How to get rid of a mattress in Idaho Falls, 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.

• Idaho Falls City Code Title 8 Chapter 6 (Sanitation Service) sets the local rules. Section 8-6-14(A): "Prior to 7 a.m., local time, on the day scheduled for collection, all waste containers shall be placed at the street curb or inside edge of the sidewalk", and 8-6-14(D) requires City-provided containers at least three feet from any obstruction. Section 8-6-15 lists waste the city has "no duty to remove", including "(B) Appliances (including white goods), large or heavy machines, tree trunks, or other debris or waste not placed within a waste container meeting the requirements of this Chapter" and "(E) Waste not contained in City-provided containers, unless otherwise allowed by this Chapter or specifically authorized by the City". The chapter's definition of REFUSE lists "furniture, bedding", and 8-6-6 makes it unlawful "to deposit or bury refuse in or upon any public alley, street, park or other public property, or upon the premises of another without the consent of the occupant of such other property". Section 8-6-17 makes it unlawful "for any person to conduct, engage or otherwise participate in any private business, undertaking, or enterprise for the removal or disposal of waste for pecuniary gain or profit", with an exception for "any licensed recycling business, salvage yard, second-hand dealer or other similarly licensed enterprise". The city's Sanitation page is where a mattress is authorized for collection, by appointment. The chapter names no penalty of its own; Title 1 Chapter 4 of the same code sets a general misdemeanour penalty ("a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or by both") for a crime with no specific penalty stated. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 8-6 states no penalty for dumping or for setting waste out unlawfully; the general penalty in Title 1 section 1-4-1 is worded for a crime with no specific penalty and the chapter does not say that a violation of 8-6-6 is a crime, so the actual penalty for dumping a mattress is not established. Not confirmed: The Chapter 6 PDF's latest amendment is Ord. 3235 of December 20, 2018; the city's page for the code does not say whether it is current. Not confirmed: The code does not name a mattress; it is covered only by the general words furniture, bedding and refuse.
• Idaho Falls ran its Clean & Green Citywide Cleanup over three weekends in May 2026, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.: 7 to May 9 at Russ Freeman Park and the Sweeper Dump, 14 to May 16 at Mel Erickson Sunnyside Park and the Aquatic Center parking lot, and 21 to May 23 at the Old Butte Soccer Complex and the Garfield Sub Station. The city's page says "This cleanup accepts household solid waste, brush, construction waste, and bulk items" and lists as not accepted at the main event demolition material, tires, large appliances and metal, directing metal and large appliances to Pacific Recycling or the Bonneville County Transfer Station. Neither the accepted nor the refused list names a mattress or a box spring; bulk items is the only category that could contain one. Source Not confirmed: A mattress is absent from both lists on the page, so whether the cleanup took one is not established; this is a gap, not a refusal. Not confirmed: The page states no eligibility rule, no cost and no per-household limit for the main event, and does not say whether the cleanup is held again after May 2026.
• Not an option: Habitat for Humanity Idaho Falls Area's ReStore, at 1954 N Yellowstone Hwy, Idaho Falls, ID 83401 (208-552-0491, donation hours Monday through Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM), lists under "Excluded Donations": "Mattresses and box springs". Its accepted list names bed frames but not mattresses, and the page adds that "Acceptability is at the discretion of the drop-off staff based on condition and inventory levels." Source

• 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