How to get rid of a mattress in Coos Bay, 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.

• Which hauler a Coos Bay household calls depends on which half of the city it lives in, and the code is where that is written. CBMC 8.02.040 grants Waste Connections of Oregon dba Les' Sanitary Services, Inc. "the exclusive franchise, right, and privilege to provide solid waste disposal service" within "Area I" of the city, and grants Coos Bay Sanitary Service the same exclusive right within "Area II", each extending automatically to adjacent land annexed later. Rates are the city's to set: CBMC 8.02.100.1 provides that "rates for solid waste disposal service provided by each franchisee shall be set by resolution of the city council", after a hearing advertised in a newspaper of general circulation between 10 and 30 days beforehand at which any resident may appear. CBMC 8.02.050.4 exempts "transportation by a person of solid waste ... generated or produced on his or her own premises to a disposal site", so self-hauling your own mattress is expressly lawful. Source Not confirmed: The Area I / Area II boundary is in "Exhibit A" attached to the ordinance and is not reproduced in the codified chapter or published on the city's site, so which franchisee serves a given Coos Bay address cannot be established from the code alone. Not confirmed: The rate schedule the council adopts by resolution is not published on the city's website. No adopted exhibit with a bulky, special pick-up or per-item line for either franchisee could be found, so no city-set price for collecting a mattress in Coos Bay is established.
• Not an option: Coos Bay's annual free drop-off exists and it will not take a mattress. City Clean Up Day - the fourteenth was Saturday, April 19, 2025, 10am to 3pm - lets "Residents of Coos Bay and North Bend ... donate at least 4 items of food or $4 for the South Coast Food Share and then drop off up to 4 cans (35 gallon size) of household garbage. Recyclables are welcome, but no tires, appliances, furniture, metal, or hazardous materials will be accepted. Garbage drop-off is limited to residents of Coos Bay and North Bend." Furniture is excluded by name and the event is residency-restricted, so a mattress is out twice over. The four drop-off points are the S. Fourth Street parking lot between Anderson and Curtis, the Eastside Fire Station at 365 D Street, the Empire parking lot at S. Wall and Newmark, and Pony Village Mall in North Bend. The event is run with Oregon Bay Area Beautification, South Coast Food Share, Les' Sanitary Service, Coos Bay Sanitary and the two cities. Source
• Not an option: The city's other free collection is brush only, and the code fixes it that way. CBMC 8.02.080.7 requires each franchisee to "provide, at no cost, pick-up for the city's brush pick-up program" at least twice a year, spring and autumn, subject to a five-yard maximum per residence, cuttings of no more than five feet, and the express instruction that "brush shall not include grass clippings or other similar material". The Spring 2026 round, run by Les' Sanitary on Monday, May 4, 2026, adds the operating rules: the pile must be out before the first day, each street gets one single pass, a maximum of two level standard pickup-truck loads, one pile per residential address, no commercial and no group piles, nothing overhead or near hydrants, and "No grass clippings, sod, dirt, loose leaves, plastic bags, baling twine or other materials that are not appropriate for grinding." Anything over the limit is hauled "for a trip fee + $19.00 per cubic yard". Nothing here reaches a mattress. Source
• Les' Sanitary Service does run one-time bulky collections and publishes nothing about what they cost. Its own page says: "For those occasional times when you have bulky items, call us and we can schedule a one-time pick-up. Trip charge and fees apply." Booking is at (541) 267-2848, weekdays 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM with published break periods. On extras it is more specific: additional bags may be "placed on the ground next to cart with 3ft clearance" and are billed at month's end. Source Not confirmed: Mattresses are not named among the bulky items accepted, and no trip charge, per-item rate or minimum is published, so neither the price nor the availability of a bulky mattress pick-up in Coos Bay is established.
• Coos Bay's dumping rule carries one of the steepest published escalations in Oregon. CBMC 8.10.050 Unauthorized dumping: "No person shall deposit, on public or private property, rubbish, trash, debris, refuse, junk or any substance that would mar the appearance, create a stench or fire hazard, detract from the cleanliness or safety of the property or would be likely to injure a person, animal or vehicle traveling on a public way." CBMC 8.10.190.2 prices it: "a fine upon conviction of not less than $250.00 for the first offense. The penalty shall be $500.00 for the second separate violation and $1,000 for the third and subsequent separate violations of the same provision within any five-year period. Total civil penalty shall not exceed $5,000", with each day a separate violation and a minimum cumulative civil penalty of $250.00 per day stated on the citation. CBMC 8.10.090 adds the self-hauler's rule: no vehicle may be driven unless loaded so as to prevent its contents dropping or escaping, and anything that does escape must be removed from the street within three hours. Source
• Not an option: There is no Bye Bye Mattress collection site in Coos Bay or anywhere in Coos County. The program's locator, searched on Coos Bay, returns as its nearest result St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County's Florence Thrift Store at 2315 HWY 101, Florence, 43 miles up the coast - free drop-off for residents and businesses, "10-unit max for residents and 25-unit max for businesses", 10:00AM to 6:00PM seven days. After that the next nearest is Cottage Grove at 66 miles and the Eugene stores at 71 and beyond. Oregon pays for free mattress recycling statewide; on the south coast at Coos Bay there is no participating site to use it at. Source
• The city's recycling page names both franchisees - "Les' Sanitary Service and Coos Bay Sanitary provide solid waste collection (i.e. trash pick-up) and recycling services in Coos Bay" - and points to one in-town drop-off: "drop-off recycling is accepted at the waste transfer station at 1260 S 1st St. for a small fee." What follows is a list of accepted recyclables - plastic jugs, tubs and bottles, paper, cardboard, metal cans, glass bottles and jars, electronics - with no furniture or mattress line. Source Not confirmed: The city gives the drop-off as 1260 S 1st St while Les' Sanitary's own public disposal page gives its depot as 1210 S. Broadway, Coos Bay, open Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM; the two addresses are not reconciled by either page. Neither publishes a fee schedule, a mattress or furniture rate, or a minimum charge, so this site is not established as a mattress drop-off at any price.

• 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