How to get rid of a mattress in Kingston, 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.

• Kingston's weekly trash has no opening for a mattress at all, which is why the paid summer cleanup is the answer. The Refuse Disposal Ordinance, Chapter 103, Article I, requires in § 103-6A(3) that "All rubbish, refuse, garbage and solid waste shall be: (a) Disposed of solely in thirty-gallon trash bag container/liners affixed with a garbage sticker issued by the Municipality of Kingston", with "Trash bags shall not exceed 50 pounds in weight when placed at the curbside for disposal." The sticker itself costs "$2" under § 103-6A(4), a price set by Resolution No. 2010-19 for all stickers sold after January 1, 2011, and Town Council may change it by resolution. Residents' own plastic or metal cans are allowed only if "lined with an approved trash bag, affixed with an approved garbage sticker". Nothing in the article provides a bulk-item route, a per-item fee or an allowance; the only opening is § 103-12B, which says "nothing in this article shall prohibit the municipality from, at its sole discretion, declaring a spring cleanup and authorize an independent contractor to pick up those items designated by the municipality at a specific time designated by the municipality." Collection is at least weekly, between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, with no residential collection on Saturdays or Sundays, and containers may go out "no sooner than the evening before the designated day for collection". § 103-11 sets the penalty at a fine "not exceeding $1,000" or up to 30 days in default, each day a separate offense. Taking it to the public works yard instead is barred: Kingston's recycling page states that "Effective immediately, residents are no longer permitted to drop-off single stream recycling at the DPW Warehouse", and that "Anyone caught dumping recyclable materials on municipal property will be cited for littering." Note for anyone matching names: this is the Municipality of Kingston, a home rule municipality in Luzerne County, not Kingston Township, which adjoins it and runs its own separate spring cleanup. Source Not confirmed: The ordinance's requirement that all solid waste be disposed of solely in thirty-gallon stickered bags cannot physically be met by a mattress, but Kingston nowhere states what a resident should do with an item that will not fit a bag outside the summer cleanup window, and it is not recorded here as a refusal.

• 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