How to get rid of a mattress in Pocatello, 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.

• Pocatello, Idaho collects household garbage itself: 'Sanitation Services provides City of Pocatello utility customers weekly curbside garbage service' from a 96-gallon cart, out of the sanitation yard at 2405 Garrett Way (208-234-6192, Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.). Service is billed on the city utility account, and the city's own rate sheet puts the residential cart at $21.49 a month plus a $2.17 billing fee from October 1, 2026 (it was $20.86 plus $2.10 before that date). The same city page says carts go out 'no earlier than 6:00 p.m. the day before and no later than 7:00 a.m. on the collection day', and 'one-time additional pickups may be requested for a fee per cart per pickup'. Nothing on the garbage-collection page says a mattress, furniture or any bulky item may be set out beside the cart. Source Not confirmed: The garbage-collection page does not mention mattresses, furniture or bulky items at all, so neither an allowance nor a refusal is published there Not confirmed: The per-cart fee for a one-time additional pickup is not stated on that page
• Pocatello, Idaho's Sanitation Rates page, which the city headed 'effective October 1, 2026 - September 30, 2027', lists under General Services an 'Oversize/Large Object Collection Fee' of $25.00 per collection, next to a $2.17 monthly billing fee. The page does not define an oversize or large object, does not name a mattress, and does not say how the collection is booked, whether it happens on the regular collection day, or how many items one collection covers. The city's previous rate sheet (Fiscal Year 2026, effective October 1, 2025) carries no such line, so the charge is new from October 1, 2026. Source Not confirmed: A mattress is not named as an oversize or large object, so the $25.00 charge cannot be tied to a mattress Not confirmed: No booking method, notice period, item limit, set-out rule or wrapping rule is published for the oversize collection Not confirmed: The city states no residency or account condition for the oversize collection
• Pocatello, Idaho's 'Partners in Pride' container program lets residential customers use either a 3-yard container or a 17-yard roll-off 'to remove unwanted items, property cleanups, or other projects that generate more waste than usual'. The city says it is 'offered free of charge to qualifying residential customers at their primary residence once per calendar year' on a first-come, first-served basis, reserved by calling 208-234-6192, with next year's reservations opening on the first business day of December. The 3-yard container is dumped twice at no charge and the 17-yard is dumped once at no charge; deliveries are on Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays between 7:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., and containers 'must be placed on the street' unless a liability waiver is signed. The lists of what cannot go in name 'Rocks, bricks, concrete, and asphalt shingles', refrigerators, freezers, hazardous waste, tires and undried paint, and require items to be small enough to fit and larger pieces to be cut down. Mattresses appear on neither list. Source Not confirmed: Mattresses and furniture are absent from the list of what cannot go in the containers, but they are not named as accepted either; an absence from that list is not permission Not confirmed: The page says larger pieces 'need to be cut down', which is not something a mattress can be asked to do; whether a whole mattress may go in is not stated Not confirmed: The program is limited to 'qualifying residential customers' and the page does not define who qualifies
• Pocatello, Idaho's code sets the carts-at-the-curb window in law. Section 13.28.090(D) requires containers to be 'placed at or near the curb line' so as to be 'easily seen and readily available for pick up on the regular collection day(s)', and 'no earlier than six o'clock (6:00) P.M. on the day prior to collection and no later than seven o'clock (7:00) A.M. on the day of collection'. Under 13.28.090(H), refuse not 'fully contained within approved receptacles' is a violation subject to 'special pick-up charges in accordance to current policy, and/or a separate misdemeanor citation ... for each day on which the violation continues'. Section 13.28.020 makes the city 'or its duly authorized contractor' the 'sole proprietor' to collect all garbage or refuse placed for collection and makes private removal for profit unlawful. Source Not confirmed: The 'special pick-up charges in accordance to current policy' are not set out in the code section, and no policy amount was found Not confirmed: Section 13.28.090 does not mention mattresses or bulky items
• Pocatello, Idaho's nuisance code names mattresses. Section 8.14.040(A) requires all land and outdoor areas to be kept free of, among other things, 'any accumulations of litter, garbage, debris, waste material, accumulations of appliances and/or furniture ... mattresses, bedding' and other listed material, and 8.14.040(C) bars storing 'furniture in disrepair' unless kept in a fully enclosed building. Section 13.28.200(A) makes it 'unlawful for any person ... to dump or dispose in any manner of' garbage, refuse, trash or construction debris 'on vacant lots or other private property or upon any public property or public right of way'. Section 9.16.180(A) makes littering upon streets, alleys or public or private property an infraction, and a third conviction within three years a misdemeanour 'punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty (30) days'; 9.16.180(F) makes any violation of that section a misdemeanor. Source Not confirmed: The penalty for a violation of 8.14.040 or 13.28.200 is not stated in those sections and the general penalty provision was not read Not confirmed: No apartment or landlord rule specific to mattress disposal was found in the sections read

• 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