How to get rid of a mattress in Moscow, 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.

• Moscow, Idaho is outside Latah County's collection system and runs its own: the City of Moscow's Sanitation page says "Inland North Waste handles residential and commercial collections for Moscow" (208-882-5724; city utility billing 208-883-7040), weekly for garbage and every other week for recycling, in roll carts. The city's Sanitation Rates for fiscal year 2026 (October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026) are 35 gallon $22.14, 65 gallon $28.43 and 95 gallon $34.78 a month, with an On Demand 35-gallon service at a $16.74 monthly base plus $2.10 each time, and an over-service penalty of "$6.60 per bag, can, or equivalent" and "Loose Yardage = $34.44 per cubic yard". Carts go out by 7:00 a.m. and come in within 24 hours (Inland North Waste), or by noon the day after collection under the city code. The city publishes no bulky-item pickup, no clean-up day and no mattress collection; Latah County's own pages exclude Moscow city residents by name from its free Bulky Waste Saturdays and say its mandatory fee does not apply inside any city's limits. Source Not confirmed: Neither the city's Sanitation page nor its rate page names a mattress, a bulky-item pickup or a special-pickup price; the over-service charge is for bags and cans and is not shown to apply to a mattress, and the city code bars bulky waste from household collection. Not confirmed: The rates are those for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026; the city's page says rates are updated each October and the FY 2027 schedule was not published on the page read.
• Moscow City Code Title 9 Chapter 9 (Solid Waste) names the mattress. Section 9-2 defines Bulky Waste as "Stoves, refrigerators, water tanks, washing machines, furniture, appliances, springs, mattresses, carpets, demolition, commercial, industrial, ... cement, concrete, sheetrock, sod, dirt, tires, rock, loose branches, any item weighing over sixty (60) pounds or over four feet (4') in length", and defines Household Waste as waste that fits "into a Bag, Roll Cart Container or Bundle less than four feet (4') in length" and "Does not include Bulky, Infectious or Hazardous Wastes". Section 9-9(G): "Broken concrete, rocks, plaster, discarded building materials, trees, large tree limbs and other Bulky waste may not be placed for collection as Household Waste." Section 9-9 also says bags "must weigh less than thirty five (35) pounds" and that "Overfilled or overloaded Containers may result in additional charges to the Producer(s)", and requires roll carts to be removed "by 12:00 p.m. (noon) local time on the next day following the scheduled collection day". Section 9-12(A) makes it unlawful "to deposit the same on vacant lots or private property", and section 9-16 says "Any person violating any of the provisions of this Chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor", with each day or incident a separate offense. A twin mattress is 75 inches and a queen 80, so it is over the four-foot limit and is Bulky Waste on the code's own terms as well as by name. Moscow sets no window for putting a mattress out because the code bars it from the weekly collection. Source Not confirmed: The code PDF's latest amendment shown is Ord. 2013-07 (April 15, 2013); the city does not say on its page whether the posted copy is current. Not confirmed: Section 9-16 says a violator is punished "pursuant to this Code and the Idaho Code" without a dollar amount, so no fine for dumping a mattress is established. Not confirmed: The code does not say who may collect a mattress or where it goes; that is left to the franchise agreement, which was not read.
• Inland North Waste's page for the Solid Waste Processing Facility, 3299 ID-8, Moscow, ID 83843, says it is "available to all CITY OF MOSCOW AND LATAH COUNTY residents and businesses", open April through October 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM and November through March 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and files mattresses under Municipal Solid Waste: "Household waste, animal bones and hides, animal waste, treated grain, treated lumber, cold ashes, mattresses, upholstered furniture, and dishwashers." It states "There is a $10 minimum fee to use the facility" covering up to 200 lbs of household materials, up to 460 lbs of demolition waste or up to 280 lbs of mixed waste, and per-ton rates of $105.34 for Solid Waste, $41.73 for Demolition Waste, $72.17 for Mixed Waste (Transfer/Demolition) and $325 for tires, with brush, clean wood, metal and residential appliances accepted free. It adds "Rates for the Waste Processing Facility are set annually by the City of Moscow and updated each October." The county's own page classes mattresses as Inert/Demolition Waste and the operator classes them as Municipal Solid Waste; a mattress of 50 to 100 lb sits under the 200 lb and the 460 lb allowance alike, so on either reading the published charge for one is the $10 minimum. That is arithmetic on the published allowances, not a published mattress price. Source Not confirmed: The operator and the county disagree on whether a mattress is household or demolition waste; the operator's per-ton rates ($105.34 or $41.73) matter only above the allowance, and the page does not say which applies to a load of several mattresses. Not confirmed: The operator's hours do not state which days it opens; the county's page gives Monday through Saturday. Not confirmed: The rates are stated to be updated each October, so the $10 minimum and per-ton rates may change within days of this check; the page carries no date. Not confirmed: The page does not say what happens to a mattress after it is tipped; no recycling is claimed.

• 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