How to get rid of a mattress in Struthers, 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.

• The City of Struthers does not collect its own refuse: trash and recycling are provided by Republic Services, weekly for trash and every other week for recycling, with Republic supplying a 95-gallon waste can and a 65-gallon recycling can. The city publishes its trash and recycling schedules only as images on the page, and publishes no bulk item, large item or mattress rule of any kind - the page carries no bulk section, no fee, no allowance and no booking number for one. The city maintains a central recycling center on Bob Cene Way, gives out free leaf bags at City Hall and has the Street Department collect leaves on Mondays in the fall. City Administration is 330.755.2181. Source Not confirmed: The city's trash page says nothing at all about bulk items or mattresses and gives no route to book a large item pickup, so the terms on which a Struthers mattress is collected are not established Not confirmed: The trash and recycling schedules are published only as images and were not transcribed, so collection days are not on record
• Struthers requires a free collection day every spring as a condition of each hauler's license, then lets a weekly hauler out of it. Codified Ordinance 951.05(a) provides that "As part of the license issued annually, each firm, corporation, association or individual shall grant the City and its customers one free day collection which collection shall be carried out by each licensed operator giving it or their customers proper notice as to the date and hours of collection. This one day pickup shall take place on the first Saturday of May of any given year. All pickups shall take place at the curb." Subsection (c) then withdraws the obligation from exactly the kind of hauler Struthers uses: "However, any company that provides unlimited pickup and including solid waste pickup weekly can be excused from the spring pickup." Republic Services, the city's designated contractor, collects weekly. Section 951.06(a)(2) makes service compulsory: "Each individual or group of individuals or family domiciled in a residential unit shall be required to contract with the City's designated trash collection contractor for the removal of any trash, garbage, rubbish or other refuse if produced by such residential unit", with owners of rental property responsible for contracting regardless of any agreement with occupants, and "A violation of this section shall be deemed a minor misdemeanor for a first offense; and fourth degree misdemeanor on subsequent offenses." (Ord. 18-041. Passed 5-30-18.) The chapter's definitions in Section 951.01 run to "wood, leaves, grass cuttings, weeds, dead trees, or the branches thereof, chips, shavings, sawdust, woodenware, dodgers, printed matter, paper, pasteboard, brass, rags, straw, boots, shoes, hats and all other combustible matter" for "Rubbish", and to soil, masonry, glass, ashes, metals "and all other noncombustible materials" for "Waste matter"; neither names mattresses, box springs or furniture. Source Not confirmed: Because Section 951.05(c) excuses a hauler providing unlimited weekly pickup and Republic Services collects weekly in Struthers, it is not established whether the first-Saturday-in-May free day collection actually runs, and no city or hauler notice of a date and hours was found Not confirmed: Section 951.05 names no accepted or excluded items, so even if the free day runs it is not established that a mattress is taken on it Not confirmed: Mattresses and furniture are absent from the Section 951.01 definitions of "Garbage", "Rubbish" and "Waste matter", which is a gap in a 1955-era list rather than an exclusion of them
• Struthers sets a tight curbside window by ordinance and backs it with a criminal penalty. Codified Ordinance 951.08 provides that "(a) Residents are hereby prohibited from placing garbage and debris at curb-side twenty-four hours prior to their regular scheduled pickup. (b) Trash collection bin must be taken back from the curb-side the night of the scheduled pickup day. (c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor." (Ord. 16-019. Passed 4-27-16.) The requirement to clear the curb on the night of collection applies to whatever was set out, so a mattress cannot be left at the curb overnight after the truck has passed. Section 951.99 sets the chapter's general penalty: "Whoever violates any provision of this chapter for which no other penalty is provided shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the first offense, and for the second or subsequent offense not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00). Each day's violation shall be considered a separate offense." (Ord. 76-6829. Passed 3-17-76.) Source
• Struthers names mattresses directly in what it treats as a property maintenance violation, which matters to a resident who is tempted to leave one outside while arranging a pickup. The city's Code Enforcement page lists, among the conditions prohibited on exterior property areas, "Broken, dilapidated, or unusable furniture, mattresses or other furniture," and also prohibits items placed on premises "in such a manner as to be patently unsightly, grotesque or offensive to the senses." Materials such as earth, sand or dirt may not be left on a property for more than one month without written authorization from the Safety Service Director. The same page covers Codified Ordinance 521.15, which concerns cutting high grass: owners, tenants and others in charge of property must not "allow the property's grass to grow in excess of six (6) inches in height", and if it exceeds that the Safety-Service Director may have it cut and "A fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) will be assessed to the owner of the property." Source Not confirmed: The prohibition on broken or unusable mattresses on exterior property is quoted from the city's Code Enforcement page summary rather than from the text of the underlying property maintenance section, which the page does not number; the numbered section it does quote, 521.15, concerns high grass Not confirmed: No penalty amount is published on that page for the furniture and mattress condition specifically

• 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