How to get rid of a mattress in New Castle, PA.

If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.

Casper

Free

Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. Source

Purple

Free

Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source

Raymour & Flanigan

Free

New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source

Rooms To Go

Free

New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across New Castle and its neighbors.

• Lawrence County has no county collection and no county disposal site. Its solid waste work is done jointly with the county next door by the Lawrence-Mercer Recycling/Solid Waste Department, based at the Lawrence County Government Center, 430 Court Street, New Castle, PA 16101, reachable at 724-658-6925, whose stated mission is to "develop and implement both the Lawrence County and Mercer County Municipal Solid Waste Management Plans." What it operates is a set of unstaffed recycling bins and a calendar of events: paper bins at ten sites across the county, including the Lawrence County Courthouse upper parking lot at 430 Court Street in New Castle, the Ellport Borough salt garage at 4th Avenue and Booster Way in Ellwood City, and municipal buildings in Hickory, North Beaver, Perry, Plain Grove, Pulaski, Scott and Slippery Rock townships; and purple glass bins at New Castle (430 Court Street) and Ellwood City (5153 Ellwood Road). Everything it collects is paper, cardboard and glass. Ellwood City is served by this department — two of its drop-off sites are in the borough — which settles the county question for a town that straddles a county line: Census subdivision records place Ellwood City borough in both Lawrence County and Beaver County, and it is the Lawrence County department that publishes drop-off sites there. The borough's own contracted collection is a city-level answer and belongs on the Ellwood City page. Curbside trash and bulky collection across the county is arranged municipality by municipality; the department only publishes guides to it. Source Not confirmed: The department publishes no landfill or transfer station in Lawrence County and no self-haul rate, so there is no county drop-off fee to record Not confirmed: Its materials do not say how the Beaver County portion of Ellwood City borough is handled, or whether those residents may use the Lawrence County sites
• The Lawrence-Mercer department's standing collection program is its Hard-to-Recycle (H2R) day, held on the second Tuesday of each month from 9 am to 1 pm, alternating between venues in Lawrence and Mercer counties so that, in the department's words, the program is "accessible to as many people as possible." The 2026 calendar ran from January 13 at the department's own office in the Gettings Annex at the Lawrence County Courthouse in New Castle through December 8 at the same place, by way of the Mercer Area Library, Hempfield Township, Pulaski Township, the Hermitage City Building, Union Township, the Greenville Area Public Library, Neshannock Township, the Wampum Borough Building on September 8, the New Castle Public Library on October 13 and the Grove City Borough Building on November 10. Its program details are short: "This program is for RESIDENTIAL households only. No commercial or institutional materials are accepted", "The program is currently free", and "Materials collected are subject to change depending on costs and markets." The accepted list is printed under a large YES and names holiday lights, books, thermostats, shoes, plastic bags and film, and media including VHS tapes, cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs and floppy disks. Under an equally large NO it names cell phones, fluorescent tubes, CFLs, electronics, paint and chemicals, and batteries. Mattresses, box springs, bedding and furniture are on neither list. A free monthly county collection that a resident of any town in the county may use is a real thing to know about — and it will not take a bed. Source Not confirmed: Mattresses appear on neither the YES nor the NO list — an absence from an itemized calendar, not a published refusal
• The department's one large annual event tells the same story in more detail. Its 2026 Special Collection Event was held on Saturday, September 26, 2026, 9 am to 1 pm at the Scott Township Volunteer Fire Department, 3712 Harlansburg Road, New Castle, PA 16101, and took four categories of material. Electronics and household hazardous waste went to Noble Environmental, by credit card only, with registration required and limited to 200 vehicles: televisions and monitors at 60 cents per pound, all other electronics at 40 cents per pound, household hazardous wastes of all types at $1.80 per pound, batteries and fluorescent lights at $1.65 per pound, and propane cylinders at $11 each. Appliances and tires went to Tri-County CleanWays, cash or check only and no registration: appliances with Freon at $25 per item, all other appliances such as washers, hot-water tanks, stoves and microwaves at $5 per item, and tires from $3 for a passenger vehicle tire to $40 for a tractor trailer tire on rims, limited to 20 tires per person. Paper shredding was free and unlimited, sponsored by the Lawrence County Commissioners. The second page prints a full Accepted Items column — televisions, computers, laptops, printers, copiers, scanners, keyboards, speakers, cell phones, stereos, VCR and DVD players, game consoles, AC units, dehumidifiers, gasoline, kerosene, diesel, motor oil, antifreeze, insecticides, pesticides, paints, thinners, solvents, cleaners, bleach, aerosols, fluorescent lights and batteries — and a Prohibited Items column covering smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, ammunition, explosives, compressed gas cylinders, pharmaceuticals, syringes, medical waste, elemental mercury, mercury-containing devices, PCB-contaminated items and containers over 5 gallons. A mattress fits in neither column. Between the monthly H2R day and this annual event, Lawrence County's whole public collection program is electronics, chemicals, appliances, tires and paper, and it publishes no mattress route at all. Source Not confirmed: Neither the accepted nor the prohibited column names a mattress, box spring or item of furniture Not confirmed: The flier states no residency requirement, so whether the event is limited to Lawrence and Mercer county residents is not established