How to get rid of a mattress in Jerome, 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.

• In Jerome, Idaho the city bills for sanitation but its own pages do not say who drives the truck. The Utility Division 'handles the billing services for water, sewer, sanitation charges and irrigation assessments' from 152 E Avenue A (208-324-8189 ext. 2), residential accounts carry a $15 sanitation deposit, and Jerome City Code 13.28.050 and Ordinances 1093, 1100 and 1101 require billing in the real property owner's name. Section 8.04.050 of the city code gives 'the city, its duly authorized agents, contractors, employees, or licensees' the 'exclusive right to collect and gather garbage and rubbish', requires every household to 'use the city's collection service whether the system is operated by the city, its agents, employees, contractors or licensees', and says 'The current set of fees and charges for collection shall be retained in the office of the city clerk'. Section 8.04.130 lets the city haul with its own crews or contract or license a hauler. Source Not confirmed: Neither the city's utility pages nor the code sections read name the collector; a hauler named in third-party listings was not treated as primary evidence Not confirmed: The sanitation fee schedule is kept at the clerk's office and is not published on the city website Not confirmed: No curbside bulky-item or mattress collection is published
• Jerome, Idaho runs a city dump-truck service for homes: 'The City of Jerome provides a dump truck service for residential properties. The dump truck can be requested for any day of the week. The truck will be delivered to the desired location early on the requested morning and will be picked up the following morning. The city has 3 trucks available and are on a first come first serve basis. There is a $30 charge for this service, and there are limitations as to what can be placed in them.' It is booked in person at City Hall by completing an application, and the page says these services 'are only available during the summer months'. The page does not list the limitations and does not name a mattress. Source Not confirmed: The 'limitations as to what can be placed in them' are not listed, so whether a mattress may go in the truck is not established Not confirmed: The page does not define 'the summer months' or give season dates Not confirmed: The page says application is made in person at City Hall; no phone or online booking is published
• Jerome, Idaho's code allows special hauls of odd articles and treats bulky furniture as a general nuisance. Section 8.04.070(B) says 'Boxes, paper, tree cuttings and all odd articles shall be crushed or bundled in lengths not to exceed five feet (5') and not to exceed fifty (50) pounds in weight; except, that articles may be taken in special hauls by special arrangements with the garbage and trash collector', and that 'no property owner or occupant of real property within the city shall permit the presence or accumulation of refuse on real property'. Section 8.04.080 puts receptacles in front of the premises 'on the morning of the day scheduled for collection', 8.04.090 lets street-side receptacles stand only for two hours before collection, and 8.04.100 has residence-district garbage 'picked up weekly'. Section 8.08.010 lists among 'General Nuisance' conditions that 'may lead to criminal charges without any prior attempt by the City to obtain abatement' 'Bulky Waste: Stoves, refrigerators, water tanks, washing machines, furniture, appliances, and other waste materials' beyond container limits, and 8.04.170 makes every violation of the garbage chapter 'a misdemeanor'. Source Not confirmed: A mattress is not named in the sections read; 'furniture' is the nearest word Not confirmed: The charge for a 'special haul' is not set by the code, and the fee schedule sits at the clerk's office Not confirmed: The penalty for a misdemeanour under the city's general penalty section was not read

• 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