How to get rid of a mattress in Tiffin, 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.

• Tiffin collects nothing itself and does not let a household shop around. Section 934.05(a) of Chapter 934 requires that "The collection contractor shall make at least one regular weekly collection of solid waste year round and at least one regular bi-weekly (occurring every two weeks) collection of recyclable materials year round, at each residential unit within the City" (Ord. 18-13, passed February 28, 2018). Section 934.05(b) makes the arrangement exclusive: "All owners of residential units are required to obtain solid waste and recyclable materials and collection, transportation and disposal services from the collection contractor", and "Under no circumstances may an owner of a residential unit contract for residential solid waste and recyclable materials transportation and disposal services with any person, firm or corporation except with the collection contractor that has been granted a franchise by the City for residential units." Service may be suspended only while a unit is vacant or its occupants are away three months or more, on notice to the contractor. A "Residential Unit" is defined in 934.01(d) as an occupied residential dwelling within the corporate limits including residences of three units or less, single-family homes, condominiums or town homes, so a larger apartment building is outside the franchise. Containers must be stored inside the garage or at the side or rear of the unit under 934.08, and 934.99 makes any violation of the chapter a minor misdemeanor with each day a separate offense. The chapter contains no bulk item section, no allowance and no charge of any kind. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 934 never mentions mattresses, bulky items or large items, and sets no fee the contractor may charge for one, so the year-round rule for a mattress is not in Tiffin's code Not confirmed: Tiffin's other waste chapter, Chapter 933, Garbage, Refuse and Junk, covers transport, scavenging and junk vehicles and has nothing on bulky household items either Not confirmed: The American Legal Publishing copy of the Tiffin code is current through June 17, 2024

• 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