How to get rid of a mattress in Norman, 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 Norman and its neighbors.

• Cleveland County, Oklahoma — the county that holds Norman and Moore, and not the Cleveland County in North Carolina that runs two landfills and seven convenience centers — operates no solid waste function at all. The official county site, whose own title reads 'Cleveland County, Oklahoma :: The Official Cleveland County Website', indexes its County Offices as County Assessor, County Clerk, County Commissioners, County Court Clerk, District Attorney, County Election Board, County Fair Board, County Health Department, County Sheriff, County Treasurer and the OSU Extension Office. There is no solid waste office, no public works or sanitation department, no environmental services division, and no county landfill, transfer station or citizen drop-off. The rest of the site is a safe room rebate program, contact and elected-official pages, district maps, a county history page, and a list of the cities and schools inside the county. Nothing on it collects, hauls or accepts anything. For Norman at 130,943 people and Moore at 63,609, the two largest cities in this wave, that means the mattress answer is entirely a city answer; there is no county program standing behind it. Source Not confirmed: The county publishes nothing about where a resident of an unincorporated part of Cleveland County — including the areas around Slaughterville and Little Axe — should take a mattress, so no county drop-off, voucher, free dump day or bulky collection is established. Not confirmed: No county ordinance on illegal dumping or on rural trash service appears on the site, so the rules outside city limits are not established. Not confirmed: The County Health Department is listed without a description, so whether it has any nuisance or dumping role is not established. Not confirmed: Be aware when checking this independently that searches for 'Cleveland County solid waste' return the North Carolina county's landfills and convenience centers, which have nothing to do with Oklahoma.
• The office a Cleveland County resident would ask about a county disposal program publishes none. The county's Commissioners page — titled 'Cleveland County Oklahoma :: Commissioners', so the state is on the page itself — names the three commissioners as Rod Cleveland for District 1, George Skinner for District 2 and Rusty Sullivan for District 3, and describes the site's purpose as helping to 'help bring Cleveland County into the 21st Century.' It does not set out the commissioners' duties, and it makes no mention of trash, solid waste, a landfill, dumping or any residential disposal program. The county offices sit at the Cleveland County Courthouse, 201 S. Jones, Norman. A county that placed dumpsters, held a free dump day, ran a convenience site or collected bulky items from unincorporated areas would say so on the commissioners' own page, and Cleveland County says nothing of the kind — which is consistent with the state's facility inventory, where no Cleveland County permit is held by the county. Source Not confirmed: The page sets out no duties at all, so it establishes that the commissioners advertise no disposal program rather than formally ruling one out. Not confirmed: No district-level cleanup event or dumpster placement is published for any of the three districts, and none is established. Not confirmed: No contact point for waste or dumping questions is given.
• Cleveland County has no landfill of any kind, and its only two permitted waste facilities both belong to the City of Norman. In the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality's Active Solid Waste Disposal Facilities inventory, last updated December 18, 2024, Cleveland County appears twice: the Norman Transfer Station, permit 3514007, (405) 329-8583, under transfer stations, and the City of Norman Yard Waste Compost Facility, permit 3514013, on the same phone number, under composting facilities. Cleveland County appears nowhere in the list of municipal solid waste landfills, nowhere in the construction and demolition landfill list, and nowhere among the solid waste processing facilities. So a Cleveland County household's waste leaves the county to be buried, and the only gate inside the county that takes general household waste is a city transfer station rather than a county facility. Moore, with 63,609 people, and Noble, with 7,748, hold no permitted waste facility at all. Source Not confirmed: The DEQ inventory publishes permit numbers, facility names and phone numbers only. It establishes no price, no hours, no residency rule and no accepted-materials list, so it says nothing about whether a mattress may be dropped at the Norman Transfer Station or at what charge. Not confirmed: The transfer station's own terms, including any resident discount, belong to the City of Norman and are a city-level question rather than a county one. Not confirmed: Where Cleveland County's waste is finally buried is not stated in this inventory, so the destination landfill is not established here. Not confirmed: The inventory's date is December 18, 2024, so anything permitted or closed since then would not appear.
• The regional council that covers Cleveland County runs no waste program, so nothing sits between its cities and the state. The Association of Central Oklahoma Governments lists Cleveland County itself as a member government alongside the City of Lexington, the City of Moore, the City of Noble, the City of Norman and the Town of Slaughterville — the county and every incorporated place of size inside it. 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 site's program pages match that list exactly. ACOG also publishes 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 and coordinates and acts as a clearinghouse for state and federal funds. For a reader in Norman, Moore or Noble there is therefore no regional drop-off, no regional voucher and no regional clean-up day. Source Not confirmed: ACOG publishes no household disposal guidance, drop-off directory or clean-up event, so no regional option is established for any Cleveland County town. Not confirmed: The page is a membership and mandate statement and does not rule out a past or grant-funded waste project no longer listed. Not confirmed: Membership establishes nothing about what any listed town itself collects.
• Not an option: The Habitat ReStore that serves central Oklahoma refuses used mattresses in writing, and its two stores are both north of Cleveland County in Oklahoma City. Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity's Donate to ReStore page accepts 'Furniture, Sofas, Chairs and Tables' along with 'Residential Doors and Windows', 'Small and Large Appliances', 'Cabinets, Drawers and Vanities', 'Hard Flooring, Carpet and Laminate (new condition)', 'Hardware, Tools and Lighting', 'Plumbing, Sinks and Toilets', 'Roofing, Sheet Goods and Insulation' and 'Lawn Mowers, Gardening Tools, Sprinklers, Grills and Patio Furniture'. Its not-accepted list names 'Used Mattresses or Box Springs' outright, beside commercial doors and windows, fluorescent tube lighting, unframed mirrors and glass, clothing and shoes, baby cribs and car seats, dishwashers manufactured before 2014, opened paint and chemicals, and tube and projection televisions, computers and computer equipment. The stores are at 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. The South Oklahoma City store is the nearer of the two to Norman and Moore, and it will still turn the mattress away. Source Not confirmed: The page refuses used mattresses and box springs without saying whether a new, unused, still-wrapped mattress would be accepted. Not confirmed: The page offers no recycling alternative for the item it refuses and names no outlet it would send a donor to instead. Not confirmed: No Habitat ReStore is published inside Cleveland County, and whether a separate Habitat affiliate covers Norman was not established. Not confirmed: The pickup service's rules for bedding are not published, so whether a booked pickup would decline a mattress at the door is not established.
• A Cleveland County reader with a clean, undamaged bed has one donation policy that names mattresses as acceptable: 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'. Bedding appears on none of its refusal lists; what it 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 page offers to 'Schedule a free furniture and other donation pickup service'. The organization's own caveat is the part to act on: '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 Norman, Moore and Noble this is the route most likely to take a usable mattress for nothing, and it is still a phone call rather than a published guarantee. 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 Cleveland 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 free pickup's service area is not published, so whether it reaches Norman, Moore or Noble is not established. Not confirmed: No lead time, item limit or guarantee against refusal at the door is published.