How to get rid of a mattress in Norton, 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.

• Norton's code sets the hours a hauler may work and makes the exclusive Republic arrangement lawful. Codified Ordinances Section 1060.02, "Time of collection as a condition of license", requires that a licensee "collect, transport and dispose of any garbage, rubbish or refuse during only those hours after 7:00 a.m. and before 6:00 p.m., and that three violations of this requirement in any 12-month period shall be grounds for the revocation of the license" (Ord. 35-2008, passed April 14, 2008; amended by Ord. 85-2017, passed November 13, 2017). Section 1060.01(a) requires a license from the Chief of Police for each collection vehicle at "fifty-five dollars ($55.00) per collection vehicle per year", and gives the city "full power and authority to enter into an exclusive agreement with a waste hauler under which the waste hauler will be the sole, exclusive company for the collection and removal of residential recyclables, refuse and waste materials in the City". Section 1060.08 exempts "any private individual hauling garbage, rubbish or refuse from his or her own premises", so a Norton resident hauling their own mattress needs no license. Section 1060.07(i)(2) names a city drop-off — "the City of Norton Recycling Center, behind Fire Station No. 1, located at 3230 Greenwich Road" — but the section defines the materials it exists for as newspapers, metal and glass food and beverage containers, No. 1 and No. 2 plastics and cardboard, which does not include a mattress. Source Not confirmed: Section 1060.07(k) still requires each one and two-family household to secure refuse collection "from a private refuse hauler of the resident's choice", while the city's current page says all residential trash has been collected exclusively by Republic Services since July 5, 2016; the code is not updated to describe the exclusive arrangement the city entered under 1060.01(a). Not confirmed: Whether the Greenwich Road recycling center accepts anything beyond the listed recyclable materials is not stated.
• Norton prices a refuse violation in its ordinance rather than leaving it to the state. Codified Ordinances Section 1060.99 provides that "Whoever violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree for a first offense and shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both for a second or subsequent offense within one year, such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned not more than sixty days, or both. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues." Section 1060.06 adds a rule that catches anyone hauling their own mattress in an open bed: "Any person hauling any garbage, rubbish or refuse in any open vehicle, such as a truck or trailer, shall cover the load thereof with an adequate tarpaulin or canvas so as to prevent any spillage or scattering of its contents." Source

• 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