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

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.

• Curry Transfer & Recycling, the Brookings franchisee, publishes its own Cart Service Guidelines (17498 Carpenterville Rd, Brookings, PO Box 4008, OR 97415, updated 4/2022) and they say a bulky item is a separate, quoted job: "Contact our office to schedule a special pick-up for bulky items such as furniture, appliances, and tires. Dumpsters for short-term periods are also available. Rates for these items differ from your normal garbage rate." No rate is given. The same sheet closes off the cheap route: "Overloaded carts will be charged an extra bag charge" and "Overweight carts may not be serviced", with an unstated extra fee for "Non-pick-up day service" and a "small administrative fee" for new, resumed and cancelled service. Restricted items that must not go in a cart or dumpster are listed as "medical waste, car batteries, motor oil, propane tanks, oil-based paint, asbestos, and e-waste (computer monitors, CPU, laptops, and televisions)" - mattresses are not on that restricted list, but neither are they named among the bulky examples. Office hours are 8 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday, 541-469-2425. Source Not confirmed: Curry Transfer & Recycling publishes no price for a bulky special pick-up and does not name mattresses among the items it will take on one, so the cost and even the availability of curbside mattress collection in Brookings is unestablished. An unpublished fee is not a free one.
• Brookings, like other Oregon cities, sets its hauler's rates - the city's own council agenda report of June 12, 2017 records the arrangement plainly: "CTR has an exclusive franchise with the City to provide refuse collection, disposal and recycling collection. The term of the franchise is year-to-year; the ordinance provides a 10-year termination provision", and "The ordinance establishing a franchise agreement with Curry Transfer and Recycling (CTR) provides that CTR may request a rate adjustment annually based upon cost of living and related factors." The report also names CTR among the city's franchise holders alongside Charter, Frontier, Mettel, LS Networks, Ringcentral and Coos Curry Electric Cooperative, and notes the franchise fee at that date was "one-half of one percent of their basic solid waste collection service ... the lowest rate in the State", which the council was asked to raise to 5.0 percent. So the rate a Brookings household pays CTR is a council-approved rate, not a rate CTR sets alone. Source Not confirmed: The rate schedule attachments referred to in this report ("Rate schedule with rate increase and franchise fee effective July 1, 2017") were not part of the published file, and no current City of Brookings solid waste rate schedule was located, so no Brookings collection price is established.
• Brookings writes furniture into its dumping ordinance and attaches a minimum fine. BMC 8.20.010(C) defines solid waste to include, expressly, "discarded home or industrial appliances, equipment or furniture" alongside garbage, trash, refuse, trash and vehicle parts or tires - so a mattress is solid waste by name for enforcement purposes. BMC 8.20.020 then prohibits depositing solid waste "in or near any solid waste receptacle owned or rented by another person, without first obtaining the permission of that person", depositing solid waste "produced on any publicly owned property, including but not limited to parks and recreation areas", and using "any publicly owned solid waste receptacle as a means to dispose of residential, commercial, or industrial solid waste". BMC 8.20.030 Scattering Rubbish covers public and private property alike. The penalty, BMC 8.20.040, is the part worth knowing: "Any violation of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished pursuant to Chapter 1.05 BMC, General Penalty, except that the fine shall not be less than $100.00 for the first offense." A floor, not a ceiling, on the first offense. (Ord. 14-O-735; Ord. 20-O-793.) Source
• The City of Brookings' own recycling page confirms who collects and who to ask, and offers nothing of its own. "Recycling and garbage collection is managed by Curry Transfer and Recycling (CTR)", with curbside recycling "picked up every other week", a recycling tub issued to residents who sign up for trash service, and recyclables also accepted "at CTR's Brookings yard and all Transfer sites". The page gives CTR's contact as Tiffany Rogde, 541-469-2425, and the city's own staff contact as Tony Baron, 541-469-1172, and links the acceptable-recyclables lists as city documents. There is no city bulky-item collection, no city clean-up day and no city drop-off mentioned; residents are pointed to the Curry County Solid Waste Advisory Committee for policy. Mattresses appear nowhere on the page. Source Not confirmed: The city page does not state a mattress policy and does not mention the Bye Bye Mattress collection site operating inside its own city limits.

• SVdP shared policy allows fewer than ten mattresses at listed stores, but MRC locator gives Cottage Grove a five-unit maximum, sends Seneca loads over five to Prairie Road, and lists Florence/Albany/Salem limits of ten residential or 25 business units. Facility-specific quantity applicability conflicts with the shared page. Source
• County describes public self-haul recycling/garbage access but still says it operates 15 transfer stations. Current directory identifies Walton as permanently closed. Division office is 3100 E. 17th Avenue, Eugene OR 97403; office hours are not receiving hours. Source
• Linked fee-breakdown page describes July 3, 2025 increases and lists mattress/box-spring rate-code amounts (MattBxsp TN $293.12, EA $17.44; MatBxspTN Recy $293.12). Applicability to current household recycling or garbage is not explained; August 2026 consumer page says Glenwood recycling free. Source
• Existing MRC Glenwood lead 1df981cc23e151b2d03067db matches county facility by name/location: 3100 East 17th Avenue, Eugene. MRC records Multnomah and older 8–6 hours; county has Lane and dated 7:30–5:30 weekday hours. Source
• Current table simultaneously lists a minimum charge and free mattress/box-spring intake up to five daily. Generic facility recycling description does not establish every mattress is recycled. Source
• Oregon Mattress Stewardship Program under SB 1576 (2022), implemented by Mattress Recycling Council from Jan 1, 2025. $22.50 stewardship assessment per mattress or boxspring collected at point of sale; collected units processed for renovation, reuse or recycling. Source
• Retailers must collect the assessment at point of sale as a separate receipt line item, buy only from registered producers/renovators, and give consumers collection-opportunity information; only registered entities may sell mattresses in Oregon. No retailer take-back mandate stated. Source
• Bye Bye Mattress Oregon: mattresses and box springs in any condition, no matter when purchased, can be dropped off free at participating collection sites or events; statewide locator at byebyemattress.com/find-a-facility/. Businesses with 100+ units qualify for no-cost transport and recycling. Helpline 1-855-494-8400. Source