How to get rid of a mattress in Kent, 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.

• Kent's set-out window and its scavenging rule are both in the ordinance, and both catch a mattress left at the curb. Codified Ordinance 933.03: "Each container placed at the curb or alley as designated above, and each other item set out for collection, shall be placed at the location no earlier than 7:00 p.m. of the day before collection" - the phrase "each other item" carries the window onto a bulk item, not just a can. Containers must come back in "by 7:00 p.m. the day collection has taken place." Section 933.19 makes the mattress the city's property once it hits the curb: "Upon the placement of refuse, solid waste, garbage, rubbish and trash at a designated location for collection by the City' Refuse Contractor, the material shall become the property of the City", and it is a violation for anyone other than the resident, the contractor or named city staff "to collect, pick up, or cause to be collected or picked up" that material, with "Each such collection in violation hereof shall constitute a separate and distinct offense." Dumping is handled by 933.07, which bars depositing refuse "on any vacant lot, public thoroughfare or street or any public place". The penalty under 933.99 is a fine of "not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00)", with each successive day a separate offense, appealable to the Director of Public Service or the Health Commissioner. Source Not confirmed: The code sets no apartment or homeowners association rule for bulk items; multifamily buildings of four or more units fall outside the city contract entirely and arrange their own collection. Not confirmed: The city's garbage ordinances page links documents titled "Kent Adopts Stricter Trash Regulations" and a trash violation flowchart, which were not read; whether either sets a separate curbside penalty schedule is not 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