How to get rid of a mattress in Oxford, 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.

• Oxford Borough runs no trash collection of its own, which makes it the exception among these five Chester County municipalities and changes the answer for a resident entirely. The Borough's Solid Waste & Recycling Collection page states: "Oxford Borough property owners are permitted to contract with any of the following licensed haulers for the collection of their solid waste and recycling materials." One hauler is listed, Republic. Residents are told: "You are encouraged to contact each of the licensed haulers to obtain their rates and collection schedules and select the provider that best meets your needs." So there is no borough bulk allowance, no borough bulk day and no borough fee — a mattress in Oxford is governed by whatever the resident's own hauler contract says. What the borough does impose, it imposes on the hauler rather than on the household: "All licensed haulers are required to schedule a refuse pickup for each parcel on a weekly basis" and that pickup must fall "between the hours of 5 am and 7 pm. Monday through Saturday." The page also states: "Please note, as per Ordinance § 669 recycling is mandatory in the Borough of Oxford for all residents and businesses." The borough is at 1 Octoraro Alley, PO Box 380, Oxford PA 19363, 610-932-2500, open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Source Not confirmed: The borough lists exactly one licensed hauler, Republic, and gives no rate, no bulk item allowance and no mattress term for it, telling residents to contact haulers themselves for rates and schedules. No price can be recorded for Oxford, because the borough publishes none and the hauler's borough-specific terms are not published by the borough. Not confirmed: The page gives no mattress rule of any kind — no wrapping requirement, no allowance, no exclusion. Neither does Chapter 20 of the Borough Code. A reader's answer in Oxford depends entirely on a private contract the borough does not publish. Not confirmed: Oxford Borough ran a spring clean-up event in 2023 at which residents dropped items off at the public works site with proof of residency. No current or recurring equivalent was established on the borough's own pages, and the 2023 event is too old and too thinly sourced to record.
• Oxford Borough's solid waste ordinance regulates the hauler and is silent on bulk items altogether — a silence worth stating, because it means no Oxford ordinance entitles a resident to have a mattress collected. Chapter 20, Solid Waste, Part 1 of the Borough of Oxford Code, adopted by Ord. 620 of November 10, 1987 and amended since, contains twenty sections covering licensing, storage practices, points of collection, collection schedule, hours of collection, equipment, disposal, complaints, insurance, performance standards and penalties. None of them uses the words mattress, bulk, bulky or bedding. Section 20-104 requires the license that makes a hauler lawful here: "No person shall collect, remove, hold or convey any refuse through or upon any of the streets or alleys of the Borough of Oxford or dispose of the same in any manner or place without obtaining a license from the Borough of Oxford", with the license fee set by resolution of Borough Council from time to time and issued for the calendar year. Section 20-107 is the source of the weekly rule the borough's page quotes: "The collector shall prepare a schedule of refuse pickup for each household on a weekly basis. The collector shall be responsible to notify residents of the day collection will be made." Section 20-108 sets the window: collection is permitted on all days except Sunday and New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, and "the collection of refuse/solid waste shall not commence before 5:00 a.m. and shall be completed by 7:00 p.m. on any single day of collection." Section 20-119 sets the penalty: any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of the Part "shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days", with each day of continued violation a separate offense. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 20 contains no bulk waste or large item provision at all. The absence means the borough has made no rule on the subject; it is not a prohibition on setting a mattress out and not a guarantee that one will be taken. The term is set privately between the resident and the licensed hauler. Not confirmed: This chapter is the Borough of Oxford in Chester County. The Borough of New Oxford in Adams County publishes a Chapter 20 titled Solid Waste as well, and it is a different municipality with different text; the Oxford Borough chapter here was confirmed from the page's own title and reached through the link on the borough's own website.
• Oxford Borough's Hauler Licensing page confirms from the borough side that collection here is a licensed private activity rather than a municipal service. It states that refuse "shall be collected and removed by a responsible person or collector who shall be licensed with the Borough of Oxford", and invites haulers interested in operating within the borough to obtain a license by completing the Municipal Hauler License Application. It requires that disposal take place in an area authorized and approved under state and federal regulations, citing Ordinance Section 20-104, and warns that operating without a license can result in a monetary fine for each documented occurrence. The page sets no requirement on bulk items and no collection frequency of its own. Source Not confirmed: The page does not list which haulers currently hold a license; it carries only the blank application. The Solid Waste & Recycling Collection page names Republic as the one licensed hauler, and the two pages are not cross-checked against each other by the borough. Not confirmed: The license fee is set by resolution of Borough Council from time to time under Section 20-104 and no current figure is published on either page.

• 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