How to get rid of a mattress in Shelley, 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.

• Shelley, Idaho runs its own sanitation: 'Sanitation Services are provided by the city' out of the Public Works Department at 155 E Pine Street (208-357-1991). Residential cans are collected on Tuesdays for the east side of the railroad tracks and Wednesdays for the west side, industrial cans on Monday and Thursday, and the Parks Subdivision on Monday, with the notice 'Please have all cans on the curb before 7:00 A.M. or the night before of scheduled pick up' and a warning that routes 'can change on a weekly basis'. The city's Sanitation chapter (8-6-17) says the monthly charge is set by council resolution and 'posted and maintained in the office of the Clerk'; no rate is published on the website. Nothing on the page offers a bulky-item or mattress collection. Source Not confirmed: The sanitation charge is posted at the clerk's office and is not published online, so no price is known Not confirmed: The page does not mention mattresses or a bulky-item collection outside the clean-up weeks
• Not an option: Shelley, Idaho's spring and fall clean-up excludes furniture. The city says 'Spring Clean Up is usually held in April and Fall Clean up is in October. Please watch on your billing statement for exact dates. These clean up times are for organic debris only. Please do not put household garbage, furniture, or appliances out to be picked up.' The page does not name a mattress. Shelley's own litter chapter defines 'REFUSE' as including 'furniture, bedding' as separate items, and its sanitation chapter 8-6-14(E) lists 'furniture' among waste 'collected and disposed of by the building contractor, person, owner or occupant of the premises'. Source Not confirmed: A mattress is not named; the city excludes 'household garbage, furniture, or appliances' and limits the clean-up to 'organic debris only' Not confirmed: The exact 2026 clean-up dates are sent on the billing statement and are not published on the website
• Shelley, Idaho's sanitation chapter says the city has no duty to remove furniture. Section 8-6-14 (Exceptions to Waste Removal) says the Sanitation Department 'shall have no duty to remove' appliances, large or heavy machines and waste not placed in a compliant container, and lists 'washing machines, refrigerators, hot water tanks, stoves, tree trunks and stumps and other similar materials, dead animals, furniture, building materials' as material that shall be 'collected and disposed of by the building contractor, person, owner or occupant of the premises', adding that every occupant remains 'fully responsible to remove such waste from his or her premises'. Section 8-6-13 has containers placed adjacent to the alley or at the curb 'on the morning of the day scheduled for collection', and 8-6-21 makes a violation of the chapter an infraction. Chapter 5-9-11 makes it unlawful to 'allow the accumulation of litter' on private property and 5-9-13 lets the city clear it and assess the cost against the property after notice and a council hearing. Source Not confirmed: A mattress is not named in section 8-6-14; 'furniture' is the nearest term and Shelley's litter chapter lists 'furniture, bedding' as separate items Not confirmed: The fine for an infraction under the city's criminal code was not read Not confirmed: The chapter does not say what the city charges when it clears litter beyond the actual cost

• 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