How to get rid of a mattress in Stroudsburg, 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: A Stroudsburg resident should not drive a mattress to the borough's recycling drop-off. The Twin Boroughs Recycling Center at 336 Lincoln Avenue (behind Wal Mart), East Stroudsburg, PA 18301, telephone 570-424-5170, is the drop-off the borough's 2026 guide names - 'Recycling can also be dropped off at the Twin Boroughs Recycling Center' - open Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. But the borough's own code puts bedding outside what recycling means here: the Chapter 20, Part 3 definition of NONRECYCLABLE MATERIALS lists, under 'Other waste: ashes, soil, animal feces and carcasses, dirt, furniture, mattresses, and insulation.' The center is defined in the same chapter as the body 'authorized by Borough ordinance to collect recyclable materials from residences', and the code bars haulers from removing recyclables from the borough except to that center. So the drop-off handles the borough's recycling stream, from which the code excludes mattresses by name, and the curbside weekly bulk item remains the borough's route for bedding. Source Not confirmed: The Twin Boroughs Recycling Center publishes no accepted-items list or mattress policy of its own; the exclusion comes from Stroudsburg Borough's code defining mattresses as nonrecyclable materials, not from a refusal printed by the center.

• 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