How to get rid of a mattress in Grants Pass, 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.

• Grants Pass collects nothing itself and bills nothing for garbage: the city's own utility billing covers water, wastewater and stormwater only. What the city does instead is set the price. The City of Grants Pass is the managing agency of the Josephine County/City of Grants Pass Solid Waste Agency under a contract running to June 30, 2028, and the agency's own page states its purpose is "the mutual sharing of responsibilities to provide Solid Waste Management to Josephine County, oversee franchise agreements on behalf of all three jurisdictions, rate setting and rate changes, and the collection and allocation of the environmental program fee." The board is seven members - three from Grants Pass, three from Josephine County, one from Cave Junction. So a Grants Pass curbside price is fixed by a body the city half-controls, and sitting at 101 NW A Street. Source Not confirmed: The agency sets the rates but publishes no rate schedule. The only documents on the agency's page are a FY2025 financial report, a 2027 budget message and an FY27 draft budget; no adopted rate resolution, no franchise rate exhibit and no per-item schedule appears on the city's site, in the agency's agenda center or on Josephine County's solid waste page. The price of having a mattress collected at a Grants Pass curb is therefore not established from any public instrument.
• Southern Oregon Sanitation runs a grapple-truck large-item collection and names mattresses in it outright, listing "Furniture (couches, mattresses, tables, chairs)" among the things the truck will take, alongside appliances. The excluded list is hazardous materials, batteries, electronics, tires, treated wood and asbestos; fridges must be emptied first. Booking is by phone at (541) 479-5335 or an online form, and the item must be curbside with at least 20 ft of horizontal and 35 ft of vertical clearance, clear of trees, fences, vehicles and wires - a real constraint on a narrow Grants Pass street with overhead lines. Source Not confirmed: No price at all: the grapple-truck page publishes no per-item rate, no minimum and no trip charge, so what a mattress costs to have collected is unestablished. An unpublished fee is not a free one. Not confirmed: The service area is given only as "select areas within Josephine and Jackson Counties" and the page does not name Grants Pass or any other city, so whether a given Grants Pass address can book this truck is not established from the operator's own page.
• Grants Pass writes the rule that catches a mattress left in a front yard, not just one tipped in a creek. GPMC 5.12.070 Scattering Rubbish: "No person may throw, dump, or deposit upon public or private property, and no person may keep or maintain on public or private property, any injurious or offensive substance or any kind of rubbish, (including but not limited to garbage, trash, waste, refuse, and junk), appliances, motor vehicles or parts thereof, building materials, machinery, or any other substance which would mar the appearance, create a stench, or detract from the cleanliness or safety of such property." The "keep or maintain" clause is what makes storing it on your own property an offense. Separately, GPMC 5.57.050 covers dumping refuse or debris in city parks or public spaces and 5.57.060 covers offensive littering on public property. Source
• Grants Pass attaches a number to that rule, which almost no city does. GPMC 1.36.010(C) sets a maximum fine of $720 for a violation, and 1.36.010(J) sets the base fine written on the citation for 5.57.050 (dumping refuse or debris in parks or public spaces), 5.57.060 (offensive littering) "or any other violation of the provisions of the Municipal Code" at $295, including state and county assessments. On a guilty plea to a first offense court staff may reduce it to $180, and to $225 on a second. Under 1.36.010(I) the base fine and any reduction are increased by $200 if the citing officer notes you were warned in writing at least two days earlier, and by $400 if you were convicted of the same offense within the previous twelve months. Each day is a separate offense. Source
• The city's own recycling page has no local mattress answer and says so by what it offers instead: its "Mattress Disposal Suggestions" link goes to a national consumer-advice article on consumeraffairs.com, and for anything non-recyclable it points to two transfer stations - the Josephine County Recycle and Transfer Station at 1749 Merlin Road in Grants Pass and the Southern Oregon Sanitation station at 905 Kerby Mainline Road in Kerby. Its household hazardous waste collection events run twice a year and are for toxic and hazardous waste, not furniture. Source Not confirmed: The city's linked reuse list ("Organizations which provide reuse opportunities", supplied courtesy of Republic Services) names 20 organizations, 14 of them under "appliances, books, clothing, furniture, household goods", but gives no street address, no hours, no terms and no mattress policy for any of them. Nothing on it meets the standard for a place to send someone, and whether any Grants Pass thrift shop takes a mattress is unestablished.

• 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