How to get rid of a mattress in Plymouth, 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.

• Not an option: No mattress-specific recycler, take-back or Bye Bye Mattress collection site serves Plymouth Borough or the wider Wyoming Valley. Pennsylvania runs no state mattress stewardship program, and a search for a Luzerne County facility that dismantles mattresses returned only national junk-removal marketing pages, none of them a facility with a street address and published mattress terms. Plymouth Borough publishes nothing of the kind: its Garbage Haulers page tells residents only that 'Plymouth Borough does not contract directly with any trash haulers' and lists five private subscription haulers. A Plymouth mattress therefore goes out with a private hauler's trash, not to a recycler. Source Not confirmed: Absence of a published mattress recycler is not the same as a refusal: no Luzerne County facility states that it will not take a mattress, only that none could be found that states it will.
• Plymouth Borough runs no trash collection of its own and arranges none on a resident's behalf. Its Garbage Haulers page states flatly that 'Plymouth Borough does not contract directly with any trash haulers,' and leaves each household to buy its own service. The page then names the five private haulers 'whose service area covers Plymouth Borough': Waste Management, which offers 'Weekly 96 Gallon Bin Service for garbage and Bi-Weekly for recycling' and takes sign-ups online at wm.com; Foughts Disposal, 'Weekly Bag Collection', (570) 784-5762; Casella, 'formerly GFL/County Waste', 'Weekly Collection', whose bags or stickers are sold at 'Plymouth Hometown Market, Matus News, Turkey Hill or Sunoco'; Tom Curry Sanitation, 'Weekly Bag Collection', (570) 704-6271; and Independent Waste Services, (570) 709-7980, which signs residents up at independentwastenepa.com. Four of the five are marked garbage only; Waste Management is the one the borough lists for both garbage and recycling. Nothing on the page addresses bulk items or mattresses, so what a Plymouth household pays to put a mattress out depends entirely on which of the five it has hired. Source Not confirmed: The borough names five haulers but publishes no mattress or bulk-item terms for any of them, and no hauler-specific rate card for Plymouth Borough was found, so no price is established. Not confirmed: No borough-run clean-up day, amnesty event or drop-off for bulky items is published.
• Plymouth Borough's Refuse Disposal Ordinance, Article IV of the Solid Waste chapter adopted June 11, 2013 by Ord. No. 1-2013, makes the private subscription compulsory rather than optional: 'All residential solid waste, refuse, rubbish and recyclable materials produced, generated, accumulated or deposited within the Plymouth Borough shall be collected, transported and disposed of by a private or commercial refuse collector or hauler or a transporter for hire,' and 'The resident shall produce proof of having private subscription service if requested by the Code Enforcement Officer or any other person designated by the Borough.' The set-out window is tight and is the borough's own rule, not a hauler's: containers 'shall be placed on the side of the street from which collection is to be made no sooner than 4:00 p.m. the evening before the designated day for collection and must be removed by midnight on the day of collection.' Residential collection may only run 'between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday of each week. There shall be no collection on Sundays from residential dwellings.' Refuse must be 'Disposed of solely in gallon trash bag, not to exceed 33 gallons in capacity', tied shut, and 'Trash bags shall not exceed 50 pounds in weight when placed at the curbside for disposal and if they do they will not be collected.' Every hauler must file its prices with the borough: 'All collectors must file with the Borough a rate schedule stating the charges for their services.' Dumping is punished heavily — 'a fine not less than $500 and not more than $1,000, plus costs or in default of payment of such fine and costs, then sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 30 days', with 'Each day's continuance of a violation of this article constitutes a separate offense' — and the borough gives itself a rebuttable presumption of ownership where 'any articles, papers or items containing a person's name' turn up in dumped waste. The code reserves, but does not schedule, a clean-up: 'nothing in this article shall prohibit the municipality from, at its sole discretion, declaring a spring cleanup and authorize an independent contractor to pick up those items designated by the municipality at a specific time designated by the municipality.' Source Not confirmed: Article IV never uses the words bulky waste, bulk item, mattress or box spring, and sets no allowance, size limit or wrapping rule for a large item. Article I of the same chapter covers only the licensing of collectors and Article II only recycling, so the code is silent on mattresses rather than refusing them. Not confirmed: The spring cleanup is discretionary and no date, item list or contractor has been published for one, so it cannot be relied on.

• 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