How to get rid of a mattress in New Holland, 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.

• New Holland Borough collects oversized items on a designated day for $20.00 a tag, the steepest oversized tag of the six Lancaster County boroughs checked, and names furniture and carpet rather than a mattress. 'This trash collection and recycling program includes a number of services under one contract with the Borough's current refuse hauler, Good's Disposal.' 'The regular collection day for all of New Holland Borough is Thursday.' 'On regular collection days, trash, yard waste, and recyclables must be on the curb in front of your home by Wednesday night. Trash and recycling toters must be put out no more than three (3) feet from your curb and should be clearly visible to the collector. Please do not block sidewalks. No alley or back door service will be provided, except by prior arrangement with the hauler.' 'Trash may not be placed on the curb earlier than the evening before collection day.' 'Good's Disposal is supplying a 95-gallon toter. No loose trash is permitted in the toter. If you have additional trash, it must be marked with a yellow Extra Service Tag-$5.00/each.' The oversized rule is the one that matters here: 'Oversized refuse items, such as furniture and carpet will be picked up on the designated large item pick up day. All over-sized items must be marked with a red Extra Service Tag-$20.00/each. Tags should be attached securely and in a place clearly visible to the waste hauler.' Appliances and tires are separate and twice a year, 'usually sometime in April and October', with 'a white Extra Service Tag - $20.00/each' for a large appliance and 'a purple Extra Service Tag - $5.00/each' for a tire, both of which 'must be purchased in advance and your address recorded for pick-up at the Borough Office.' Yard waste bags are '$.50 each' and left outside the Borough Office front door with an honesty drop box. Leaving the Borough's program costs money too: 'If you choose to opt-out of the trash program during the contracted time period, you will be charged $10.' Recycling is compulsory - 'You are required by Borough Ordinance to separate those materials for special collection as previously described. No recyclable materials are allowed in trash containers.' The Borough Office is 436 East Main Street, 717-354-4567. Source Not confirmed: The page's examples of an oversized refuse item are 'furniture and carpet' and it never mentions a mattress or box spring, so New Holland publishes no price for putting one out. Not confirmed: The page does not say how often the designated large item pick up day falls, or how far in advance a red tag must be bought - it imposes advance purchase and address recording only for the white appliance tag and the purple tire tag. Not confirmed: The page does not say what happens to a collected oversized item, so the outcome is unknown.
• New Holland Borough publishes its large item run on the Borough calendar rather than as a standing schedule. The calendar entry titled 'Large Item Pick Up' gave a date of 'Nov 27 2026' and a time of '8:00 am - 6:00 pm'. That is the Friday of Thanksgiving week, the same day the Borough's calendar moved that week's 'Thanksgiving Trash/Recycling Pick Up' to from its usual Thursday, so the large item run travels with the regular route rather than standing apart from it. An oversized refuse item is collected on that designated day and not on an ordinary Thursday, which means a resident with something too big for the toter waits for the next listed date rather than putting it out the following week. Source Not confirmed: The calendar entry lists no accepted or refused items and says nothing about mattresses. Not confirmed: The Borough does not publish a full year of large item pick up dates in one place, so how often the run falls is not established from the calendar.
• Not an option: New Holland Borough's own Chapter 20, Solid Waste, puts a mattress outside what the Borough's hauler contract collects, which is why the Borough's $20.00 red oversized tag is written against furniture and carpet and never against a mattress. Section 201 defines 'MUNICIPAL CONTRACT WASTE - those portions of regulated municipal waste which are to be collected and disposed of under this municipal contract. Municipal contract waste consists exclusively of refuse and oversized refuse items.' 'REFUSE' is then defined with four exceptions - '(1) Construction/demolition waste. (2) Non-processable waste. (3) Putrescible waste. (4) Household hazardous waste.' - and 'NON-PROCESSABLE WASTE - non-processable waste is a portion of municipal waste consisting of materials which cannot be handled by LCSWMA's normal processing or disposal methods. Non-processable waste includes items greater than six (6) feet in any dimension such as mattresses, large furniture and recreational vehicles.' The other half of municipal contract waste is closed by the same definition: 'OVERSIZED REFUSE ITEMS - refuse which will not fit into refuse containers but which is not non-processable waste, including small furniture, carpet, portable televisions and the like, but excluding tires and white goods.' An 'EXTRA SERVICE TAG' is in turn 'a label which shall be affixed to tires, white goods, oversized refuse items, yard waste and extra refuse containers in order for such items to be collected by the contractor' - four categories and extra containers, none of which a mattress falls into. The same chapter sets the curbside window and the penalty a mattress left out would be judged against. Section 207.1.A: 'No regulated municipal waste or designated recyclable materials shall be placed at curbside for collection more than twenty-four (24) hours in advance of the scheduled time for collection. Refuse containers must be picked up no more than twelve (12) hours after collection.' Section 217: a violator 'shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding, be liable to pay a fine or penalty of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), which fines and penalties may be collected as provided by law. Each violation of any provision of this Part or of any provision of the municipality's policies and procedures, and each day that such a violation continues, shall constitute a separate violation and offense.' The $100 floor is a real one: there is no warning step in the section. Source Not confirmed: The chapter excludes a mattress from municipal contract waste by definition rather than printing a refusal, and it does not say where a New Holland household should take one instead. Not confirmed: A later Part of the same chapter, at Section 301, defines 'NONPROCESSIBLE WASTE' more narrowly as 'large items of Solid Waste, including but not limited to furniture, large automobile parts, trees, branches and stumps', without naming a mattress, and its 'REFUSE' definition carries a longer list of exceptions. The two Parts of Chapter 20 therefore do not use identical wording, and which one governs the Borough's current contract is not established from the chapter alone. Not confirmed: The copy the Borough publishes is a scanned PDF with pages marked 'Page Revised 7/1/2014' and 'Page Added 3/7/2000', so anything adopted since is not covered.

• 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