How to get rid of a mattress in Brier, 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.

• Brier neither collects nor contracts: its ordinance only licenses whoever holds the state certificate. BMC 8.16.010 provides that "No person, association, or corporation shall engage in the business of hauling, transporting, or gathering garbage, cans or discarded bottles within the city of Brier without obtaining a license stated in this chapter, and complying with all city, Snohomish County, and state requirements." BMC 8.16.050 requires that "The licensee shall have the proper certificate of public need and necessity authorizing the hauling of garbage and refuse for hire in the city or portion thereof," and 8.16.040 that the licensee "have all proper state and local certifications prior to engaging in any handling or transporting operations." The license fee is "three dollars for each resident or business establishment being served as of January 1st of the same year; provided, that such license fee shall be at least five hundred dollars", applied for annually by February 15 (8.16.020). Trucks "shall be adequate to contain all garbage, refuse, etc., during such hauling" (8.16.060), and under 8.16.070 a violation "shall constitute a misdemeanor and may be punished in accordance with the provisions of BMC 1.28.030(A)." Source Not confirmed: Chapter 8.16 contains no mandatory-subscription clause, no rate schedule, no set-out rule and no bulky-item or oversized-item provision, and the city of Brier publishes no garbage page of its own, so Brier has no city bulky program and no city-set price for a mattress. Which licensed company actually serves Brier is not established from a city source.
• Brier's dumping rule is its litter code, and it reaches a mattress left at the curb. BMC 8.20.030 provides that "No person shall throw, drop, deposit, discard or otherwise dispose of litter upon any street, alley, sidewalk or any other public place in the city or upon a private residence or other private property not owned by him, or in any waters within the jurisdiction of the city whether from a vehicle or otherwise," except on property designated for disposal, into a litter receptacle, or with the owner's or tenant's consent. "Litter" is defined in 8.20.020 as "all solid wastes, including but not limited to containers, packages, wrapping, printed matter garbage, refuse, rubbish, animal excrement, and in addition, all other waste material which, if thrown or deposited as prohibited in this chapter, tends to create a public nuisance", and "rubbish" as "nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes such as paper, wrapping, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, wood, glass, plastic, cloth, bedding, crockery and similar materials." BMC 8.20.050 adds that street litter receptacles "shall be used only for such litter material as persons may have for disposal while passing along the street ... and in no event shall be used for the disposal of other solid waste accumulated in residences or places of business." The penalty, at 8.20.240, is that violations "shall constitute a nontraffic civil infraction as provided for in BMC 1.28.030 and shall be punished in accordance with the current general fine and penalty provisions for a Class A civil infraction. Failure to respond to a civil infraction or a second and subsequent violation for the same offense shall be issued a Class B civil infraction. Failure to respond to any infraction, third or subsequent violation shall constitute a misdemeanor." Enforcement is by "any police officer, code enforcement officer, fire department and building department personnel, jurisdictional health department personnel" (8.20.220). Source Not confirmed: The ordinance sets the class of infraction but not the dollar amount, which sits in BMC 1.28.030's general fine schedule and was not read.

• 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