How to get rid of a mattress in Quakertown, 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.

• Quakertown Borough Code Chapter 20, Part 1, the 'Borough Refuse Storage, Collection, and Disposal Ordinance' (Ord. No. 1233, November 3, 2021, which repealed the former Part 1 of Ord. 1060 of September 6, 2000), puts the borough's monopoly and its penalties in writing. Its stated purpose includes a program 'whereby the Borough shall be the sole agent regulating the collection of solid waste and requiring residents to participate in the Borough's trash and recycling collection services.' It defines BULKY WASTE as 'Items that, due to their size or shape, cannot be disposed of in a Borough disposal trash can. This includes, but is not limited to, large household appliances that do not contain freon, such as stoves and washing machines; or furniture and furnishings of equivalent size; plumbing fixtures; large crates; tools; machinery or parts thereof; play equipment; garden equipment; exercise equipment; and similar items' - a mattress is not named in the code, though the borough's bulk trash page names it directly. The chapter makes it 'unlawful to dump, destroy, or otherwise dispose of refuse within the jurisdictional limits of the Borough' and requires all refuse to go to a site designated by Bucks County as a county landfill or other state-approved disposal site by an authorized hauler. On the curb, 'Empty carts and containers shall be removed from the collection points prior to 6:00 p.m. on the day of collection. In no event shall any cart or container remain at curbside for more than 24 hours,' and anyone found scavenging set-out material is in violation. The penalty section is the one worth knowing: 'Any person who shall violate any provision of this Part 1, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and attorney's fees. Each day that a violation of this Part 1 continues shall constitute a separate offense, and each section of this Part 1 which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense.' Source
• Quakertown Borough's Unacceptable Items page is worth reading alongside the bulk trash rule because a mattress is absent from it, which is consistent with the borough collecting one. The Sanitation Department 'will not collect the following items: Electronics (TVs, monitors, etc.), "White" Goods/Large Appliances, Grass Clippings, Hazardous Waste, Tires, Concrete, Pressure Treated Wood, Construction Material, Syringes, Paint, Spray Paint, Oil.' For the refused categories the borough names where to go instead: electronics to Grace Computers at 1110 N. West End Blvd. in Quakertown, Vintage Tech Electronics Recyclers at 900 Wheeler Way, Suite B in Langhorne, or Perkasie PC Repairs & Recycling at 1133 N. 5th Street in Perkasie; appliances and white goods to the Theis/Cornfeld Recycling Center at 635 Illick's Mill Road in Bethlehem. Household hazardous waste goes to Bucks County collection events, held 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. rain or shine, with Strayer Middle School at 1200 Ronald Reagan Drive in Quakertown and the Upper Bucks Area Vocational Technical School at 3115 Ridge Road in Perkasie among the sites. None of these take bedding, and the borough names no mattress drop-off of its own. Source
• Not an option: The Habitat for Humanity of Bucks County ReStore at 38 N. West End Blvd., Quakertown, PA 18951 will not take a mattress, and the charity's own donation page says so by name. Under Furniture its not-accepted list reads 'Mattresses, box springs and mattress toppers' and, separately, 'Beds, bed frames including headboards and footboards (all sizes)' and 'Medical Beds'. The single exception is a sofa bed: the accepted list allows 'Sofas and chairs in good saleable condition, sofa beds with mattress in excellent condition.' The same policy governs the organization's other two stores, at 539 Jacksonville Rd., Warminster, PA 18974 and 1337 E. Lincoln Highway, Langhorne, PA 19056, so it is the answer for a Bucks County reader generally and not only in Quakertown. The store does take wood furniture, appliances in working order, cabinets, doors and tools, all subject to the page's general rule that 'ALL ITEMS SHOULD BE IN CLEAN, FUNCTIONING, SALEABLE CONDITION'. Recording this stops the most common wasted trip in the county: driving a mattress to the nearest ReStore. Source

• 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