How to get rid of a mattress in Cheney, 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.

• Cheney's one free drop-off day of the year excludes furniture outright. The annual Clean Sweep, held Saturday, April 12, 2025 from 8.30 a.m. to noon, offers a free Dumpster Drop-Off from 8 a.m. to noon at the Utility Building, 112 Anderson Rd, for "household garbage, building materials and metals" — but the notice adds in the same line "(NO appliances or furniture accepted - Use the Large Item Pickup Service for these items)". The drop site "is limited to Cheney utility customers; you must bring proof that you are a Cheney utility customer". The same day offers free household hazardous waste disposal at the Recycling Center, 100 Anderson Rd, free unmounted passenger tire disposal at Les Schwab (limit four), a free shred event and a prescription drug take-back. Source Not confirmed: The notice does not say whether a mattress counts as "furniture" for the exclusion, so a resident cannot tell from the page whether the free dumpster would take one
• Cheney's set-out window and penalties are in the code. CMC 8.12.310 runs two shifts: on the regular day schedule "Containers shall be ready for pickup by 6:00 a.m.", collection occurs after 6 a.m., and containers must be returned to their regular storage area away from the curb, sidewalk or pickup area "no later than 9:00 p.m. in the evening of the collection day"; on the early day schedule, "primarily for residential automated cart customers around Eastern Washington University Campus collection area", collection occurs any time after 5 a.m. and containers must be ready by 5 a.m. CMC 8.12.328, "Bulky loading prohibited", requires contents to fall freely from the container, allows additional labor and equipment charges or refusal for an overfilled container, and provides that "The department may decline to collect on regular routes appliances, furniture, tree stumps and other oversized wastes" — which is why a bulky item needs the special pickup. CMC 8.12.208(e) sets the penalties: for a single-family residence a Class 4 infraction for up to the first five days of noncompliance and a Class 2 infraction thereafter, each day of a continuing violation a new violation, and the penalties are "in addition to actual costs of clean-up or other services provided by the city". CMC 8.12.222 prohibits burning, burying and on-site private disposal apart from composting, and 8.12.224 allows abatement of an accumulation of solid waste as a public nuisance. Source Not confirmed: The code sets no separate wrapping or bagging requirement for a mattress

• 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