How to get rid of a mattress in Kuna, 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.

• Kuna City Code Title 8, Chapter 4, the "Solid and Recyclable Waste Collection System and Service Ordinance" (repealed and re-enacted by Ord. 2023-21, September 19, 2023), read on Municode, sets the rules. Large items, 8-4-12(C): "Collection of large items requires advance arrangements to be made by a premises owner directly with contractor, which pick-up shall require payment of a fee to be paid in accordance the city fee schedule. Such large items must be placed curb side in order for contractor to collect such large items." A "LARGE ITEM" (8-4-3) is "commercially reasonable in size and weight" and anything "excessive in size or weight shall be subject to additional charges and/or may be rejected by the contractor". Free events, 8-4-12(C): the contractor must provide free large-item collection at "(i) Christmas tree collection (annually in early January); (ii) large items set out in connection with the annual 'Kuna Clean Up' event (limitations to be identified from time to time by contractor); and (iii) fall leaf collection". Set-out, 8-4-10(C): the alley-placement paragraph says "no later than seven o'clock (7:00) a.m. on the contractor's regularly scheduled collection day, but no sooner than the evening prior to collection", and owners "must retrieve empty wheeled carts within twenty-four (24) hours of being serviced". Placement outside a cart is unlawful, 8-4-10(B): "It shall be unlawful for any person to (i) leave solid waste at the curb for collection in any receptacle other than a contractor owned and supplied standard container". Accumulation, 8-4-16: it is unlawful "to place or accumulate ... solid waste, recyclable solid waste, or large item(s) on the premises, or on any public or private lot, yard, street, alley, sidewalk"; after written notice with up to five days to correct, "A violation of this subsection shall be punishable by an administrative citation. However, after a responsible party receives an administrative citation charging a third or subsequent offense, the city may pursue a misdemeanor charge". Other violations go to Title 1, Chapter 4 (8-4-17). Prohibited waste, 8-4-13, includes tires and "Any equipment or machines containing refrigerants". Source Not confirmed: The Kuna Clean Up event is free under the code, but its limits are set by the contractor and no mattress is named in the code; a 2023 local radio report says mattresses were among the bulky items taken that year, which is a secondary source and is not relied on. Not confirmed: The Title 1 Chapter 4 penalty and the administrative-citation amount were not read. Not confirmed: The code says "the city fee schedule" sets the large-item fee and that schedule was not found.
• J&M Sanitation's "2026 IMPORTANT DATES" sheet lists the year's "2026 COLLECTION EVENTS": "Christmas Tree Removal - January", "Hazardous Waste Collection - 3rd Wednesday of January, July, October", "Annual Kuna Clean up - April/May TBD", "Fall Leaf Removal - November", under the line "ALL DATES ARE TO BE DETERMINED; EVENT FLYERS WILL COME WITH YOUR BILLING". It gives the holiday shifts for six holidays and says to phone J&M at 208-922-3313 to "add a dumpster for a few days". The sheet does not say what the Kuna Clean Up takes and does not name a mattress. Source Not confirmed: The Kuna Clean Up's dates and accepted items for 2026 were not published on the sheet. Not confirmed: A mattress is not named on the sheet.

• 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