How to get rid of a mattress in Aberdeen, WA.

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.

• There is one figure on the record, and it is the figure Aberdeen deleted. The ordinance packet that became Ordinance 6662 (adopted August 12, 2020) prints the code as it then stood before striking the tables, and the struck text reads: "D. Special Service Charges. The following special service charges are in addition to the monthly curb service rates… 2. Special Item Removal. For each of the following types of items picked up on a one-time basis the charge will be: a. Small appliances, furniture, bulky items, etc.: $27.02 each b. Large appliances, refrigerators, freezers, etc.: $62.79 each", alongside "3. Prepaid plastic thirty (30) gallon bags furnished by the city: $4.48 each" and "4. Special Collection Calls. Collection calls requested by a customer for a regular packer truck requiring loading of loose material, including travel time, will be charged at an hourly rate of sixty-five dollars and fifty-nine cents ($65.59) plus disposal fee." The same packet explains why the tables went: "the rates for solid waste collection and recycling under AMC 13.08 must be adjusted in compliance with the contract between the City of Aberdeen and Harold LeMay Enterprises, Inc.", the contract "provides that the rates may be increased at a rate related to the consumer price index and any increases in the Grays Harbor County disposal costs", and "the City no longer acts as the fee collection agent under the Solid Waste Contract". The replacement language is the list of categories now in 13.08.110(C). $27.02 is therefore the last special-item price Aberdeen ever adopted in its own code, it was superseded on August 12, 2020, and it has been subject to six years of contractual CPI and county-disposal escalation since. It is history, not a quote. Source Not confirmed: The $27.02 and $62.79 special item removal charges were removed from the code by Ordinance 6662 on August 12, 2020 and no replacement figure has been published, so the current charge for taking a mattress in Aberdeen is not established Not confirmed: The struck code did not say whether a mattress falls under "Small appliances, furniture, bulky items, etc." or is charged some other way
• The City's only published rate document confirms the gap rather than closing it. The "2026 Utility Rate Information" sheet covers water, sewer, stormwater and the EMS charge and nothing else — "A new rate structure for water, sewer, and stormwater utility services was adopted by the Aberdeen City Council in November 2019 and set through Aberdeen Municipal Code… (Aberdeen Municipal Code 13.60, 13.64, 13.70, 13.80)" — with a "2026 Base Service Charge Starting April 1, 2026" table listing Water $41.54, Sewer $77.12, Stormwater $14.13 and EMS Charge $67.54 for a single family or duplex, a 20 percent discount for eligible low-income seniors, and a "Minimum Monthly Charge" of $214.28. Garbage does not appear on the sheet in any form. An Aberdeen reader looking for a bulky-item price on the City's website will not find one, because the City neither bills nor publishes garbage rates. Source
• Not an option: The one charity shop within easy reach of Aberdeen that takes furniture has said no to a bed in writing. Habitat for Humanity of Grays Harbor, whose store is at "3005 Simpson Ave., Hoquiam, WA 98550", publishes a page headed "Items we do not accept (May change as situations dictate)" and the list includes, verbatim, "MATTRESS/BOX-SPRINGS". The same list rules out "HIDE-A-BEDS", "BEDDING/LINENS", "FURNITURE WITH RIPS/TEARS/STAINS/BROKEN", "INFANT: I.E CRIBS/STROLLERS ETC.", "ENTERTAINMENT CENTERS" and "WATER HEATERS". The affiliate's companion "Items we accept" page takes furniture only where it "must be complete and functional with no rips, tears, or stains", and names no bedding of any kind. A wasted drive from Aberdeen to Hoquiam is the thing this saves. Source

• County warehouse referral has Everett locality and 425-931-3670; primary operator now directs drop-off to Mukilteo and uses 425-876-0107. County directory appears stale for this referral. Source
• No enacted Washington mattress stewardship law found. SB 6271 (2026; companion HB 2633) would create mattress producer responsibility organizations; referred to Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Jan 21, 2026, public hearing Feb 4, 2026, no later action shown. Source
• Ecology's 1-800-RECYCLE locator (1800recycle.wa.gov) lists 'Home & Garden - Mattresses' as a searchable material; hotline 1-800-732-9253, Mon-Fri 9am-3pm. Ecology's How to Recycle page also directs residents to county or city solid waste officials. Source
• There is no mattress recycling program in Washington State, and the absence is worth stating because both neighbors have one. The Mattress Recycling Council, which runs the Bye Bye Mattress collection network, says of itself: "We currently provide resources, education and support for programs in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island." Washington is not among them. A Washington resident has no free state-funded drop-off of the kind an Oregonian twenty miles away in Milton-Freewater or Hermiston has, and no Bye Bye Mattress collection site to look up. What the county charges at the gate is what the resident actually pays. Source