How to get rid of a mattress in Lewiston, 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.

• Lewiston, Idaho does not collect bulky items at the curb. The City of Lewiston, Idaho contracts its curbside service to Sunshine Disposal & Recycling (208-743-4075, lewiston@sunshinedisposal.com): the city's Solid Waste Services page says "Curbside solid waste, yard waste, and recycling collection services are contracted through Sunshine Disposal & Recycling", garbage is collected weekly and recycling every other week. The city's Curbside Cart Material Guidelines, issued with the contractor's number, say under GARBAGE, "ADDITIONAL/BULKY ITEMS: Bring to the Transfer Station 1031 Wild Dove Way", with "NO CONSTRUCTION/DEMOLITION DEBRIS" in the cart, and offer three cart sizes (32, 64 or 96 gallon). The city's Solid Waste Services page states no bulky-item pickup, no mattress rule and no price for one, so the city's published route for bulky household items is the Transfer Station. Source Not confirmed: Neither city page names a mattress; the guideline says only bulky items go to the Transfer Station. Not confirmed: Sunshine Disposal & Recycling's own residential page lists Washington service areas and gives no Lewiston rates or bulky policy; the Lewiston contract terms are not published there. Not confirmed: The city publishes no cart-overflow or extra-bag charge on the pages read.
• Lewiston's own pages name the Transfer Station at 1031 Wild Dove Way, Lewiston, ID 83501 (the city's Transfer Station page prints the Solid Waste Division at 1031 Wild Dove Way, 208-746-0389, and the Curbside Cart Material Guidelines give "Transfer Station 1031 Wild Dove Way" as the place for bulky items and glass), while Nez Perce County's page directs residents to "560 Downriver Road, Lewiston, ID 83501". City Code section 17-28 says the rates "for depositing solid waste at the transfer station shall be as set forth by resolution of the city council", that charges "shall be recorded against the service address identified on the current utility bill", and that "Any person depositing waste material at the transfer station shall produce a copy of their current city utility bill, or county tax assessment, showing the service address from which the waste material was generated". The fee table effective October 1, 2025 names no mattress, and the city's page says household trash and bulky waste is accepted "at no additional charge except as outlined in the Transfer Station Fees table", with 12 cubic yards included each fiscal year and excess haul at $26.25 per cubic yard. Lewiston city-limits residents are barred from Nez Perce County's One Stop Drop stations, so this is the drop-off open to them. Source Not confirmed: The city's own pages give 1031 Wild Dove Way while the county gives 560 Downriver Road for the same Transfer Station; the two addresses are not reconciled by either source, so a reader must confirm before driving. Not confirmed: Because the fee table names no mattress, whether a mattress counts against the 12 cubic yards included or attracts the $26.25 per cubic yard rate is not published. Not confirmed: The city does not say what happens to a mattress after it is tipped; no recycling is claimed.
• Lewiston's Code of Ordinances Chapter 17 (Garbage, Rubbish and Weeds) sets the local rules and names no mattress. Section 17-21(e): "Other than commercial container pickup, all receptacles shall be removed from the collection point within twenty-four (24) hours of service. Any unauthorized accumulation of solid waste or recyclable materials on any premises or failure to remove the receptacle as provided heretofore is hereby prohibited and declared to be a public nuisance and a misdemeanor." Section 17-23(e) allows only small quantities of construction debris in the cart, and 17-28 governs the Transfer Station. Section 17-50 makes it "unlawful for any person to intentionally throw or deposit any litter or rubbish within the corporate limits of the City of Lewiston", and section 17-69 sets the penalty for sections 17-50 through 17-56: an infraction "punishable by a fine of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00)"; a second conviction within two years, an infraction with a fine "not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300.00)"; a third conviction within three years, "a misdemeanor and be punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty (30) days". An owner or contract purchaser of real property in violation faces "a civil infraction" of up to $100, with each day a separate offense. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 17 does not name a mattress, so the litter penalty is not shown to apply to dumping one; it applies to litter and trash. Not confirmed: The chapter sets no window for putting a mattress out, because the curbside service takes bulky items only at the Transfer Station. Not confirmed: The 12 cubic yards included and the Transfer Station charges are set by resolution outside the chapter.

• 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