How to get rid of a mattress in New Carlisle, 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.

• New Carlisle's ordinance sets a 24-hour window on each side of collection and leaves the rate schedule to Council approval of whatever the permitted collector files. Codified Ordinances Section 1060.13 provides that "Garbage and refuse receptacles shall be placed for collection at the alley line, where possible, and at the curb line, where necessary, no more than 24 hours before collection and receptacles must be removed no later than 24 hours after collection", that "Garbage bags shall be sealed and refuse receptacles shall be tightly closed so as to avoid loose trash blowing about", and that placement is the responsibility of the householder or commercial operator. Section 1060.10 explains how the published monthly rates come to exist: "A person seeking a permit for the collection of garbage and refuse shall file with Council the maximum rate schedule such person wishes to use. Before the issuance of such a permit, Council shall approve the maximum rate schedule and such schedule shall remain in force until changed by Council." Payment "shall be payable in advance and shall be made by the householder not later than the tenth of the month", and a class of service arising after approval "shall be charged for in accordance with the discretion of the permittee until such time as Council can approve the rate for such type or class of service" - which is the mechanism under which an unlisted charge could appear. Section 1060.12 requires that householders "have their garbage removed for disposal at least once each week" and relieves the permittee of any duty to collect from anyone in arrears for one month. Sections 1060.10, 1060.12 and 1060.13 derive from Ordinance 63-3, passed January 21, 1963. Source Not confirmed: Section 1060.13 is written about receptacles and does not say where or how an item too large for a receptacle, such as a mattress, is to be placed. Not confirmed: Section 1060.10 lets the permittee set a charge at its own discretion for a class of service Council has not yet priced, so a bulk charge outside the published cart rates could exist without appearing on the city's rate page.
• There is a tension worth flagging in New Carlisle between what the city's page promises and how its ordinance defines the material, and the honest answer is that the page governs in practice while the code has never been updated to match. Codified Ordinances Section 1060.01(f) defines "Refuse" as "ashes, glass, crockery, tin cans, paper, boxes, rags and old clothing, bottles, grass cuttings, hedge cuttings, carpeting that is bundled and tied and not exceeding three square feet in cross sectional area per bundle, tree trimmings that are bundled and tied and not exceeding three square feet in cross sectional area per bundle, trees and tree limbs that are under thirty-six inches in length, whole Christmas trees, leaves and other household discards that will fit into authorized containers and all similar nonputrescible wastes" - a definition that closes on items that fit into authorized containers, which a mattress does not. Section 1060.15 then provides that "No permittee acting under this chapter shall be required to collect and dispose of any material which does not qualify as garbage or refuse as defined in Section 1060.01", while allowing that the provision "shall not prohibit a person from hauling debris not defined as garbage or refuse." So the ordinance does not oblige the collector to take a mattress, and the definitions date from Ordinance 81-71, passed December 28, 1981. Against that, the city's own current Waste & Recycling page names mattresses and box springs among the bulk items Rumpke collects weekly within a three-item allowance. The practical reading is that the service the city publishes is wider than the minimum its ordinance requires, which is good news for a resident - but it means the mattress collection rests on the published service terms rather than on a duty the code imposes. Section 1060.01(f) also carries a rule worth knowing in its own right: carpeting counts as refuse only when bundled and tied to no more than three square feet in cross section. Source Not confirmed: The code's refuse definition excludes what will not fit an authorized container and Section 1060.15 relieves the permittee of any duty to take it, while the city's page names mattresses as collected; no source reconciles the two, so whether the mattress collection is contractually guaranteed is not established. Not confirmed: The chapter does not define a bulk item or set a bulk allowance, so the three-item weekly limit is established only from the city's page.

• 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