How to get rid of a mattress in Bethany, OK.

If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.

Casper

Free

Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. Source

Purple

Free

Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source

Raymour & Flanigan

Free

New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source

Rooms To Go

Free

New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Bethany and its neighbors.

• Oklahoma County's own government publishes no solid waste function of any kind. The county's Departments listing names Benefits & Retirement, Boards & Commissions, Court Services, Election Board, Emergency Management, Engineering, Free Fair Association, Health & Safety, Human Resources, Information Technology, Juvenile Bureau, OCHFA, OSU Extension, Planning Commission, Public Defender, Purchasing and Treatment Courts. There is no department of solid waste, sanitation, public works, environmental services or recycling; no county landfill, transfer station or convenience site; and no county trash or bulky-item collection route. The closest thing to an environmental function is the Planning Commission, whose only waste-adjacent material is a stormwater information page, and the listing points readers to a Department Directory for contacts rather than to any disposal service. For a reader in Edmond, Midwest City, Del City, Bethany, Choctaw, Warr Acres, The Village or Harrah this matters in a specific way: there is no county program to fall back on behind the town's own. Whatever that city collects, or declines to collect, is the only public collection available, and every drop-off site inside Oklahoma County is run either by an individual city or by a private operator. Source Not confirmed: The county publishes nothing anywhere on its site about where a resident of an unincorporated part of Oklahoma County should take a mattress, so no county drop-off, voucher, free dump day or bulky-item collection is established, and none may be assumed to exist. Not confirmed: No county ordinance on illegal dumping, on private haulers, or on rural trash service appears on the county's site, so the rules that apply outside city limits are not established. Not confirmed: Whether Oklahoma County ever operated a landfill or citizen drop-off that has since closed is not addressed by anything the county publishes.
• Oklahoma County sets out its own statutory job in five lines, and waste is not one of them. The county's About Us page gives county government's responsibilities as 'Maintenance of peace and the protection of life and property.', 'Assessment and collection of taxes to operate the County, the Schools, and cities within the County.', 'Compile, record, and preserve public roads, highways, and bridges.', 'Provide facilities for courts and the administration of justice through the district court system' and 'Care of the needy and indigent, unemployable, homeless, and the aged.' The same page describes the county as a constitutional form of government made up of eight elected officials, with three County Commissioners forming the Board of County Commissioners and administering county government alongside the Assessor, County Clerk, Court Clerk, Sheriff and Treasurer. Roads, courts, taxes, law enforcement and indigent care are the whole of the published mandate. Household waste collection and disposal are left to the cities and to private haulers, which is why the mattress answer for every town in this county is a city answer rather than a county one. Source Not confirmed: The page is a statement of the county's general mandate and not a disposal policy, so it establishes that the county claims no waste role rather than ruling out some unpublished program. Not confirmed: No fee, no facility and no contact point for waste appears on the page, so nothing about cost or access is established here. Not confirmed: The page does not name the private operators or cities that residents of unincorporated Oklahoma County use instead, so who serves a rural address is not established.
• The one Oklahoma County program that touches trash is a sentencing program, not a service a resident can book. District 2's page describes SHINE — Start Helping Impacted Neighborhoods Everywhere — in five parts: SHINE Community Service, Citizens for SHINE, Students for SHINE, the SHINE Community Garden and SHINE on Oklahoma Music. The commissioner's own description of the work is 'cleaning up trash, covering graffiti, clearing dumpsites', and the Community Service section describes 'eliminating hundreds of blighted eyesores in neighborhoods such as debris and graffiti removal'. The crews are low-risk, non-violent offenders working court-ordered community service on public ground. The rest of the page is road and bridge work, including a Patching Program and Drainage and Ditch Repairs. Nothing on it offers a household a pickup, a drop-off, a dumpster, a voucher or a free dump day, and no mattress or bulky-item collection is described. The number the page gives, 405-713-1152, is for people who want to volunteer with SHINE. So a reader who finds Oklahoma County's name attached to trash cleanup should not read that as a disposal option: SHINE clears blight from public spaces, it does not haul a resident's mattress. Source Not confirmed: The page does not say whether SHINE will clear an illegally dumped mattress from a county road, who may report one, or how long that takes, so no resident-facing route into the program is established. Not confirmed: No cost, eligibility rule or service area is published for any part of SHINE. Not confirmed: Districts 1 and 3 may describe other cleanup work; this finding rests on the District 2 page only, and no county-wide bulky-item program is established from it.
• Every permitted waste facility in Oklahoma County belongs to a city or to a private operator, and none belongs to the county. In the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality's Active Solid Waste Disposal Facilities inventory, last updated December 18, 2024, the Oklahoma County entries are three municipal solid waste landfills — Oklahoma Landfill (permit 3555018), Southeast OKC Landfill (3555028) and East Oak Recycling and Disposal Facility (3555036) — one construction and demolition landfill, Northeast Landfill (3555050), and three transfer stations: City of Midwest City Transfer Station (3555029), Edmond Transfer Station (3555051) and the Oklahoma City Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility (3555054). The county also holds four permitted composting facilities — ENSO Solutions, Fertile Ground Compost Facility #1, Prairie Dirt Solutions and Stealth Business Solutions — and several medical waste processing and transfer facilities. Two of the three transfer stations are named for the city that runs them, Midwest City and Edmond, and the third takes household hazardous waste only. No facility in the inventory is named for Oklahoma County, and no county authority or solid waste district appears anywhere in the state's list for this county. Source Not confirmed: The DEQ inventory is a permit list: it records the county, permit number, facility name and a phone number, and publishes no prices, no hours, no residency rules and no accepted-materials list, so whether any of these sites takes a household mattress and at what charge is not established from it. Not confirmed: No gate price for a mattress at any of the three municipal solid waste landfills in Oklahoma County is established from a primary operator page. Not confirmed: A construction and demolition permit does not by itself establish what household items Northeast Landfill will or will not accept, and the list says nothing about it. Not confirmed: The inventory's date is December 18, 2024, so a facility opened, closed or repermitted since then would not appear.
• DEQ's second facility list gives the street addresses the permit inventory leaves out, and all three Oklahoma County municipal solid waste landfills sit inside Oklahoma City limits rather than in any of the county's smaller towns. The list of solid waste disposal facilities authorized to accept non-hazardous industrial waste records East Oak Recycling and Disposal Facility, permit 3555036, at 3201 Mosley Road, Oklahoma City, OK 73141, (405) 427-1112; Oklahoma Landfill, permit 3555018, at 7600 SW 15th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73128, (405) 745-3002 or (405) 203-6146; and Southeast OKC Landfill, permit 3555028, at 7001 S Bryant Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73149, (405) 672-7379. That places the county's landfill capacity in the southwest, southeast and northeast of Oklahoma City — a long drive from Choctaw, Harrah or Edmond, and the reason those towns' own transfer arrangements matter more to their residents than the landfills do. The list's purpose is to say which landfills may take non-hazardous industrial waste, so it establishes location, permit and operator contact, not public access or household pricing. Source Not confirmed: This list says nothing about whether a member of the public may use any of these landfills, what the gate charges for a mattress, or what hours they keep, so none of that is established. Not confirmed: The list is addressed to industrial waste generators rather than to households, so any rate or allowance a reader might infer from it would be the wrong one. Not confirmed: Whether a mattress counts as accepted municipal solid waste at each site is not stated, and must not be assumed from the permit class.
• The regional council of governments that covers Oklahoma County runs no waste program either, so there is no layer above the cities at all. The Association of Central Oklahoma Governments lists Oklahoma County itself as a member government, together with Bethany, Choctaw, Del City, Edmond, Forest Park, Harrah, Jones City, Lake Aluma, Luther, Midwest City, Nichols Hills, Nicoma Park, Oklahoma City, Spencer, The Village and Warr Acres — which is to say nearly every town whose mattress question this county covers. ACOG says it administers four major service areas: 911 & Public Safety, Community & Economic Development, Transportation Planning Services as the Metropolitan Planning Organization, and Water Resources. Solid waste, recycling, household hazardous waste and bulky item disposal are not among them, and the five program pages on its site match that list. ACOG also states its own limits: 'ACOG complements and supplements local government activities but is not a governmental unit.' and 'It does not possess the power of enforcement or taxation.' It plans, it coordinates and it acts as a clearinghouse for state and federal funds; it does not collect or dispose of anything. Source Not confirmed: ACOG publishes no household disposal guidance, no regional drop-off directory and no clean-up event, so no regional option is established for any Oklahoma County town. Not confirmed: The page is a membership and mandate statement, so it does not rule out a past or grant-funded waste project that is no longer listed. Not confirmed: Member status is not a service: a town appearing on ACOG's board list establishes nothing about what that town itself collects.
• Not an option: Central Oklahoma's Habitat ReStore, the metro's largest reuse outlet for household furniture, will not take a used mattress. Its Donate to ReStore page lists what it accepts — 'Residential Doors and Windows', 'Small and Large Appliances', 'Cabinets, Drawers and Vanities', 'Hard Flooring, Carpet and Laminate (new condition)', 'Furniture, Sofas, Chairs and Tables', 'Hardware, Tools and Lighting', 'Plumbing, Sinks and Toilets', 'Roofing, Sheet Goods and Insulation' and 'Lawn Mowers, Gardening Tools, Sprinklers, Grills and Patio Furniture' — and then lists what it does not, a list that includes 'Used Mattresses or Box Springs' alongside commercial doors and windows, fluorescent tube lighting, unframed mirrors and glass, clothing and shoes, baby cribs and car seats, pre-2014 dishwashers, opened paint and chemicals, and tube and projection televisions. Both stores are in Oklahoma County: 1800 N. Broadway Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73103, (405) 232-5592, and 4900 S. High Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73129, (405) 778-6222, open Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., closed on Sunday. So a reader who plans to donate a bed to the ReStore because it takes sofas and tables should know the refusal is explicit and in writing. Source Not confirmed: The page refuses used mattresses and box springs without saying whether a new, unused, still-wrapped mattress would be accepted, so that is not established. Not confirmed: The page offers no recycling alternative for the item it refuses, and does not say where it would send a donor instead. Not confirmed: Nothing is published about the pickup service's rules for bedding, so whether a scheduled ReStore pickup would decline a mattress at the door is not established.
• The one metro-wide donation route that names mattresses as acceptable is The Salvation Army's. Its donation FAQ lists, under 'Unbroken furniture, such as', the items 'Beds (full, queen, and king)', 'Mattresses' and 'Sofas', and under household goods it names 'Bedspreads' and 'Bedding'. Mattresses appear on no refusal list; what the FAQ declines is appliances with mechanical difficulties, a missing power cord, rust or dirt, gas appliances of any kind, large console televisions and stereos, televisions older than five years, built-in appliances, automobile parts, paint or chemicals of any kind, and kerosene and gas heaters. The same page offers to 'Schedule a free furniture and other donation pickup service' and carries a 'Schedule a Free Donation Pickup' route. The important qualification is the organization's own: 'Because local ordinances, as well as need, vary from location to location.' it tells donors to call 800-SA-TRUCK to confirm what their area accepts. For a reader anywhere in Oklahoma County, that makes this a call to make rather than a service to count on — the national policy allows a mattress, and only the local command can say whether this week it will take one. Source Not confirmed: This is The Salvation Army's national donation policy. Acceptance is explicitly said to vary by location, and no page published for central Oklahoma repeats the mattress line, so local acceptance in Oklahoma County is not established. Not confirmed: No condition standard is published for a mattress — nothing about stains, tears, bed bugs or age — so whether a given bed qualifies as 'unbroken furniture' is not established. Not confirmed: The FAQ does not say which Oklahoma County addresses the free pickup covers, how far ahead it must be booked, or whether a box spring counts as a second item. Not confirmed: No price is involved, but no guarantee is published either: the page does not say a scheduled pickup cannot be refused at the door.
• The Salvation Army unit that would actually collect a donated bed in this metro is the Central Oklahoma Area Command, at 1001 N Pennsylvania Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73107, +1 (405) 246-1100, and it publishes no acceptance list of its own. Asked what it takes, its Contact Us page answers only 'Yes. Please visit SATRUCK.org or call 1-800-SA-TRUCK to learn more about what The Salvation Army accepts.' and invites a donor to enter a ZIP code to 'continue to our donation site to find local donation options for clothing, furniture, and more.' It states that if the local unit can accept the items, a pickup can be scheduled by calling that same number, that a cancellation goes through Donor Services on the same line, and that receipts are given at manned drop-off locations. Donor Services is also reachable on 1-800-SAL-ARMY. The practical reading for a reader in Oklahoma County, Cleveland County, Canadian County or McClain County is that the Area Command deliberately defers the mattress question to the national donation line, so the acceptance decision is made per item, by phone, and cannot be read off any page. Source Not confirmed: The Area Command publishes no list of accepted or refused items, so whether it takes mattresses in practice is not established from any page it controls. Not confirmed: No service area is published: the page does not say which cities or counties the free pickup covers, nor whether Norman, Edmond, Yukon, Purcell or Blanchard are inside it. Not confirmed: No drop-off address for donated furniture is given on this page, and 'manned drop-off locations' are not named. Not confirmed: No hours, lead time or item limit for a pickup is published.