How to get rid of a mattress in Perrysburg, 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.

• Chapter 1086 of the Codified Ordinances of Perrysburg puts the collection in the hands of the city's own Bureau of Sanitation and gives the large-item program its legal name. Section 1086.01(p): "'Unlimited collection' means acceptable refuse items that are too large to be placed in the City refuse Toters." Section 1086.01(g) already counts bedding as refuse: "'Rubbish' means nonputrescible solid wastes, excluding ashes, garbage and yard waste, consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, cardboard, tin cans, wood, glass, bedding and crockery." Rule 1 of Section 1086.02: "The City will collect, convey and dispose of refuse and recycling once per week from all dwellings." Rule 9 itemizes the category: "Unlimited refuse consists of: furniture, appliances, metal or plastic (NOT WOODEN) swing sets or other playground equipment, water beds, above ground, inflatable pools dismantled into pieces not weighing over 65 pounds each, tires, and individual minor automobile parts such as exhaust pipes or mufflers." That list names water beds but not mattresses or box springs, and Rule 10's exclusion list - major automobile components, batteries, used motor oil, yard waste, fencing, wooden playground structures, construction and building materials, bathroom, kitchen and plumbing fixtures - does not name them either. The city's own Refuse & Recycling page settles the question in the resident's favor by naming mattresses under Large Item Collection, so the code's silence is a drafting gap rather than a refusal. Rule 7 limits ordinary collection to city containers: "Except as otherwise described herein with respect to unlimited collections, or upon specific consent of the City's Director of Public Service, refuse and recycling will only be collected from City Toters." Rule 8 sets the set-out window at the curb or alley by 7:00 a.m. and no earlier than 6:00 p.m. the night before, bars collection from corrals, and warns that residents may be fined if Toters are left at the curb 24 hours after collection. Rule 1 also authorizes a monthly fee for carry-out and carry-back service, "determined from time to time by the Director of Public Service", with disabled residents and residents over 65 exempt. Section 1086.05(c)(4) requires any other hauler working in the city to buy a license at fifteen dollars per year per vehicle. Section 1086.99 makes a violation of the chapter an offense. Source Not confirmed: Rule 9's list of unlimited refuse names water beds but never mattresses or box springs, and Rule 10's exclusion list does not name them either; only the city's Refuse & Recycling page puts mattresses in the program. Not confirmed: Rule 1 authorizes a monthly carry-out and carry-back fee set by the Director of Public Service and the code sets no figure.
• Perrysburg's Carry Out / Carry Back page resolves the fee the code left open, at least for the households that qualify: "The Carry Out/Carry Back service is free of charge if the members of the household are 65 years old or disabled." The service is not automatic - "Residents must fill out the application form each year for this service" - and the city issues a service tag that "must be displayed where it is visible to the collection crew." Service tags expire on March 31 each year, and renewal letters go out to current users in March. Even on this service the city-issued refuse and recycle Toters must be set out by 7:00 a.m. on the collection day and cannot sit in corrals. The page does not say what a household that does not qualify would be charged, so the monthly fee Rule 1 of Section 1086.02 authorizes remains unpublished for everyone outside the exempt group. Source Not confirmed: The page states the service is free for households aged 65 or over or disabled, and does not publish any charge for a household that does not qualify.

• 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