How to get rid of a mattress in Ambler, PA.

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.

• Ambler's plastic wrapping requirement came from the hauler rather than from borough council, and the borough dates it. In a notice headed "New Bulk Pick Requirement – Mattresses & Box Springs", dated January 2, 2019, the borough reports a notification received from J.P. Mascaro & Sons, its trash, recycling and waste hauler, that "all mattresses and box springs to be thrown out must be wrapped with plastic and sealed closed when placed curbside." The reason given is the same one Conshohocken and Bridgeport cite: "The company now requires this to protect their employees with the handling of mattresses and box springs." The requirement took effect on February 1. This matters for who imposes the rule in Ambler: it is a term of the hauler's service, carried onto the borough's own pages and still stated there, rather than a provision of a borough ordinance, so a resident who disputes it is arguing with Mascaro and not with the borough code. Source Not confirmed: The notice sets no penalty for an unwrapped mattress and does not say whether one is simply left at the curb; the borough's trash page does not fill that in either. Not confirmed: A flyer linked from the notice as "Mattress Disposal 20190115103354" was not readable from the page, so any further detail it carries is not recorded.

• Operator location page gives 219 Street Road, West Grove PA 19390; DEP permit 101069 directory gives 261 Street Road. Preserve both; no automatic address overwrite or branch merge. Source
• Seven facility cards distinguish YCRRC/Small Load Drop-Off at 2651 Blackbridge Road from management at 2700, recycling at 2685 Blackthorne Court, ash site, recreation and sanitary landfill. Operator ZIP 17406 differs from DEP YCRRC ZIP 17402. Source
• No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on PA DEP pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source
• PA DEP County Recycling Coordinators directory (select county) for local drop-offs and events; RecycleSearch for material-specific facilities; DEP Recycling Hotline 800-346-4242. DEP says bulky items go through your refuse hauler, or your county recycling coordinator if you have none. Source