How to get rid of a mattress in Payette, 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.

• The City of Payette, Idaho (the city, in Payette County; the county landfill is a separate body) has its residential trash picked up by Hardin Sanitation and bills it itself. The City's Utility Billing page lists "Curbside Residential Garbage Pick-Up" among the services the City bills, and says "Garbage is picked up curbside weekly by Hardin Sanitation. The monthly pick-up charge is $14.28, the cart is $2.83 and Idaho sales tax per can is $0.16. The City bills customers within the City limits for this service. If you are located outside City limits you will need to setup service with Hardin Sanitation directly". The page has no bulky-item or mattress terms. Source Not confirmed: The rates on the page ($14.28 plus a $2.83 cart) are older than the 2025 master fee schedule ($16.03); the page has not been updated. Not confirmed: A mattress and any bulky-item fee are not mentioned on the page.
• The City of Payette's 2025 Master Fee Schedule (the amendment list includes "2025-08 Increasing Garbage Rates, Adding Senior Garbage Rate") prices residential trash: "Garbage/Refuse Fees ... Residential Service: City bills and collects. Service Charge $16.03 Once a week pickup; billed monthly", "Senior Rate $14.85", "Cart Rental $3.17 Per month", "Second Cart Rental $3.17 Per month", "Drive in pickup $7.12 Per month". A commercial section, "Hardin bills and collects", follows with container and roll-off rates. There is no bulky-item, oversized-item or mattress line in the residential fees. Source Not confirmed: No fee is set for a bulky-item or mattress pickup in the City's fee schedule, so none is recorded; it is not free.
• Hardin Sanitation's residential page (Payette, Canyon and Washington County) says of oversized items: "Extra garbage and/or lawn refuse (up to 10 extra bags per week) and special pickups of oversized items that will not fit in the container will all gladly be taken for a small additional fee. Just call our Payette waste management company office the day before your regular Hardin trash and recycling service to schedule the extras and/or special pickup to be taken." and "Extras and special pickups will be left unless we receive a phone call granting permission to take them." Weekly collection is Monday through Friday, the Payette County cart is green, and carts should be "at the curb by 6:00 am ... at least 4 feet away from any other object". Unacceptable in the cart are "Tires" and "White goods containing CFC's (appliances)". The office is at 1840 NE 10th Ave, Payette; phone 208-642-2629. Source Not confirmed: The special-pickup fee is "a small additional fee" with no amount, so no price is recorded; no mattress service is created because a mattress is not named on the page. Not confirmed: No disposal or recycling outcome is stated.
• Payette City Code Chapter 8.08 "Garbage and Refuse", read on American Legal (code current through Ordinance 1573, February 2, 2026), defines the item: "BULKY WASTE: Stoves, refrigerators, water tanks, washing machines, furniture and other waste materials other than construction debris, dead animals, hazardous waste or stable matter with weights or volumes greater than those allowed for containers for residential customers" (8.08.010); a mattress is not named. Mandatory, 8.08.020(A): "Every owner or occupant of premises within the city limits must use the refuse collection and disposal system"; occasional self-haul to "an approved Payette County solid waste ... collection site" is allowed but does not exempt the owner from the charge (8.08.020(B)). Franchise, 8.08.040(B): "It is unlawful to engage in the business of collecting, transporting, hauling or conveying of any refuse over the streets or alleys of the city, or to dump or dispose of the same, unless and until such person is licensed therefor or has a contract therefor as an authorized representative of the city." Source Not confirmed: A mattress is not named in the definition; "furniture" is the nearest word. Not confirmed: The general penalty title was not read.
• Payette City Code 8.08.050 to 8.08.090 set the dumping rules. Accumulation, 8.08.050: it is unlawful for an owner or occupant "to allow, permit or to suffer to accumulate in or about any public or private premises any garbage or tin cans, except in covered containers of an approved type ... or any other rubbish so as to cause such premises to be or remain in such condition as to create a nuisance or offensive odor, atmosphere or rodent harborage". Dumping, 8.08.060(A): "No person shall throw, discard or deposit any rubbish, garbage or refuse in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk or vacant ground or in or upon any canal, irrigation ditch, drainage ditch or other watercourse, unless upon express permit granted by the council." (B): "It shall be unlawful for any person to burn, incinerate, bury, dump, or in any other manner dispose of solid waste or recyclable materials within city limits." (C): leaving solid waste at the curb outside a franchisee cart is unlawful "Except as may be allowed by the special collection provisions of this chapter and/or administrative rules". (D) bars depositing any "prohibited waste" as defined in 8.08.010. Source Not confirmed: The sections read carry no penalty and the general penalty title was not read, so a Payette dumping fine is not established. Not confirmed: The code does not address bulky items, mattresses, wrapping, or apartment and HOA rules.
• Payette City Code 8.08.100 to 8.08.190 set collection, fees and special collections. Placement, 8.08.100(A): waste goes "at the street curb, at the inside edge of the sidewalk where the sidewalk is adjacent to the curb, or front property line adjoining the public road or right of way and not in the alley line of said premises upon the day scheduled for pick up for such premises, but shall not be so placed except on collection days"; (B): "The licensed collector shall collect a reasonable accumulation of refuse during a collection period but shall have the authority to refuse to collect unreasonable amounts." Fees, 8.08.110(A): residential collection is "a fee set by resolution per dwelling unit per month". Special collections, 8.08.180: "Nothing in this chapter shall be construed in any manner to affect special collections ordered by the council or proclaimed by the mayor." Franchise, 8.08.190: "No person, other than a franchisee of the city, shall solicit to haul, or haul from any residential or commercial user within the city, any refuse, garbage or recyclable material." Sections 8.08.130, 140, 160 and 170 (fees disposition, disposal site, licensing, materials not acceptable) are marked repealed by Ordinance 1468 of 2019. Source Not confirmed: The code sets no clock time for set-out; Hardin's page says 6:00 am. Not confirmed: The chapter sets no fee or process for a bulky-item pickup; the "small additional fee" is Hardin's. Not confirmed: No penalty section for the chapter was read.
• The Payette City Council's June 16, 2025 packet carries the proposed "Waste Collection Services Franchise Agreement between the City of Payette, Idaho and Hardin Sanitation, Inc." (an "Action Item"), and Section 1.2 defines "Bulky Item - Any item of Municipal Solid Waste measuring in excess of either forty-eight (48) inches in length or fifty (50) pounds in weight, including, but not limited to, refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, water tanks, chairs, couches and other similar household items." Section 2.2(C) says the residential and commercial services "do not include the collection of Bulky Items, Bundles, Construction and Demolition Waste, White Goods or any materials resulting from remodeling, general property clean-up", and Section 2.2(E) leaves the rest to the contractor: "Contractor may provide for the special collection of waste or other materials excluded from this Agreement at its discretion and at a reasonable price negotiated with the customer." Residential service, 2.2(A), is "curbside collection of Solid Waste placed in 95-gallon roll carts". A twin mattress is about 75 inches, so a mattress is longer than the 48-inch line. The same packet has Resolution 2025-08 (rates from July 1, 2025), whose residential schedule has no bulky-item line. Source Not confirmed: This is the packet copy of the agreement: it is unsigned ("DATED this ___ day of ___, 2025") and adoption on June 16, 2025 was not confirmed from minutes, so it records the terms put to Council, not adopted terms. Not confirmed: The agreement leaves the price of a special collection to negotiation with the customer, so no price is set anywhere; that is not the same as free. Not confirmed: A mattress is not named; it falls under "Bulky Item" only by the 48-inch length in the definition.

• 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