How to get rid of a mattress in Carbondale, 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.

• Carbondale does not run its own collection: the city contracts it out, and names the hauler on its own Community Information page in the list of important city phone numbers as "Garbage - Mascaro and Sons (800) 243-7575". The city's own Department of Public Works is listed separately at (570) 282-8281 and handles other work. Collection is zoned by day rather than by route number — the city publishes a hand-marked Trash Removal Schedule map of the whole city, divided into four colored areas labeled Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with Monday covering the northwest of the city, Tuesday the northeast, Wednesday the central east side and Thursday the southern section along the Lackawanna River. That map is the full extent of what Carbondale publishes about refuse: the city's website carries no bulk item page, no large item rule, no mattress policy and no fee schedule of any kind. The city code does contain "Chapter 85 – Garbage, Rubbish, Refuse", which is named in the city's Neighborhood Preservation and Nuisance Abatement Ordinance, but Chapter 85 itself is not published online and the City of Carbondale is not on eCode360 or Municode. This is a case of a town whose collection is real and contracted but whose terms for a mattress are simply not published anywhere the public can read, so no price and no mattress rule is recorded for Carbondale. Note for anyone rechecking this: the well-indexed explorecarbondale.com and carbondalegov.org both belong to other cities of the same name, in Illinois and Colorado, and carry detailed refuse rules that do not apply here. Source Not confirmed: Carbondale publishes no bulk or large item rule at all: no allowance, no per-item fee, no limit and no booking method for a mattress or any other oversized item Not confirmed: Whether a mattress must be wrapped or bagged in Carbondale is not published by the city or in any readable part of its code Not confirmed: Chapter 85, Garbage, Rubbish, Refuse of the Carbondale City Code is referenced by the city's own nuisance ordinance but its text is not published online, and Carbondale is not carried on eCode360 or Municode, so its set-out window, container rules and penalties could not be read Not confirmed: The amount residents pay for refuse collection in Carbondale, and whether it is billed by the city or by Mascaro and Sons, is not published on the city website Not confirmed: No service is recorded for Carbondale because the city publishes no terms — no price, no rate card and no stated mattress policy — only the hauler's name and the collection day map
• Carbondale attaches an unusual consequence to repeat garbage violations, and it is the one local rule the city does publish in full. Under the City of Carbondale Neighborhood Preservation and Nuisance Abatement Ordinance, which amends Chapter 114 of the Carbondale City Code, a property becomes a public nuisance on the strength of refuse violations alone. Section 114-6 provides that "The following violations shall be deemed a nuisance after two (2) or more incidents", and the list of qualifying chapters of the Carbondale City Code includes "Chapter 85 – Garbage, Rubbish, Refuse" as item 3, alongside "Chapter 101 – Littering" as item 5. An incident is defined by the ordinance as "the execution of an enforcement action, by any City department, in response to a reported violation of the law". A conviction is not required for the city to establish one: Section 114-7 states that the city "shall be required to prove a specified violation by a preponderance of the evidence", and that a conviction, where there is one, "shall constitute conclusive proof". Two trash enforcement actions at an address are therefore enough to open a nuisance case against it. Penalties under the ordinance run high for this kind of offense — Section 114-17 provides that a person who violates "any other provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of a summary offense" and "shall upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a minimum fine of three hundred ($300) dollars and a maximum fine – as allowed by law, along with all costs of prosecution, and in default of payment of fine and costs, imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days", with each day after a Certified Warning counting as "a separate offense". Landlords are reached a second way: the ordinance bars a rental Registration License to "a property owner whose property tax, garbage or sewer fee is delinquent". Code Enforcement takes complaints at 570-282-4633. Source Not confirmed: The fines quoted are those of the nuisance ordinance itself, Chapter 114. What Chapter 85, Garbage, Rubbish, Refuse sets as the penalty for a first garbage violation is not published and could not be read Not confirmed: The ordinance does not say what conduct amounts to a Chapter 85 violation, so which acts around a mattress set out improperly would count as an incident is not established

• 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