How to get rid of a mattress in Shippensburg, 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.

• Shippensburg Borough's fee schedule contains a line reading "$40.00 per bulk item pick up", but it is not printed in the part of the schedule addressed to residents and it cannot be read as the price a household pays for a mattress. The schedule's residential block is explicit about who it covers and contains no bulk charge at all: under "Refuse / Trash Collection (effective 1/1/26)" it reads "(Borough residents only)", then "$48.00 / quarter, four 30-gallon containers per week" and "$10.00 per container over four", and stops. The $40.00 line sits further down, after the subheadings "Permanent Commercial Dumpster" and "Temporary Dumpster", as the last entry under Temporary Dumpster and directly below "$60.00/ton construction material (effective 1/1/24)", before the schedule moves on to "Recycling Containers for Replacement". The borough's public works page describes the residential service in the same terms as the residents' block — trash collected once a week with "each household allowed four 30 gallon containers per week for the quarterly base fee" and "Any containers over four will be picked up for an additional charge" — and mentions no bulk item charge. Recycling is billed separately at "$11.00 per quarter per unit" for residential. A compost permit is "$10.00" for borough, Southampton Township Franklin County and Southampton Township Cumberland County residents and "$30.00" for all others. Source Not confirmed: Whether the "$40.00 per bulk item pick up" line applies to a resident's household item or only to the dumpster service it is printed under could not be established. It falls under the Temporary Dumpster subheading, while the block marked "(Borough residents only)" lists no bulk charge, so it is not recorded as a residential mattress price. Not confirmed: The borough publishes no on-request bulk item collection for residents on its services pages; the only bulky route described is the annual May clean up.

• 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