How to get rid of a mattress in Massillon, 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.

• Massillon runs no collection crew and says so plainly: the city "does not have a waste collection department". A Massillon household arranges its own refuse service with a private company, and the city's Trash Service page exists only to list the companies licensed to operate inside the city: Kimble at 800-201-0005, Republic at 800-247-3644, Waste Management at 800-963-4776, Spencer & White at 330-832-8509, Toles & Son at 330-832-5813, and 3-D Sanitation at 330-232-3099. Kimble is the one the city has an arrangement with - the city's Trash and Recycling page says "The city currently contracts with Kimble Co. for trash and recycling services" and that residents inside the city limits who take trash service with Kimble "will receive discounted rates". So there is no Massillon bulk-item program, no city allowance, no city voucher and no city clean-up day for a mattress, and no city-published price for taking one away: what a Massillon reader pays is whatever their own hauler charges. The city is at 151 Lincoln Way East, Massillon, Ohio 44646. Source Not confirmed: The city publishes no figure for the Kimble discounted resident rate, and no rate card for any of the six listed haulers, so the cost of refuse service in Massillon is not established. Not confirmed: Neither city page names a mattress or states any hauler's bulk item allowance, notice period or wrapping rule, so the terms on which a Massillon household's own hauler would take a mattress are not established. Not confirmed: The city does not say whether the five haulers other than Kimble are licensed under Chapter 965 or on what terms, and publishes no license list.
• Massillon's Codified Ordinances Chapter 965, "Rules and Regulations for Refuse and/or Solid Waste Collectors" (current code 2026-01), is where the city's real mattress answer lives, and it is a set of rules binding the private haulers residents actually use rather than a city service. Three things in it matter to someone with a mattress. First, a mattress is refuse by the city's own definition: § 965.01(b) defines "Rubbish" as "clean paper (no traces of vegetable or animal matter), newspapers, rags, cardboard, glass, porcelain, crockery, clothing, furniture, appliances, mattresses, plastics, metal and aluminum cans, bricks, cement blocks, wood, ashed and household items that will not readily decompose", and excludes "any earth, sand, stone or other similar natural substances that may be the result of a construction or remodeling project". Second, there is a weight cap: § 965.03(a) says "Capacity of containers for garbage and rubbish shall not exceed fifty pounds in gross weight including contents", and a mattress runs 50 to 100 pounds, so a queen will sit at or over the limit. Third, there is a set-out window a reader can be fined for missing: § 965.03(c) says "Garbage/rubbish in bags or containers shall not be placed for collection earlier than 6:00 P.M. on the day before scheduled collection and no garbage/rubbish or containers (empty or full) shall remain at the curb, tree lawn, sidewalk or front yard area for more than twenty-four (24) hours." The chapter also binds collection hours: § 965.06(c) says "NO garbage/rubbish collection shall be made before the hour of 7:00 A.M. or after the hour of 9:00 P.M.", applying to residential and commercial areas alike, and "NO collection shall be made on Sunday, unless granted permission by the Director of Public Service and Safety." Section 965.08 requires all garbage to be collected and removed "at least once each week" and all "rubbish" to be collected and removed "at least once every two weeks". All sections cited passed as Ordinance 86-99 on May 17, 1999. Source Not confirmed: The fifty-pound container cap in § 965.03(a) is written for cans and containers, and the code does not say how it applies to a single large item such as a mattress set out loose, so whether a hauler may refuse a queen mattress on weight is not established. Not confirmed: The code sets no wrapping or bagging requirement for a mattress, and names no bulk item or large item collection at all.
• Massillon's code still carries a priced city refuse service that the city's own current pages say it does not operate, and the gap between the two is the finding. Codified Ordinances § 965.09 reads as though the city collects: "For garbage and rubbish collected and removed, the Director of Public Service and Safety on behalf of the City shall make a monthly charge of: (1) Sixteen dollars and fifty cents ($16.50) per month for each single family residence or unit for weekly service. (2) Weekly service shall be limited to five units of trash or garbage in plastic bags no larger than thirty gallons. Bags or containers must not weigh in excess of fifty pounds." Over the five-unit limit, "Any quantity over the weekly limit of five units will be billed at a minimum fifty cents ($.50) per unit", payable quarterly in advance on the twenty-fifth of January, April, July and October, with a ten percent penalty after the due date. The section then prices large items directly. Subsection (d) says "An additional charge shall be incurred for pickup upon prior arrangements of additional items not generally characterized as garbage or rubbish except automotive or building materials which will not be picked up at all. (Example: Major appliances - approved; auto transmission - unapproved; construction brick - unapproved; furniture - approved.)" Subsection (e)(1) then sets the figure: "Ten dollars ($10.00) for each major appliance, piece of furniture, mattress or box springs." Subsection (e)(2) prices a "Special clean-up of trash: Ten dollars ($10.00) for ten bags or boxes not weighing over fifty pounds each plus one dollar ($1.00) per bag or box over ten", and (e)(3) leaves "Other large quantities or extraordinary circumstances" to be "determined on an individual basis". These figures are in the current code, but the City of Massillon's own Trash Service page states the city "does not have a waste collection department" and directs residents to private companies, so no reader should be quoted the ten-dollar mattress charge as the price they will pay. It is a charge the code authorizes for a municipal collection the city does not publish itself as running. Source Not confirmed: The city does not reconcile § 965.09 with its statement that it has no waste collection department, and publishes no repeal, no amendment and no notice explaining whether the $16.50 monthly rate or the $10.00 per mattress charge is still levied by anyone. No price has been recorded for Massillon on this evidence. Not confirmed: If the $10.00 charge is administered by a contracted hauler rather than the city, the code does not say so and no hauler page confirms it. Not confirmed: No booking channel, notice period or set-out instruction is given for the § 965.09(d) "prior arrangements" a large item requires.

• 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