How to get rid of a mattress in Airway Heights, 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.

• Airway Heights runs no collection of its own but does compel it: "The City requires mandatory garbage service and contracts with Waste Management for this service", with WM reachable at (877) 466-4668 or at wmnorthwest.com/airwayheights. On organics the city has opted out of the regional program — "Airway Heights will not be accepting food scraps. However, there is a community drop-off program for clean green yard debris" — and refers residents to Spokane Regional Solid Waste System at (509) 625-6580. The city's Public Works pages carry no rate schedule, no bulky item program and no mattress rule. Source Not confirmed: The city publishes nothing about large or bulky items and never names a mattress Not confirmed: Airway Heights' own municipal code chapter 8.04 is on Code Publishing, which refused automated access, so the city's set-out, compulsory-service and illegal-dumping wording could not be quoted from the code itself
• WM's published Airway Heights curbside rates, effective January 1, 2026, price garbage carts from $10.50 a month for 20 gallons to $42.10 for 96 gallons, extra garbage at $6.77 for one bag or 32-gallon can, every-other-week recycling at $9.77, and a 96-gallon food and yard waste cart at $14.50 with a $30.60 contamination charge. There is no bulky item section and no charge for an appliance, sofa, furniture item or mattress anywhere on the page — in contrast to WM's Spokane Valley page, which does publish "Mattresses/Box springs $29.57" under a bulky heading. Source Not confirmed: No price is published for collecting a mattress in Airway Heights, by the city or by its contracted hauler

• 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