How to get rid of a mattress in Ambridge, 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.

• Ambridge publishes a long and careful list of what its hauler will not take, and a mattress is on neither side of it. The borough, at the Borough Building Complex, 600 Eleventh Street, Ambridge, PA 15003, has Valley Waste Service under a contract it dates "January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2030" - a fresh five-year term, which makes the silence current rather than stale. Trash is weekly and recycling every other week on the same day, and set-out is "NO EARLIER than 24 hours" before the scheduled pickup, with cans or bags held to about 40 to 50 pounds. There is no bulk-item section on the page and no bulky, large-item or special-pickup program of any kind. The refused list is itemized down to small categories: "Large building materials, refuse caused by repairs, remodeling, demolition and/or construction of any structures"; "Paving materials, stones, sand, dirt, sod, concrete, 55-gallon drums, grease drums and large vehicle parts"; shrubs or vegetation with soil on the roots and tree limbs over three inches in diameter; pressurized cylinders, ammunition, explosives, fireworks and fire extinguishers; liquids including paints, solvents, oils, gas, antifreeze, pesticides and pool chemicals; and "All tires, ALL BATTERIES, all asbestos and any devices containing mercury." Electronics are routed away by name - "Televisions, computer monitors, or electronics can be taken to Beaver County Recycling" near Brady's Run Park. Carpeting and tree branches get their own preparation rule, "must be less than 3 to 4 feet in length and bundled", and freon appliances must have the freon removed with proof taped to the item. In a list that specific, mattresses, box springs and furniture appear nowhere - not as accepted and not as refused. That is a gap rather than a prohibition, and it must not be read as either permission or refusal. The borough does hold one annual event, "usually in summer", for televisions, air conditioners and paint cans, announced on its website and Facebook, and it points residents to the county recycling center at Brady's Run for the rest. Missed collections must be reported within 24 hours, by calling or texting 724-843-9373 option 1 or emailing customersvc@valleywasteservice.com. Source Not confirmed: Ambridge publishes no bulky-item or large-item program, no allowance, no fee and no booking route, and names neither a mattress nor a box spring anywhere on its garbage page. Their absence from an otherwise exhaustive refused-items list is an absence, not a refusal and not permission. Not confirmed: No set-out rule, wrapping requirement or weight cap specific to a large item is published. Not confirmed: The borough's summer electronics and hazardous event is described only by the categories named - televisions, air conditioners, paint cans - with no published date, location or full accepted-items list for 2026. Not confirmed: The borough names no refuse rate and publishes no ordinance section on this page.

• 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