How to get rid of a mattress in Newark, 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.

• Newark, Ohio runs no municipal trash collection at all, and its own code says so by making every household hire a hauler. Section 1860.041(a) of the Codified Ordinances: "The owner, tenant, lessee, occupant or person otherwise in control of every residential property within the City, including houses, mobile homes, apartments, condominiums and the like, when such are used exclusively for residence purposes, either temporary or permanent and consisting of four separate dwelling units or less, shall be responsible for contracting with and paying for the services of a refuse hauler, or solid waste disposal enterprise, licensed by the Director of Public Service pursuant to Sections 1860.06 et seq. of this chapter." Subsection (b) lets the Director of Public Service demand proof of that contract for any dwelling unit in the city. Section 1860.04(a)(2) requires all non-putrescible solid waste to be removed "through a registered transfer station or solid waste disposal facility, not less frequently than once during each seven consecutive calendar day period", and 1860.04(b) requires any load of solid waste in transit to be covered with a tarpaulin or otherwise arranged so nothing blows, leaks or drops out. No person may operate a solid waste enterprise in the city without a registration certificate from the Director of Public Service, which costs a $25.00 application fee (Sec. 1860.06). Ordinance 82-63 passed 6-7-82; Ordinance 14-20-A passed 8-4-14. Source
• The City of Newark, Ohio's own Waste & Recycling page - the only waste page the city publishes - contains nothing but a pointer to Licking County's curbside recycling list: "There are several areas in Licking County that offer curbside recycling, either as part of your trash service, or for a fee." The city publishes no trash collection schedule, no bulk or large-item program, no drop-off site of its own, no set-out rules for bulky waste and no mattress guidance anywhere on it. There is no city sanitation or refuse department in the site's department list; Public Service covers streets, engineering and zoning, cemetery, infrastructure, stormwater and water and wastewater. Source Not confirmed: The city publishes no bulky-item guidance of any kind, so whether individual Newark haulers take a mattress, and what they charge, is not established from any city source
• Licking County Recycling's own list of who collects in each community, current as of October 2025, confirms that Newark has no single hauler contract. Where Johnstown, Pataskala and the Village of Granville are listed as getting recycling "As part of your trash service" through a named hauler, Newark's entry reads: "Newark: Check with your specific trash hauler to see if they offer curbside recycling in your neighborhood." The county explains the distinction at the foot of the page: "If you live in a township or village that does not have a single trash hauler contract (you have your own trash hauler, which may be different than your neighbor), you can check with your specific trash hauler to see if they offer curbside recycling in your area." The named haulers operating in Licking County communities are WIN-Waste, Local Waste Services, Rumpke and Shackleford's. Licking County Recycling is at 295 Wilson Street, Newark, OH 43055, (740) 670-5125. Source Not confirmed: The county's list is about recycling, not bulky waste, so it does not establish which Newark haulers take a mattress or on what terms

• 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