How to get rid of a mattress in Middleton, 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.

• Middleton, Idaho (Canyon County; not Middleton, Wisconsin or Massachusetts) has its trash collected by Republic Services under a contract the City holds and bills for. The City of Middleton's Utility Policies (FY2025, October 2024) say: "The City contracts with Republic Services to provide solid waste disposal for trash and recycling. These services are required for all City residents and are non-cancellable." Residential rates on the same document: "Trash: $14.98 + $0.13 tax ($13.65 + $0.13 tax if resident is 62 or older)" and "Recycling: $5.35 + $0.13 tax (if resident is 62 or older free) Picked up every other week", billed by the City with water and sewer; Republic Services is listed at 208-466-3302. The document does not mention bulky items or a mattress. Source Not confirmed: The trash and recycling rates quoted are the FY2025 figures; the FY2026 figures were not found on this document. Not confirmed: A mattress and any bulky-item fee are not mentioned in the City's utility policies.
• The City of Middleton's FY2026 fee schedule (approved July 15, 2026, "FY2026 approved 7.15.26 Fee Schedule with attachments") has a "TRASH" heading with one line under it in the fee column: "See Republic Services Fee Table". No Republic fee table is attached to the schedule, and the schedule has no bulky-item, large-item or mattress line. Source Not confirmed: No Republic fee table was found attached to the schedule, so a large-item or mattress fee for Middleton is not published in any document read; it is not free.
• The City of Middleton's residential trash and recycling guide (2018) says under Bulky Waste & Appliances: "Republic Services provides appliance, furniture and other large item collection for an additional fee. Bulky items must be outside and visible to the driver. To arrange for a special pick-up call (208) 466-3302." and "Free pick-up of bulky items and non-Freon appliances is available every year during Spring Clean Up Week in April. Refer to the annual service calendar for specific dates. You must call ahead to schedule bulky waste service." It also says "Annual free trash day at the landfill is the 4th Saturday in April", that "Trash and recycling must be set out by 7am with the lids closed", that carts come in "within 24 hours", and that "Loose trash bags and boxes will not be collected." It does not name a mattress. Source Not confirmed: The guide is from 2018; whether the free clean-up week, its month, the landfill free day or the phone number still apply was not established. Not confirmed: A mattress is not named as accepted or refused; "furniture" is the nearest word. Not confirmed: The fee for a special pick-up is not published, so no price and no service are recorded. Not confirmed: The landfill free day is not identified by site; the guide does not name the Canyon County landfill.
• A City of Middleton notice headed "Spring Clean-Up has Moved to Fall!" (2020) gives "New Clean-Up Week: September 14-18, 2020" and says "Furniture, non-Freon appliances and bulky items that will not fit in your trash cart will be collected for FREE during the Fall Clean-Up Week. Call Republic Services (208-345-1265) or email csidaho@republicservices.com anytime to schedule". Its "Yes" list includes "Large and small furniture/household items" and "Non-Freon appliances"; its "No" list is "Liquid Waste", "Hazardous Waste", "Freon Appliances" and "Tires". A mattress is not named on either list. Source Not confirmed: The notice is from 2020 and refers to a COVID-19 move; no later edition was found, so the current month and terms of Middleton's free clean-up are not established. Not confirmed: A mattress is neither accepted nor refused by name; the absence from an itemized "No" list is a gap, not a refusal and not an acceptance.
• Middleton City Code Title 8 "Nuisances", Chapter 1, read on American Legal (Middleton, ID), sets the local rules. Prohibited nuisance 8-1-2(B)(11): "The accumulation of and/or failure to lawfully dispose of solid waste." Refuse, 8-1-3: every owner or occupant must "keep that property free from any accumulation or scattering of refuse"; the City may, "after five (5) days' notice", remove it and bill the owner, with unpaid charges after thirty days "assessed against the property". Garbage, 8-1-4: "it shall be unlawful for any person to place any grass trimmings, garbage or rubbish upon any road, alley, sidewalk, public place or open lot in the city"; each occupant "shall obtain a city approved receptacle"; and, 8-1-4(A)(2), "Except within twenty four (24) hours before or after the scheduled pick up, it shall be unlawful for any person to place any receptacle upon any road, alley, sidewalk, or public property in the city." Franchise, 8-1-4(B): "No person shall engage in the business of collecting, gathering, hauling, conveying, or transporting garbage or rubbish upon the roads or alleys of the city without first obtaining a franchise therefor from the city"; rates are set "from time to time by resolution of the city council" (8-1-4(C)). Source Not confirmed: The set-out window in the code is 24 hours before and after pick-up; the 7am cut-off comes from the 2018 guide, not the code. Not confirmed: No penalty for the garbage sections was found in the sections read; abatement procedure 8-1-12 refers to a penalty "for noncompliance" without stating it, and Title 1 was not read. Not confirmed: The code does not address bulky items, mattresses, wrapping, or apartment and HOA rules.

• 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