How to get rid of a mattress in Anacortes, 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.

• Anacortes' own FAQ gives residents two routes for a large item and refuses to write down the terms of either: on appliances, "You can call the City of Anacortes Solid Waste Department to schedule a pick-up, or take it to the Skagit County Transfer Station", and on everything else, "Please call the Solid Waste Department at (360) 293-1921 for information on Special Hauls, Appliance Removal, and Free Cleanup days." The city therefore has a free cleanup program of some kind, but publishes neither its dates, nor who qualifies, nor what it accepts. Source Not confirmed: The Free Cleanup days have no published dates, eligibility or accepted-items list, and the FAQ does not say whether a mattress is accepted on them; the only route to those facts is a phone call, which was not made
• WM's Anacortes page is not the answer for garbage here, and says so: it prices recycling ($15.11 a month for one 96-gallon cart emptied weekly) and organics ($18.46 a month, restaurant organics cart $26.09, extra yard waste $8.40 per unit) effective January 1, 2026, and directs garbage inquiries to the City of Anacortes. There is no bulky item section and no mattress charge on it. The split matters: in neighboring Burlington, where WM holds the garbage contract, WM's page does publish a bulky item block with a mattress price. 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