How to get rid of a mattress in Battle Ground, 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.

• Battle Ground has no garbage collection chapter in its municipal code — collection is a Clark County subscription arrangement and the city's only codified interest is a garbage collection tax at BGMC 3.36. What the city does regulate is a mattress left outside. BGMC 8.04.040(D) lists as prohibited public nuisances, under "Accumulations of Materials, Garbage, Recyclables, Furniture, Machinery": "Garbage or recyclables not properly stored in a receptacle with a tight-fitting lid", "Any accumulation of broken or neglected items, litter, salvage materials, or junk not in an approved enclosed structure", and, specifically, "Any broken or discarded household furniture, furnishings, equipment, or appliance not in an approved enclosed structure". The prohibition runs to "any public rights-of-way abutting a person's, firm's, or entity's property" as well as the property itself. BGMC 8.04.030 lets the city "in response to field observations, determine that violations of this chapter have occurred or are occurring, and ... utilize any of the compliance provisions set forth in Chapter 20.100 BGMC" (Ord. 21-31, 2021). Source Not confirmed: Chapter 8.04 states no fine amount; the penalties sit in Chapter 20.100 BGMC, which was not read. Not confirmed: The code gives no set-out time and no bulky-item rule.
• The city's own Garbage, Materials, Outdoor Storage page tells residents that code enforcement handles "accumulations of materials, garbage, recyclables, furniture, and machinery", and that outside storage "may be considered a public nuisance if it poses health, safety, or visual concerns, and is subject to enforcement, per Battle Ground Municipal Code BGMC 8.04.040". Complaints go to the non-emergency line 360-342-5200 or the city's online portal. Source Not confirmed: The page gives no collection information at all: no hauler, no rates, no bulky-item route.

• 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