How to get rid of a mattress in Camas, 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.

• Camas collects its own garbage. "The City of Camas provides scheduled curbside refuse collection services for residential households, public schools, public buildings and business in Camas", weekly or every other week depending on the subscription, with commercial collection five days a week; "all Recycling and Yard Debris collection within the City of Camas is collected and managed by Waste Connections of Washington, Inc.", with garbage and recycling billed by the city and yard debris billed by Waste Connections. The set-out rule carries a penalty: "Please make sure to put your can out by 6:30 a.m. on your scheduled pick up day, otherwise a return pick-up fee may be assessed." Source Not confirmed: The page does not say what the return pick-up fee is; that figure is on the city's utility rates page.
• Not an option: The most important fact about Camas is a refusal. The city's Garbage Service Information page, after describing extra bags and Christmas tree pickup, states: "The City no longer takes any larger kitchen appliances, large household items, such as couches and mattresses, or TV's." A mattress cannot be put out at a Camas curb at any price. The same page notes that extra bags may be set beside the refuse can for a fee, and that 300-gallon (1.5 yard) and 450-gallon (2 yard) containers can be had for temporary clean-ups beyond regular pickup. Source Not confirmed: The page does not say when the city stopped taking mattresses, and does not direct residents anywhere else.
• The exclusion is confirmed independently by the transfer station operator. Columbia Resource Company's Washougal Transfer Station page, in its Camas (city limits) note, says "Garbage and recycling service are mandatory per Camas Municipal Code 13.86.020. Garbage is collected every other week by the City of Camas Sanitation Department. Recycling is collected by Waste Connections on your regular service day every week. Both garbage and recycling are billed through City of Camas. Yard debris is an optional service that is billed through Waste Connections. The City of Camas does not pick up bulky items, appliances or electronic waste from the curb." Source Not confirmed: The operator note and the city page disagree on the standard collection frequency (every other week versus a choice of weekly or every other week).
• Camas Municipal Code Chapter 13.80 explains why a Camas household pays whether or not it uses the service, and sets the rules that a dumped mattress would break. CMC 13.80.020: "The city has a system of universal compulsory refuse or solid waste collection. Every person in possession, charge, or control of any house, dwelling, multiunit residence, apartment house, trailer court or any building put to residential use shall be charged for refuse collection service for each unit ... whether such person uses such service or not. If any person chooses not to actually use such service, he shall be charged for the service of checking to see whether he or she has solid waste to be collected." CMC 13.80.070(A)(2): "Curb service must have refuse cans placed on the street curb by 6:30 a.m. on the day the area is scheduled by the department for refuse to be collected." CMC 13.80.040(A): "It is unlawful for any person to burn, bury, dump, collect, remove or in any other manner dispose of garbage or swill upon, or transport the same over any street, alley, public place or private property within the city otherwise than as provided in this chapter", and 13.80.040(C) and (D) separately make it unlawful to dump trash, debris, tires or appliances on another person's private property or on any street, alley or public place. CMC 13.80.060 sets residential collection at "at least once every other week". Source Not confirmed: Chapter 13.80 states no fine amount for unlawful dumping. Not confirmed: The code chapter contains no bulky-item provision at all, which matches the city's refusal to collect them.
• Camas publishes its garbage rates on the city utility rates page: 35 gallon every other week $15.78, 35 gallon weekly $18.28, 65 gallon weekly $23.22, and, under Other Garbage Charges, "Return trip for missed $8.00", "Overfilling of can $5.00", "Extra Bag $5.00" and "Extra Can (32/35 gallon) $9.00". There is no bulky item, furniture or mattress line, consistent with the city not collecting them. Source Not confirmed: The rate page does not name a date of adoption or an effective date.

• 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