How to get rid of a mattress in Astoria, OR.

If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean. Oregon law requires some of them to offer this; those come first.

IKEA

Ask provider

Mattress purchase with delivery in California, Connecticut, Oregon or Rhode Island. Arranged via IKEA customer service; state recycling fee charged at purchase. Source

Casper

Free

Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. Source

Purple

Free

Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source

Raymour & Flanigan

Free

New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Astoria and its neighbors.

• Clatsop County runs no collection service of its own, but it does run a free-disposal voucher. Under the Let's Talk Trash campaign, Code Compliance operates the Solid Waste Abatement Program (SWAP): property owners and occupants who are victims of illegal dumping - solid waste dumped on their property without their permission - can get a voucher usable at the Astoria transfer station covering up to one ton of solid waste, at no cost to them. The county describes the covered material as household garbage, construction debris, abandoned appliances or tires. Applications go through Nancy Mendoza, 503-325-8611, and a SWAP application form is published with the page. Source Not confirmed: The page does not name mattresses in the covered material, so it is not established that a dumped mattress qualifies. Not confirmed: It does not state a deadline, an annual cap per property, or whether the voucher can be used for a resident's own waste rather than waste dumped on them.
• Recology Western Oregon's drop-off directory shows that apart from the Astoria Transfer Station, every other Clatsop County drop-off point is a recycling depot that takes no refuse and therefore no mattress. The Seaside Depot, 7 N Roosevelt Drive, Seaside, takes glass bottles and jars only; the Knappa/Svensen Mobile Depot at 92435 Svensen Market Rd (the Clatsop County Public Works yard) and the Westport Mobile Depot take commingled recycling and glass on Saturdays; the Cannon Beach Depot east of 2nd St takes commingled recycling, yard debris and glass for city residents; the Gearhart Depot at 698 Pacific Way takes glass and yard debris for residents; and the Hammond point at the Warrenton Community Library, 861 Pacific Dr, and the Warrenton point at the north end of the Public Works maintenance yard take glass only. A Seaside or Warrenton resident with a mattress therefore has to reach Astoria. Source Not confirmed: The directory publishes no fees for any of these depots and gives hours for only some of them.
• Recology Western Oregon, one of the two haulers franchised by Clatsop County, offers a curbside bulky item collection and names mattresses on it. The accepted-items list is "Appliances", "Electronics", "Mattresses", "Furniture", "Washing Machine/Dryer", "Metal Items, including scrap metal" and "Textiles". The page says residents may "schedule a curbside Bulky Item Pickup for a service fee" or take items to the Astoria Transfer Station, and links a booking form; it does not print the fee. It also publishes a self-haul allowance that does not exclude mattresses: "Astoria residents within city limits with current garbage service are entitled to 2 free trips to the Astoria Transfer Station per calendar year", up to 800 lbs at no cost, on production of "a current Recology bill and matching identification for verification". Source Not confirmed: Recology does not publish the bulky item pickup fee anywhere on the Clatsop pages; "a service fee" is all that is stated. Not confirmed: The page does not say how many items one pickup covers, how much notice is needed, or whether the collection is open to unincorporated customers as well as city ones.