How to get rid of a mattress in Coeur d'Alene, ID.

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.

• Coeur d'Alene, Idaho does not run a bulky-item collection and names none: its Sanitation Service page prices residential garbage by cart size from August 1, 2025 (35 gallon $9.50, 64 gallon $10.71, 96 gallon $11.60 a month, each with one single-stream recycle container), collected weekly with recycling every other week, containers out by 6:00 am. It says "Additional charges for extras or toter overload will be billed at the rate of $2.31 per item for both garbage and recycle. Extra garbage or recycle is anything above or beyond your garbage or recycle container. This may include anything left on, next to, or overloading the container." The page sends readers to Coeur d'Alene Garbage at (208) 457-1820 ("To start commercial garbage please contact CdA Garbage directly"), and Kootenai County's list of haulers names "Coeur d'Alene Garbage/Post Falls Sanitation - 208-457-1820". CDA Garbage's own residential page says "Every bag of extra garbage will be subject to extra charge" and "Visit the transfer station when you have excess garbage." Neither the city page nor the hauler's page names a mattress, a box spring or a special pickup. Source Not confirmed: The $2.31 extras charge is for an item left beside the container; nothing published says the hauler will lift a mattress as an extra, so it is not a price for a mattress. Not confirmed: No bulky-item or special-pickup service is published by the city or CDA Garbage; a phone-only arrangement, if one exists, could not be established without contacting them. Not confirmed: The city page does not state whether Coeur d'Alene Garbage is the contractor for residential service as well as commercial; it links to the company's website and the county's hauler list names it.
• Coeur d'Alene's Municipal Code Chapter 8.04 (Garbage) names the mattress in its definitions: RUBBISH is defined to include "used and discarded mattresses", and TRASH is defined as "Any matter defined herein as 'bulky waste', 'construction debris', 'dead animals', 'hazardous materials', 'rubbish', or 'stable matter'". BULKY WASTE is "Stoves, refrigerators, water tanks, washing machines, furniture and other waste materials other than construction debris, dead animals, hazardous materials or stable matter with weights or volumes greater than those allowed for containers", and a CONTAINER with its contents may not exceed 75 pounds. Section 8.04.040 lets the mayor and council collect waste by the city or by contract, and 8.04.050 says disposal "shall be at the city/county landfill". The chapter makes service mandatory ("Every resident or owner within the city is required to use the collection and disposal system established by the city") and 8.04.100 declares: "It shall be a misdemeanor as defined in section 1.28.010 of this code to accumulate garbage and/or trash, or to violate any of the prohibitory or mandatory regulations or any of the rules authorized by this chapter". On the code's own definitions, a discarded mattress is trash and therefore trash. Separately, section 8.36.100 makes it "unlawful for any person to dispose of, throw away or leave any empty container or other litter on any public park, grounds, parking facility or thoroughfare within the city" and calls a violation an infraction. Source Not confirmed: The fine for a misdemeanour is set in section 1.28.010, which was not read, so no dollar penalty for accumulating or dumping a mattress is established. Not confirmed: Section 8.36.100 covers litter and empty containers on public land; it does not name a mattress or a bulky item, so it is not shown to apply to dumping one. Not confirmed: The chapter sets no set-out window; the 6:00 am container time comes from the city's Sanitation page, not the code.
• Not an option: Habitat for Humanity of North Idaho's ReStore, at 176 W. Wyoming Ave., Hayden, ID 83835 (9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, yard closes at 4 p.m.; 208-762-4352 for a large-donation pickup), states that it will not accept "used mattresses, items covered in pet hair, tires, older TVs, desktop computers or printers". Source Not confirmed: The page does not say which ReStore serves Coeur d'Alene residents; the Hayden store is the one on this page.

• The Almo roll-off station is a real, separate district facility and the "Oakley Transfer Station Accepts" heading printed above its accepted-items list is a mislabelled panel, not a sign that the Almo card belongs to Oakley. The district's own FY-27 customer pricing enumerates the Cassia County sites by name as "Albion Oakley Malta Almo", giving each one its own rate table, and Almo's table is not a copy of Oakley's: where Albion, Oakley and Malta each show "Mixed Municipal Solid Waste No Charge" in county and a "Wood Waste No Charge" row, Almo's table shows "Mixed Municipal Solid Waste $12.00/CY" in county and carries no wood waste row at all. That matches the accepted list under the Almo card on the locations page, which lists municipal solid waste, mixed construction, demolition waste, freon-containing white goods, tires, scrap metal and batteries and omits the "Clean green wood waste" that the Oakley card's list includes - the two lists differ in exactly the way the two price tables differ. The Almo card also carries its own address, 2480 Almo/Elba Rd, its own telephone number, 208-638-5565, and hours of Thursday through Saturday 8:30am-5:30pm, all distinct from the Oakley card at 985 S Worthington with 208-539-0342. The panel headings are demonstrably unreliable on this page: the Albion and Oakley cards are both labeled "ROLL-OFF STATION" while their headings read "Albion Transfer Station" and "Oakley Transfer Station". So the identity is right and the heading is wrong, and the list under the Almo card is Almo's list. Source
• What the district actually lists, in full, is fourteen facilities: one landfill, nine transfer stations and four roll-off stations. Milner Butte Landfill, 1050 W 400 S Burley, 208-432-9082, Mon-Sat 8:00am-4:30pm. Nine transfer stations: Twin Falls, 2186 Orchard Dr E Twin Falls, 208-734-3139, Mon-Sat 7:30am-5:00pm; Jerome County, 1178 Highway 25 Jerome, 208-825-4150, Mon-Sat 8:00am-5:30pm; Ohio Gulch, 110 Ohio Gulch Rd Hailey, 208-788-2351, Mon-Sat 8:00am-5:00pm; Minidoka County, 325 N 400 W Rupert, 208-438-5593, Mon-Sat 7:30am-5:00pm; Gooding County, 2743 Highway 46 Wendell, 208-536-2181, Mon-Sat 8:00am-5:30pm; Lincoln County, 120 N Highway 75 Shoshone, 208-731-8510, Mon-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm; West End, 4200 N 900 E Buhl, 208-543-4054, Mon-Sat 9:00am-5:00pm; Carey, 19299 US-20 Carey, 208-823-4308, Wed-Sat 8:00am-5:00pm; Hub Butte, 2900 N 2800 E Twin Falls, 208-734-5271, Mon-Fri 9:00am-5:00pm. Four roll-off stations: Oakley, 985 S Worthington Oakley, 208-539-0342; Albion, 760 S Highway 77 Albion, 208-673-6610; Malta, 2450 E 1760 S Malta, 208-645-2675; Almo, 2480 Almo/Elba Rd Almo, 208-638-5565. The FY-27 pricing schedule enumerates the same thirteen non-landfill sites independently, grouped by county - Twin Falls County: Twin Falls, Hub Butte, Buhl; Jerome; Blaine: Ohio Gulch, Carey; Minidoka; Gooding; Lincoln; Cassia: Albion, Oakley, Malta, Almo - plus Milner Butte. The whole site is thirty-six pages and holds no per-facility pages, so these two lists are the district's only enumerations and they agree exactly. Source
• District is a local-government unit for Blaine, Cassia, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka and Twin Falls. Overview claims one landfill plus fourteen transfer stations; the linked directory contains fourteen total facility cards. Source
• Idaho DEQ says it does not directly regulate recycling facilities and links a 'Contact County Solid Waste Departments' document for local options. No mattress content. No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on Idaho DEQ pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source
• Every rate published by the Southern Idaho Solid Waste District - which is the disposal authority for Blaine, Cassia, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka and Twin Falls counties - comes from its FY-27 customer pricing schedule, and that schedule takes effect on October 1, 2026. It is the only schedule the district publishes: the preceding year's rates are not on its site, so there is no earlier figure to quote and no way to compare the two. A reader who checks a district price before October 1, 2026 is reading the incoming rate rather than the one in force that day, and should expect the published figure to be what they are charged from that date onward. The rates themselves are recorded against each county's own facilities. Source