How to get rid of a mattress in Palmyra, 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.

• Palmyra's weekly allowance for a large item has a size and weight cap, and a mattress does not fit inside it. Chapter 305, Article II of the Borough Code (adopted September 15, 1975 by Ordinance No. 416; code current through December 23, 2025) defines OVERSIZED REFUSE ITEMS as "A piece of refuse which will not fit into a refuse container but which is not bulky waste, including a small piece of furniture, carpet, and any acceptable item less than six feet in any dimension and less than 45 pounds in total weight", and § 305-12B says "The Borough will collect oversized refuse items during the weekly collection schedule; however, each property shall be limited to no more than one oversized refuse item per week." Six feet is 72 inches: a twin mattress is 75 inches long, a full 75 inches, and a queen or king 80 inches, so every standard mattress is longer than the cap, and at 50 to 100 pounds a mattress is also heavier than the 45-pound limit. On the Borough's own definitions a mattress therefore falls out of the weekly oversized-item allowance and into BULKY WASTE, defined as "Items of solid waste which, due to their size, shape or weight, cannot be collected as a part of the normal weekly municipal waste collection and, therefore, require special handling", a category that "includes, but is not limited to, large auto parts, machinery or parts thereof, tools, plumbing fixtures, skids, furniture, or any acceptable item that does not fit in to a regular thirty-three-gallon refuse receptacle." Bulky waste is not on a schedule a resident can plan around: § 305-12B says "The Borough will establish, from time to time, special collection days for bulky waste which shall not be stored outside of a building except for a period within seven days of the established collection day", and § 305-12A adds that the system is "intended only for the collection of refuse ordinarily or normally accumulated in the conduct of a household or a commercial undertaking" and that "the Borough Council may, from time to time, establish special collection days and charges for pickup of said refuse." The Borough has committed itself to a bulky waste collection and to charging for it, and has published neither a date nor a figure. The weight cap is reinforced at § 305-11A, where "The weight of any receptacle and its contents shall not exceed 45 pounds." Source Not confirmed: The code nowhere names a mattress or a box spring, so the conclusion that bedding falls outside the weekly oversized-item allowance rests on the published size and weight caps rather than on a statement by the Borough Not confirmed: § 305-12 authorizes the Council to set special collection days and charges for bulky waste, and no such date and no such charge is published, so what a Palmyra resident pays to have a mattress taken is not established and must not be read as free Not confirmed: The Borough's website carries no refuse or recycling page of its own, so no current collection day, hauler name or rate could be read from it
• Palmyra's refuse rules fix where waste may go, when it may appear at the curb, and what it costs to ignore either. § 305-10A, amended August 22, 2023 by Ordinance No. 825, directs every household's waste to one destination: "No person shall hereafter dispose of any garbage or refuse from any premises in the Borough except by conveyance of the same to a sanitary landfill operated by the Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority." Curbside timing is tight at both ends: § 305-10B(6) says "No refuse or source separated recyclable materials shall be placed at curbside for collection more than 24 hours in advance of the scheduled time for collection" and that "All empty refuse and source-separated recyclable material containers shall be removed from curbside or the sidewalk by 12:00 midnight of the day of collection. Empty containers shall not remain at curbside or on a sidewalk overnight." § 305-10B(5) adds that refuse "shall not be stored at curbside or on a sidewalk prior to collection" at all. Receptacles are capped at 33 gallons and 45 pounds including contents. What the Borough will not take is itemized at § 305-12C and includes household hazardous waste, residual waste, white goods, grass clippings, liquid waste, friable asbestos and tires; white goods, tires and electronic waste are also excluded from the definition of bulky waste. Leaving refuse to pile up is expensive: under § 305-13, where Council finds refuse accumulated, stored or dumped in conflict with the ordinance, it may notify the owner or occupant by certified mail to remove it within five days, and if they do not, "the Borough shall have authority to cause the same to be removed and disposed of and shall collect the cost of such removal and disposal, with an additional amount of 10% thereof, from such owner or occupant in default." The penalty, set at § 305-14 and last amended December 20, 2018 by Ordinance No. 791, is that every violator "shall, for each and every such violation, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 and costs of prosecution, including the Borough's reasonable attorneys' fees, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than 30 days, provided that each day's violation of any provision of this article shall constitute a separate violation." Owners of buildings with more than eight apartment units may under § 305-15 either use the Borough's collection or contract privately. Source Not confirmed: The code sets no figure for the quarterly refuse charge or for any special bulky waste collection, leaving both to Council resolutions that are not published alongside the code

• 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