haulers and to § 660.16 for littering. The published code is the 2026 S-22 supplement. Source
• What Hudson regulates instead is the haulers. Codified Ordinance § 848.02: "Effective sixty days after the enactment of this chapter and continuing thereafter, each private refuse hauler operating within the Municipality must be licensed by the City and shall be required to provide a curbside pick-up collection program for its single-family, two-family and multi-family residential customers, with separation of recyclable materials and including a recycling program as defined herein. Residents have the option to recycle through participation in the curbside recycling program or use of a centralized recycling station." The duty the city imposes on a licensed hauler reaches multi-family buildings by name, which is the opposite of what the preferred hauler's own brochure says about apartments and condominium associations being handled outside the city contract. The section dates from Ord. 93-13, passed March 15, 1993 and Ord. 08-34, passed December 17, 2008. Source Not confirmed: The licensing section requires a curbside collection program but says nothing about bulk items or mattresses, so it does not establish any bulk allowance for a hauler other than the preferred one.
• Hudson's dumping rule is § 660.16, and it names furniture outright. "(a) No person shall place or dispose of, or permit another to place or dispose of, in any manner any garbage, waste or peelings of vegetables or fruits, rubbish, ashes, cans, bottles, wire, paper, cartons, boxes, parts of automobiles, wagons, furniture, glass, oil or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature along or near or on any public road, street, parkway, park drive, highway, ditch or any land adjoining any public street or highway or ditch, except on land provided by the Planning Commission, by ordinance or by other governmental authority, unless directed to do so by public officials on special clean-up days." Subsection (c)(1) adds that "No person shall place, or permit another to place, any refuse in any street, alley or other public place, or upon any private property, whether owned by such person or not, unless it is in proper containers for collection or under express approval granted by the Manager", and (c)(2) declares that "Any unauthorized accumulation of refuse on any premises is hereby declared to be a nuisance and is prohibited." The section's own definition of RUBBISH includes "bedding". The penalty is set in subsection (e): "Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree." The section comes from Ord. 76-28, passed July 19, 1976. Source Not confirmed: The section grades the offense but publishes no dollar figure, so no fine amount is established from Hudson's own code. Not confirmed: No mattress recycler, Bye Bye Mattress collection site, retailer take-back, resident drop-off site or local reuse outlet specific to Hudson was established.

• 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