How to get rid of a mattress in Middleburg Heights, 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.

• Middleburg Heights sets no set-out hour at all - just a day - which makes it the loosest curbside window of the six cities here. Codified Ordinances Section 660.24, Deposit of Material for Collection, from Ordinance 1977-61 passed May 10, 1977, reads: "(a) No person whose refuse is collected by the City, shall place or cause to be placed garbage, rubbish, refuse or trash in the front yard, upon the tree lawn or upon the street at any time earlier than the day prior to the date of scheduled refuse collection by the City. (b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor." So a mattress may legally go out any time on the Sunday before a Monday collection, with no evening hour to wait for, where Bay Village forbids anything before 5:00 p.m. and Berea before 4:30 p.m. The ordinance also sets no deadline for taking containers back in, unlike Berea's 10 a.m. and Bay Village's 8:00 a.m. the day after. The section applies only to a person "whose refuse is collected by the City". Setting out earlier than the day before is a minor misdemeanor. Source Not confirmed: Section 660.24 states no fine figure for the minor misdemeanor, and the city's general penalty chapter was not read. Not confirmed: The section imposes no deadline for removing emptied containers from the curb, so no such rule is established for Middleburg Heights.
• Middleburg Heights has no garbage and trash collection chapter in its code, which is why its mattress rule lives in a mailed guide rather than in an ordinance. Part Nine of the Codified Ordinances, the Streets and Public Services Code, lists its chapters in full: under Title One, Street Openings, Sidewalks, Trees, Use of Public Ways by Service Providers, Master Street Tree Plan, Driveways, Use of Public Ways for Small Cell Wireless Facilities and Wireless Support Structures, and Small Cell Design Guidelines; under Title Three, Public Services, the chapters are Sewers and Sewage, Woodvale Union Cemetery, Use of City Property, Water, Electrical Transmission, Snow Removal for Senior Citizens and/or Disabled Residents of the City, City Jail, and Emergency Medical Service. There is no chapter on refuse, garbage, trash or solid waste collection anywhere in the part, and no collection rate, bulk allowance or bulk fee is set by ordinance. The city's rules on a mattress rest instead on the Department of Public Service's published Recycling & Solid Waste Guide, with the one ordinance-backed rule being the set-out day in General Offenses Section 660.24. Contrast Berea, whose Chapter 321 gives its published rules the force of law, and Brecksville, whose Chapter 917 carries a fine of up to $500. Source Not confirmed: This records what the Part Nine chapter list contains and that no refuse collection chapter appears in it. It is an absence from the part's own table of contents, not a statement by the city that it has no such ordinance, and a collection provision could sit in another part of the code that was not read. Not confirmed: Because no ordinance sets a collection rate, no monthly or quarterly charge for Middleburg Heights trash collection is established, and the guide publishes none either.

• 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