How to get rid of a mattress in Lancaster, OH.

If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.

Casper

Free

Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. Source

Purple

Free

Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source

Raymour & Flanigan

Free

New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source

Rooms To Go

Free

New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Lancaster and its neighbors.

• Fairfield County publishes an itemized disposal directory in Fairfield County's Residential Recycling Guide 2026, and against the heading "Mattresses" it prints exactly one option and nothing else: "Lancaster City Transfer Station: 740-687-6660". No second outlet, no recycler, no county facility, no fee. The county owns no landfill, transfer station or convenience center of its own — the guide's own disposal entries point outward to city and private operators, naming the Lancaster City Transfer Station again under Appliances "(non-Freon and Freon)", Helium Tanks and Yard Waste, and Pine Grove Landfill under Yard Waste. What the county does run is a recycling program with 23 drop-off locations, listed as "23 Convenient Residential Recycling Locations" across Lancaster, Pickerington and the townships, and that program will not take a mattress or any part of one: "Furniture" is printed in its UNACCEPTED MATERIALS list, and the accepted list runs only to aluminum and steel cans, number 1 and number 2 plastic, glass bottles and jars at marked sites, newspaper, office paper, corrugated cardboard and paperboard. The directory also carries the county's own disclaimer on every page — "**The following are listed for informational purposes only. Call for services and pricing.**" — and at the end, "These companies are listed for informational purposes only. Fairfield County does not endorse any of these entities nor their services." The guide's contact for all of it is the Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Recycling & Litter Prevention Program, 1761 E. Main St. Lancaster, OH 43130, 740-687-1295. Source Not confirmed: The county publishes no fee for a mattress and tells the reader to call, so no price can be taken from the guide Not confirmed: The guide gives the Lancaster City Transfer Station only as a telephone number and no street address, and does not say whether a resident of Pickerington or any other Fairfield County town may use a city-owned station Not confirmed: The guide names no county free dump day, amnesty event or voucher program for bulky items
• The single facility Fairfield County's guide points a mattress at is city-owned, and the City of Lancaster's own transfer station page carries the rate card, effective January 1, 2024. There is no mattress line on it. Trash is priced by weight — "0 to 999 pounds: $30.00" and "1,000 pounds or more: $55.00 per ton" — with tires at "$10.00" for a passenger car and "$20.00" for a light or heavy truck, and appliances at "$10.00" non-Freon and "$15.00" Freon. A mattress is none of those named categories, so the published schedule sets no charge specific to it, and $30.00 is simply the floor of the trash bracket a load under half a ton falls in. Mattresses are not excluded either: the page's "Materials Not Accepted" list runs "Batteries", "Shingles", "Concrete, Block, Brick, Dirt, Gravel, or Mulch", "Lumber longer than 4ft (no landscaping timbers)", "Liquids", "Metal Auto/Truck Parts" and "Metal Pipes", and bedding appears nowhere in it. "The Transfer Station accepts cash, check or credit card (processing fee) for payment." The station is closed on eleven named holidays from New Year's Day through Christmas Day. The only address and hours on the page belong to the Sanitation Department that runs it — 743 S Ewing Street, Lancaster, OH 43130, 740-687-6660, Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Source Not confirmed: The page publishes no street address for the transfer station itself, only the Sanitation Department's office address, so the facility cannot be placed on a map from this source Not confirmed: The page states no residency rule at all — it does not say whether the station is open to Lancaster residents only, to Fairfield County residents, or to all comers, which is the one thing a Pickerington reader needs Not confirmed: The page sets no mattress-specific fee, so the charge for one mattress is not published; it must not be read as $30.00 without the city confirming the category Not confirmed: A line reading "Light truck or passenger car:" sits under the fee list with no figure beside it, so the vehicle-based charge it introduces is incomplete on the page Not confirmed: The station's own opening hours are not distinguished from the Sanitation Department's office hours Not confirmed: Whether a mattress taken here is landfilled or recovered is not stated
• Fairfield County collects nothing from anybody's curb. The 2026 guide is the county's complete published account of waste and recycling services, and it contains no county or district bulky-item, large-item or clean-up collection of any kind — no program, no eligibility, no fee, no booking line, and no annual free pickup. Where the guide covers collection at all it lists private companies under "Waste & Recycling Haulers" with the instruction "Call for services & pricing": AJW Sanitation, BSS Waste Disposal, Buckeye Hauling Disposal, Glass City Recycling, Lancaster City Sanitation, Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Recycling, Local Waste Services, Micro Roll Off, Republic Waste Services, Rumpke, Trace's Sanitation and Waste Management. Curbside recycling is likewise farmed out, listed as "Glass City Recycling (Lancaster)", "Rumpke (Pickerington)" and "Local Waste Services". Collection in this county is therefore a town-by-town or hauler-by-hauler matter: the City of Lancaster runs its own sanitation and publishes its own bulk pickup, and Pickerington has its own arrangement, but neither is the county's answer and neither is written up here — each belongs on its own city page. Source Not confirmed: No county or district collection exists to price, book or bound, so there is no county fee, allowance, item limit or notice period to record Not confirmed: The guide lists haulers without saying which towns each serves or whether any of them takes a mattress
• Not an option: No mattress recycler is published anywhere in Fairfield County. The county's 2026 guide is organized as an alphabetical recycling directory — it finds a named outlet for antifreeze, automobiles, appliances, alkaline and lead-acid and rechargeable batteries, building supplies, cardboard, cell phones, clothing, computer equipment, demolition debris, documents, fluorescent bulbs, glass, household hazardous waste, helium tanks, industrial materials, ink cartridges, medical equipment, mercury thermostats, motor oil, televisions, vapes and yard waste. Under "Mattresses" the single entry it can offer is a transfer station for disposal, "Lancaster City Transfer Station: 740-687-6660", and the guide claims no recovery of any kind for the item. The county's own recycling program excludes the material outright, printing "Furniture" in its UNACCEPTED MATERIALS list, and the only hard-to-recycle stream it has added is the Hefty ReNew orange bag program at the Lancaster recycling center, which covers "plastics #3-#7, styrofoam, fast food cups, plastic straws and more" in a purchased bag and nothing bulky. Scrap metal is handled separately at the recycling center's drive-thru and scrap lane, Monday through Friday 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, which is the one route by which a metal bed frame could be recovered. Source Not confirmed: The guide does not say whether a metal bed frame is accepted in the recycling center's scrap metal lane; scrap metal is accepted there but bed frames are not named Not confirmed: The guide does not say what becomes of a mattress taken to the Lancaster City Transfer Station
• Fairfield County publishes a reuse list for exactly the category a mattress belongs to, and a mattress is not on it. Under "Furniture & Household Items" the 2026 guide names five outlets — "Goodwill: 740-654-5150 (Lancaster), 614-751-3766 (Pickerington)", "Ohio Thrift: 740-808-8819", "Restore: 740-654-3434", "Salvation Army: 740-687-1921" and "St. Vincent De Paul: 740-653-6037" — and none of the five is offered for bedding. The guide instead gives mattresses their own separate heading pointing only at a transfer station, which is the county telling the reader, by where it filed the item, that it knows of no charity in the county that will take one. The Restore entry is the one place the guide spells out a scope, and it stops short of bedding: elsewhere it reads "Restore: 740-654-3434 (Accepts new/gently used building supplies, appliances, or furniture that can be reused)". Every entry carries the standing instruction "Call for services and pricing" and the county's disclaimer that it "does not endorse any of these entities nor their services." Source Not confirmed: Mattresses are absent from the county's furniture reuse list rather than named as refused by it, so this is a gap and not a published refusal — none of the five outlets has been checked against its own donation policy here Not confirmed: The guide names no furniture bank in Fairfield County
• Fairfield County does not have a solid waste district of its own. It is one of four counties in the CFLP Solid Waste District — Coshocton, Fairfield, Licking and Perry — which the district describes as the government agency that oversees how solid waste is managed in its member counties and provides the funding. The work on the ground in Fairfield County is done by the Recycling & Litter Prevention program of the Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Agency, whose office is at 1761 East Main Street, Lancaster, Ohio, open Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, with the "Recycling Scrap Metal & Drive Thru Lane" open Monday through Friday from 9:00am to 2:00pm, telephone (740) 687-1295. Everything the district page offers is recycling, education, volunteering and litter cleanup; it describes no disposal facility, no transfer station, no landfill and no collection service of its own, which is consistent with a funding-and-planning district rather than an operating one. One contraction in the program's own drop-off network is published: the College View Residential Recycling Host Site at 7698 Oberlin Court, Lancaster closed effective June 26, and the program is looking for a replacement host site in western Fairfield County. Source Not confirmed: The district page does not give the year the College View host site closed, only "effective June 26th" Not confirmed: The district page does not say whether the district funds any disposal or bulky-item service in any of its four counties Not confirmed: Whether a program run in Coshocton, Licking or Perry County under the same district is open to a Fairfield County household is not stated