How to get rid of a mattress in Bellefonte, 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.

• Bellefonte also runs one free curbside clean-up a year, and whether a mattress may go out on it is the one thing the Borough does not say. The refuse page describes "Riff-Raff Week", held annually and usually the week after the May yard sales, when items are picked up at the curb free of charge, one truck-sized load per customer, with no extra trips. The exclusions are listed in the Borough's own words: "Tires, batteries, items too heavy for two men to handle, construction material, paint cans and hazardous waste" "cannot be picked up during riff-raff." Mattresses appear nowhere in that list, and nowhere in an accepted list either — the Borough publishes no itemized roster of what riff-raff takes, only the exclusions and the one-load cap. The Borough also notes it may skip a collection if the load is too large or too heavy, and asks residents not to use cardboard boxes in the rain. Separately, the Borough runs a composting facility on Musser Lane open to Borough residents for compostable materials only, which does not reach bedding. Residents can sign up through Smart911 for schedule-change alerts by contacting the borough office, and collection questions go to 814-355-1501, extension 220 or 221. Source Not confirmed: Riff-Raff Week names mattresses neither as accepted nor as excluded. The Borough publishes only an exclusion list, and bedding is absent from it, which is a gap rather than permission: nothing read establishes that a mattress may go out free during riff-raff week, and nothing establishes that it may not. The nearest bar that could catch one is the exclusion of "items too heavy for two men to handle", which is a judgment made at the curb rather than a published rule about mattresses. Because a mattress is priced at $25.00 on the Borough's own special collections list, a reader should not assume the free week covers it; no service is recorded for riff-raff on that account. Not confirmed: The exact dates of Riff-Raff Week are not published on the refuse page beyond "usually the week after May yard sales", and no year-specific schedule was found.

• 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