How to get rid of a mattress in Greensburg, 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.

• Greensburg's Chapter 227 — "Solid Waste, Bulky Waste, Recycling, Household Hazardous Waste (Hhw) and E-Waste Collection" — puts the monthly allowance in the ordinance and leaves the charge past it entirely to the hauler. § 227-13A provides: "Bulky waste. Residents shall be granted the removal of one bulky waste item once a month on their regular garbage pickup day. The bulky waste item shall be placed at the curbside on the day of collection or the evening before. There will be a charge to any resident by the City-approved garbage hauler for more than one bulky waste item per month. In the event of a natural disaster, i.e., flooding, special cleanup coordination with the contracted hauler shall be managed through the City Administrator." The code commits the resident to a charge and never sets one: no schedule in Chapter 227, no resolution referenced, and WM's own Greensburg page puts its bulk terms behind an account login — "WM offers convenient collection of bulk items... Collection must be scheduled before your regular collection day. Sign up or log in to your My WM account for more information." § 227-5 defines bulky waste as "Large items of refuse too large for collection in ordinary bags or containers, including but not limited to appliances and furniture, excluding e-waste." Set-out is fixed by § 227-11A — containers go out "at ground level, and be made accessible to the collector on and no earlier than the evening before collection will be made" — and § 227-11E requires that "Waste containers must be removed from the curbside by 7:00 p.m. on the day of collection." § 227-12A sets the collection window for homes at "no earlier than 6:00 am. and no later than 4:00 p.m. on scheduled collection dates." Rear and alley collection is barred by § 227-11A unless it is the only access or the City Administrator approves it. Source Not confirmed: § 227-13A states that "There will be a charge to any resident by the City-approved garbage hauler for more than one bulky waste item per month" and no figure for that charge is set anywhere in Chapter 227, in a City resolution linked from the city site, or on WM's Greensburg page — WM's bulk terms sit behind a customer account login. The city has committed residents to a charge it does not publish. Not confirmed: Chapter 227 does not say that the first bulky item is free. The city's web page does — "at no additional charge" — but the ordinance only grants the removal and prices nothing. Not confirmed: Mattresses are named nowhere in Chapter 227; the word does not appear in the chapter. The mattress appears only on the city's Recycling & Trash page.
• Greensburg sets one of the heavier illegal-dumping penalties in southwestern Pennsylvania, and it does it with a lettered grade scale rather than a flat figure. Chapter 227, § 227-15A provides: "It shall be unlawful for a person to throw, bury, place or deposit or cause to be thrown, buried, placed or deposited any solid waste or unlawful solid wastes in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk, body of water, sewage, storm sewer, public or private property or any part within the City not mentioned, except as provided in this article. The fine for violation of this subsection shall be Grade G." § 227-15B applies the same Grade G to bringing waste onto your own property for disposal. The grades are set out in § 227-27A, where "The first violation of sections or subsections of this article in accordance for grades previously mentioned shall be set as follows": Grade A is a written warning, B $50.00, C $100.00, D $150.00, E $200.00, F $300.00, G $400.00, H $600.00, I $800.00, J $1,000.00 and K $2,000.00. So a first offense of dumping a mattress on a Greensburg street is $400.00. § 227-27B escalates it — "For a second and subsequent violation, the fine shall be increased to the next grade higher. In the event that the fine reaches $600, the next and subsequent fines shall be increased by $150" — and § 227-27C provides that "Each day of occurrence shall be considered a subsequent violation." Interfering with another household's container is Grade D, $150.00, under § 227-11D. § 227-27F lets the enforcement officer "first issue a written warning for any violations of this article in lieu of the specifically indicated grade, depending on its severity." Source Not confirmed: Chapter 227 carries no apartment, HOA or multi-unit restriction specific to bulky items; buildings with more than four dwelling units are treated as commercial properties under § 227-5, but the chapter does not say what that means for a tenant's mattress.

• 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