How to get rid of a mattress in Sandpoint, 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.

• Sandpoint, Idaho requires and contracts garbage service: its Garbage & Recycling page says "Sanitation services are required for city residents for the safety and sanitation of the city. Garbage pickup is provided within the city limits by Waste Management under contract with the City of Sandpoint." Garbage is collected weekly and recycling every other week, containers at the curb by 6:00 am, residential service includes a cart, recycling and weekly pickup (new rates effective September 16, 2026; WM at 208-263-2432, city utility billing 208-263-3561). WM's Sandpoint guidelines say "Garbage charges are based on container size. There is a charge for extra garbage that doesn't fit in your container with the lid closed" and ask that garbage be bagged and put in the cart. The page also says "To request Dump Stickers (issued by Bonner County Solid Waste), please click here", linking to the county's sticker page. Neither the city nor WM names a bulky-item pickup or a mattress on these pages. Source Not confirmed: The rates linked as sanitation rates open as a file titled Water & Wastewater Rates and could not be read, so no Sandpoint residential garbage price or extra-garbage charge is established here. Not confirmed: No WM Sandpoint page read names a bulky-item or mattress pickup; whether one exists by phone could not be established without contacting them. Not confirmed: The city page does not say whether a resident of the city needs a Bonner County sticker to use the county's Colburn and Upland Drive sites; it only links the sticker request.
• Sandpoint's City Code Title 4 Chapter 2 (Garbage and Refuse) sets the local rules. Section 4-2-2(A)(3): "Trash such as boxes, papers, grass clippings, tree cuttings and odd articles shall be crushed and boxed, or bundled in lengths not to exceed five feet (5') and not to exceed fifty (50) pounds in weight. Containers for trash need not be watertight, but should have handles. Any items in excess of these limitations shall be considered a special haul." Section 4-2-2(B): "All trash and garbage shall be collected by the city or the contract collector". Section 4-2-3 has the council fix rates by resolution and requires every occupant to be assessed at least the minimum charge, and 4-2-4(B) says: "It shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor to accumulate trash and garbage or to violate any of the prohibitory or mandatory regulations and other rules authorized and established by this chapter." A twin mattress is 75 inches and a queen 80, over the five-foot limit, so on the code's own limits it would fall outside the trash the ordinance treats as ordinary and be a special haul; the code does not name a mattress. Source Not confirmed: No charge for a special haul was found: the code says a charge is set by resolution and the rate sheet linked from the city page could not be read, so what a special haul costs, and whether one is offered for a mattress, is not established. Not confirmed: The chapter states no set-out window; the 6:00 am container time is from the city's Garbage & Recycling page. Not confirmed: The chapter states no dollar penalty; the fine for a misdemeanour is not established.

• 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