How to get rid of a mattress in Tallmadge, 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.

• Tallmadge's § 521.08 is the rule a reader with a mattress on the driveway actually needs, and it is stricter than anything its neighbors publish. Subsection (j): "Items too large to be stored in containers shall be stored out of view of the right-of-way until the day of waste collection." A mattress may therefore not sit at the curb in the days before collection. Subsection (k): "All receptacles for rubbish, refuse, garbage, and other waste, if placed within the street right-of-way for collection service, shall remain in that area no longer than 24 hours from the day for collection as scheduled by the director of public service, within a seven-day period." Subsection (l): "Any rubbish, refuse, garbage, and other waste remaining after collection by the trash hauler shall be cleaned up or removed the same day as the scheduled collection" - so a mattress the hauler leaves behind must come off the curb that day. Subsection (b) caps storage on the lot: "Unless otherwise allowed a longer period by law, no person, business, or corporation shall keep, store, place, or allow to remain longer than 14 days, used building materials, motor vehicle parts, scrap metal, refuse, garbage, or rubbish on any lot, or parts of lots, or parcel of land within the corporate limits of the city." Dumping is covered by subsection (f), which names furniture among the items no person may place "along or near any public road, street, parkway, drive, highway, ditch, or land adjoining any public road or highway or ditch thereof or any park or other property of the city or private property located within the city". The penalty is in subsection (m): "A police officer or auxiliary police officer, if so designated with such authority by the director of public safety, shall, upon observing a violation of this section, issue a minor misdemeanor summons to the owner, occupant, or person having charge of the premises. Whoever violates division (b) or (d) through (l) of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for each offense. Each day a violation occurs shall constitute a separate offense. Additionally, a violation of any division herein shall constitute a nuisance and shall be subject to any civil remedies available under the law." The section's definition of RUBBISH names "bedding". It comes from the 1985 Code § 521.08 as amended by Ord. No. 50-2005, adopted June 23, 2005, and the code is codified through Ordinance No. 2026-77, enacted September 24, 2026. Source Not confirmed: Section 521.08 grades the offense as a minor misdemeanor but publishes no dollar figure, so no fine amount is established from Tallmadge's own code. Not confirmed: Tallmadge's recodified Code of Ordinances publishes Parts 1, 3, 5 and 7 only, so the streets, utilities and public services part that would hold a refuse collection chapter could not be read; § 521.08(e) refers collection authorization to chapter 739, which is not among the published parts.

• 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