How to get rid of a mattress in Wilson, 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.

• Wilson Borough's code authorizes a charge for special collections and never sets one. Article XIII of the Borough of Wilson Municipal Solid Waste Ordinance, added September 9, 1991 by Ord. No. 630, provides that 'the Council of the Borough of Wilson shall from time to time, by resolution, establish a schedule of fees for the collection of recyclables thereof and amend said schedule and system from time to time as the need for amendment may arise,' and then adds: 'The Council may also establish a schedule of fees for special collections.' No such special-collection schedule is published. The same article sets a set-out rule with teeth — 'it shall be unlawful for any person to place a recycling container or designated material out for collection more than 24 hours prior to the determined collection period' — and a graduated penalty: a first offense draws 'an official written warning of noncompliance,' and after that a violation carries 'a fine of not more than $500 and costs of prosecution or, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment for not more than 30 days,' each day a separate violation. The ordinance's definition of the trash category itself covers 'all waste materials not included in garbage and ashes, and other waste materials which result from the ordinary conduct of housekeeping' but excludes 'abandoned heavy or bulky machinery or such other waste material as do not normally emanate from or are not commonly produced in homes, stores and institutions.' Source Not confirmed: No schedule of fees for special collections has been adopted or published, so the charge the code authorizes has no amount. Not confirmed: Ordinance No. 810, which revised the borough's refuse and recycling fee schedule effective September 1, 2023, is published only as a scanned image with no readable text, so its figures could not be read. Not confirmed: Neither the definitions article nor the recycling article names a mattress.

• 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