How to get rid of a mattress in Strongsville, 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.

• Strongsville is one of only four Cuyahoga County municipalities with a transfer station reserved to its own residents, and the city publishes the terms the county list does not. "Republic Waste operates the Foltz Parkway Transfer Station", "located behind the Strongsville Municipal Building, 16099 Foltz Parkway", reached by the driveway along the railroad tracks. Hours are Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. - weekend hours, which the county's two publicly open stations do not advertise. Entry is restricted to "Strongsville residents (proof of residency is required)." The accepted list is excess household refuse, scrap metal, tires off the rim only, car batteries, appliances, and yard waste such as brush and branches but no grass clippings. Refused outright are liquids of any kind, construction or remodeling waste, and paint, gasoline, oil, soil, rocks and concrete blocks. The station takes money but the city never says how much: a separate city notice states that "Starting Aug. 1, 2026, Republic Waste will no longer accept cash at its Strongsville Transfer Station, located behind the city's muninicipal offices at 16099 Foltz Parkway" and that "Only electronic payments -- credit and debit cards -- will be taken." A rule about how to pay, with no rate anywhere on the city's pages, is a committed charge of unstated size - it must not be read as free. Source Not confirmed: No price is published for the Foltz Parkway Transfer Station, by the load, by the ton or by the item, and the city's own notice regulating payment methods shows a charge exists; it is not free and the amount is not established Not confirmed: Mattresses and box springs are named nowhere on the station's accepted or refused lists, so whether a resident may drop one there is not established - the item is simply absent Not confirmed: The city gives no proof-of-residency specifics beyond the phrase itself, and no vehicle or volume limit
• Strongsville's code puts bedding into ordinary trash by name and routes anything oversized through a phone call rather than a form. Section 1064.02(b) defines "rubbish" as nonputrescible waste material "(including paper, cardboard, cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, wood chips, glass, bedding, crockery, rubber, rags, leather, straw, tires, auto parts, furniture, appliances)" - bedding and furniture both inside the ordinary waste stream, not a separate priced category. The resident rules in 1064.07 confirm the set-out window at both ends: "Refuse shall be placed on the tree lawn near the road edge by 7:00 a.m. of the designated collection day. Refuse shall not be put out earlier than the night before the scheduled collection day." The thirty-gallon and fifty-pound caps in 1064.07(b) apply to bags and disposable containers, which a mattress is not, and 1064.07(g) supplies the route for it: "Appliances and special items not covered herein shall be picked up upon request. A call should be made to the service dispatcher with specific information." So a Strongsville mattress is either ordinary trash set out by 7:00 a.m. or a special item collected on request by telephone; the code names no charge for either. Section 1064.07(e) lists what the Department of Public Service and Properties will not take - liquids such as paint, gasoline, oil and thinners, and animals or animal waste - and bedding is not among them. Section 1064.071 restricts the city's own waste receptacles to residential waste from inside the city limits. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 1064 sets no fee for a special item collected on request under 1064.07(g), and Section 1064.99 Penalty was not read, so neither the charge nor the fine for a violation is established Not confirmed: The code does not say whether a mattress should be treated as ordinary trash under 1064.02(b) or as a special item under 1064.07(g), and the city's own page suggests the former

• 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