How to get rid of a mattress in Swoyersville, 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.

• Swoyersville Borough collects its own refuse, charges by the bag with a borough sticker, and runs the route only twice a month. Chapter 68, Article I of the borough code, the Refuse Disposal Ordinance adopted November 8, 1967, provides: 'Swoyersville Borough requires individual garbage stickers be placed on each garbage bag that is to be collected by the Swoyersville Borough Street Department. Each sticker costs $2. Bags cannot be larger than 33 gallons and weight limit cannot exceed 50 pounds.' That provision was amended January 11, 1990 by Ord. No. 4-1990 and carried into the codified text. Frequency is set at 'Refuse, as hereinbefore defined, excluding ashes as hereinbefore defined, shall be collected by the Borough of Swoyersville twice monthly as determined by the Council of the Borough of Swoyersville.' Containers must be 'placed at ground level and be made readily accessible to the collector' on the side of the street collection is made from, and must be 'durable, watertight, rust-resistant material having a close-fitting lid and handles', 'not less than 10 gallons nor more than 32 gallons in capacity' for a residence. A resident may opt out and hire a hauler instead, but then owns the whole job: 'In the event that any resident of the Borough of Swoyersville shall cause to employ any private garbage hauler or any other hauler, individual, partnership or corporation other than the Borough of Swoyersville for the purpose of refuse removal, said resident shall be responsible for, at the expense of the resident, removal of all recyclable materials as defined in this article as well as for collection of remaining solid waste.' The dumping penalty is a daily one: 'a fine of not less than $300 for each day of violation, and the costs of prosecution, or imprisonment in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for not more than 30 days', with 'Each day's continuance of a violation of this article shall constitute a separate offense.' Construction and collection dumpsters placed in a borough street must sit 'not less than 30 feet from any corner or intersection and a minimum of 15 feet from the neighboring driveways' and carry reflectors on all sides plus 'a minimum of one battery-operated flasher unit'. Source Not confirmed: The code's definition of refuse covers 'All solid wastes, except body wastes, including garbage, ashes and rubbish' and never mentions bulky waste, a bulk item, furniture, a mattress or a box spring. No allowance, sticker count, size limit, wrapping rule or fee for a large item is set anywhere in Chapter 68, so whether the borough street department will take a mattress at all is not established. Not confirmed: The $2 sticker figure is the codified one and the borough publishes no current fee schedule, so it may not be the price charged in 2026.
• Swoyersville Borough's own Garbage & Recycling page carries no rules at all. Checked on November 6, 2026, the page at swoyersvillepa.com/garbageandrecycling renders the heading 'Garbage and Recycling' and then nothing but the borough's contact block: '675 Main Street, Swoyersville, PA 18704', '(570) 288-6581 | swoyboro@comcast.net', 'Hours: Monday - Friday: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM'. The companion 'Garbage and Recycling Calendar' page is empty in the same way, the Street Department page carries only 'ABSOLUTELY NO DUMPING OF ANYTHING AT THE GARAGE!!!', and the Forms & Permits page lists no garbage sticker form. The borough's two 2026 newsletters, the Spring and Fall issues of the Swoyersville Spark, run to community tips, resident pet photos, important dates and a recipe, and carry no bulk-item or mattress rule either. A Swoyersville resident therefore has no published answer on the borough's website and must call the borough office at (570) 288-6581. Source Not confirmed: The borough's Garbage & Recycling page and its garbage and recycling calendar page are both published but empty, so the current sticker price, the collection days and any bulk-item rule are unavailable online. Not confirmed: No borough clean-up day, amnesty event or drop-off for bulky items is published.

• 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