How to get rid of a mattress in Lower Burrell, 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.

• Lower Burrell, a city of 11,470 in Westmoreland County, runs no trash collection of any kind and does not contract one. Its ordinance puts the duty on the household to go and buy the service: Chapter 247, § 247-12A provides that "All household and homeowners shall utilize the services of a licensed collector of their choice for disposal of their domestic waste or household waste, unless they can demonstrate that the waste is properly disposed in a manner consistent with this article and all applicable Department rules and regulations adopted pursuant to Act 97 and Act 101." The licensing is the county's, not the city's: § 247-13 provides that "No person shall collect, remove, haul or transport any solid waste upon or through any streets or alleys of the City without first obtaining a license from the Westmoreland County Department of Planning and Development pursuant to the requirements of County Ordinance No. 2 of 1992," and § 247-9 defines a "LICENSED COLLECTOR or LICENSED WASTE HAULER" as one "possessing a current, valid county license issued by the Westmoreland County Department of Planning and Development". Because there is no city program, there is no city bulk allowance, no bulk week, no city bulk fee and no city set-out rule for a large item — what a Lower Burrell household pays to have a mattress taken is whatever its own hauler charges, and the city publishes nothing about it. Penalties are also handed off: § 247-14 provides that a violator "may be subject to any fines and penalties imposed by Westmoreland County, the applicable Westmoreland County ordinances as well as any fines and penalties which may be imposed by DEP under Act 101." The code does define "BULKY WASTE" — "Large items of solid waste including, but not limited to, appliances, furniture, large auto parts, trees, branches or stumps which may require special handling due to size, shape or weight" — and § 247-10A makes it unlawful "to accumulate or permit to accumulate upon any public or private property within the City, any garbage, rubbish, bulky waste" outside the rules. The Public Works department page lists ten employees working on roads, sewers and snow, and no refuse function at all. Source Not confirmed: Lower Burrell does not publish a list of the licensed haulers its residents may choose among, and the county licensing list was not read, so which firms serve the city is not established from a primary source. Not confirmed: No bulk-item price is established for Lower Burrell at all. Each household's charge is set by its own hauler's terms, which the city does not publish or link. Not confirmed: Chapter 247 names no set-out window, no size cap and no wrapping rule for a bulky item, because the city does not run the collection. Not confirmed: § 247-12C lists the county-designated disposal facilities as "BFI Landfill, Imperial, Pa., Valley Landfill, Chamber's of Monroeville Landfill" — names from the Westmoreland County plan that are decades old and were not verified as current operating sites, so none is recorded here as a drop-off.
• Lower Burrell's recycling page has a tab headed "Mattress Recycling," and what is behind it is a single sentence pointing the reader off the city's site entirely: "For more information on recycling mattresses, access the Tuck Mattress Disposal Guide." There is no local answer behind it — no drop-off, no collection, no fee, no named recycler. The rest of the page covers curbside recycling only: "Recycling Day for the City of Lower Burrell will be on Tuesdays. Residents are serviced every other week. Please make sure your recyclables are placed out at curbside by 6 am in blue bins on your recycling day," with bins "supplied by the recycling hauler" rather than the city, and one container per household. The city's one genuinely local disposal site takes nothing bulky: "the City of Lower Burrell leaf and limb disposal area is now reopened and available to City of Lower Burrell residents only," behind the brown building at City Hall, 2800 Bethel Street, open "Monday through Thursday: 7 am until 2 pm" and "Friday through Sunday: dawn to dusk," with "The City will randomly spot check PA drivers licenses to verify Lower Burrell residency. Non-residents and landscapers / contractors may be cited. In addition, any person(s) dumping illegal material(s) may be cited." Leaf and limb only — no furniture, no mattresses. The city's spring and fall recycling days, "typically held in April and October of each year at the City of Lower Burrell Police parking lot found at 2800 Bethel Street," are electronics and household hazardous waste events; mattresses appear on none of their lists. The page's one other bulky pointer is the county center at Westmoreland Cleanways, which the city links for "Free electronic recycling" — and which lists mattresses among the items it does not take. Source Not confirmed: The city's "Mattress Recycling" tab contains no local information — only an outbound link to a third-party guide. It names no Lower Burrell or Westmoreland County outlet that takes a mattress. Not confirmed: Lower Burrell's spring and fall recycling days publish no accepted-items list on the city site beyond electronics and household hazardous waste, so whether a mattress has ever been taken at one 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