How to get rid of a mattress in Sylvania, 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.

• Sylvania runs two different bulk routes in the same year, and which one a resident uses decides what a mattress costs. The city's Refuse/Recycling/Green Yard Waste page lists both. For most of the year a bulk item needs a paid sticker: "Bulk Item Refuse Stickers - $15.00" and "Extra Refuse Bag Stickers - $2.25". Twice a year the city runs "Unlimited Household Refuse Collection (Large Item Pick-up)", with "Spring 2026 Pick-up Information - (April 27th - May 1st, 2026)" and "Fall 2026 Pick-up Information - (September 14th - 18th, 2026)". The page states that "City residents are currently offered not only weekly curbside refuse pick up but also bi-weekly recycling and green yard waste pick up", and sends residents to republicservices.com to find their pickup day, Republic Services being the city's collection contractor. Green yard waste is separate and paid for by the resident, with annual stickers priced by the month of purchase - $40.00 January through May, $30.00 June and July, $20.00 August and September, $10.00 October through December - and $2.00 bags sold at Sylvania Ace Hardware on Main Street, both Sylvania Kroger locations and Sautters Food Center. Questions go to Utilities at 419-885-8733 or utilities@cityofsylvania.com. The page also links the city's general refuse rules, acceptable and unacceptable solid waste lists, and the refuse fee and exemption documents. Note that the City of Sylvania and Sylvania Township are separate municipalities; this program belongs to the city. Source
• Sylvania charges every household an annual refuse fee and then lets a good many of them out of it, which is the context for the $15.00 bulk sticker sitting on top. The city's Refuse Fee Questions and Answers booklet states: "All households in Sylvania are required to pay for their refuse pickup. The fee for 2025 is $163.25." Two exemptions are published. On tax paid: "If the total tax paid to the City of Sylvania by the members of the household is equal to or greater than $163.25, a full refuse exemption will be granted. If the total Sylvania tax paid is less than $163.25, a partial exemption may be granted. In the case of a partial exemption, the total amount of Sylvania tax paid is deducted from the yearly refuse fee of $163.25. The remaining amount is divided by 12 and is billed on the monthly utility invoice." On income: "If the total of all income of the members of the household is $43,400 or less, the household will receive a full exemption of the refuse fee." The household must file all required Sylvania tax returns and have a signed refuse fee waiver on file with the income tax office, the exemption lasts one year, and the 2025 exemption is based on tax year 2023. The city's taxation page adds that where the household receives city water the refuse fee appears on the utility bill "as a separate item labeled Refuse", and otherwise "you will receive a bill for refuse fees monthly." Forms are filed with the Division of Taxation, Suite 202, 6730 Monroe Street, 419-885-8940. The annual refuse fee buys the weekly collection; it does not buy a bulk sticker, which is still $15.00 an item. Source Not confirmed: The booklet published on the city's site gives the 2025 refuse fee of $163.25; the city does not publish a 2026 figure on the same page.

• 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