How to get rid of a mattress in Post Falls, 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.

• Post Falls, Idaho runs collection through its municipal utility bill: the city's Utility Billing Division says "Garbage pickup is every week" with single-stream recycling every other week, that carts go "at the curbside by 6 am on your regular scheduled pickup day", and warns of "significant charges for cart overloads and extras", saying "There is an additional charge for extra bags and any service requiring the driver to leave the truck" and "Visit the transfer station when you have excess garbage." It names no bulky-item pickup, no mattress and no hauler on the page; Kootenai County's list of garbage haulers names "Coeur d'Alene Garbage/Post Falls Sanitation - 208-457-1820", and the city page links a Utility Rates PDF and a Kootenai County Solid Waste Handbook. Source Not confirmed: The Utility Rates PDF was not read, so no extras charge or bulky-item charge for Post Falls is established. Not confirmed: The city page does not name the company that collects; the hauler is taken from the county's list and CDA Garbage's own site, which serves Post Falls. Not confirmed: No bulky-item pickup is published; a mattress is not named on the city page.
• Post Falls Municipal Code Chapter 13.32 (Solid Waste Collection and Disposal) sets the local rules. Section 13.32.020: "There is established a municipal system of Refuse collection, transportation and disposal. It is unlawful for any Person to engage in the business of collecting, transporting, hauling or conveying for commercial purposes any Refuse over the streets or alleys unless and until such Person has a contract therefor as an authorized representative of the city." Section 13.32.030: "Every Owner or Occupant of premises within the city limits must use the Refuse collection and disposal system". Section 13.32.040 makes it unlawful to "dump, deposit or dispose of Garbage or solid or liquid Waste in any solid Waste disposal containers or at any location for solid Waste collection pick up unless said containers or pick up location are designated for that Person's use". Section 13.32.050 limits a container to "seventy-five (75) pounds in weight and thirty-two (32) gallons in size, unless renting a toter specified by the city", and lets brush or "any bulky material" be set out tied in bundles "not to exceed four (4) feet in length", which a mattress at 75 to 80 inches exceeds. Section 13.32.090 refuses dirt, rocks, automobile parts, dead animals and building materials. Section 13.32.100: "No Persons shall throw, discard or deposit 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." Section 13.32.070 sets collection fees by council resolution. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 13.32 as posted contains no penalty section; the general penalty in Title 1 was not read, so no dollar penalty for dumping a mattress is established. Not confirmed: The chapter names no mattress and sets no set-out window; the 6 am time is from the utility page. Not confirmed: The four-foot bundle limit is written for brush and other bulky material tied in bundles; it is not shown to be the rule for a mattress.
• Not an option: Habitat for Humanity of North Idaho's ReStore, at 176 W. Wyoming Ave., Hayden, ID 83835 (9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 208-762-4352), the ReStore of that organization, states that it will not accept "used mattresses, items covered in pet hair, tires, older TVs, desktop computers or printers". Source Not confirmed: The page does not say which ReStore serves Post Falls residents; the Hayden store is the one on this page.

• 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