How to get rid of a mattress in College Place, 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.

• College Place does not collect for itself. The city's public works page states plainly: "Garbage collection service within the City of College Place is provided by Basin Disposal Inc (BDI)", with BDI's number (509) 547-2476 and a residential route map. The page publishes no rates, no bulky-item information and no clean-up event of its own. Source Not confirmed: The city publishes no solid waste rate schedule of its own and no per-item or bulky charge; CPMC 8.12.140(A) leaves all charges to the contract between the city and the contractor.
• College Place's code sets an unusually precise set-out window and keeps the contractor exclusive. CPMC 8.12.140(B): "All garbage cans shall be accessible to the collector of solid waste, and within ten feet from the stopping point of the truck on the street or alley, as the case may be. The garbage can be placed at the stopping point only during the 24-hour period which starts at 7:00 p.m. the day prior to collection and ends at 6:59 p.m. on the day of collection. All garbage cans shall be kept to the rear of the front yard setback line of any lot, parcel, or tract of land in any residential zoning district of the city." 8.12.020 makes collection "compulsory and universal" and says "Only the city, its solid waste contractor, if any, or persons as provided herein may engage in the business of managing, collection, transportation, or disposal of solid waste"; 8.12.110 lets the council grant one collector an exclusive contract "every 15 years, or more frequently if required". A resident may still haul their own: 8.12.060(D) says the chapter "shall not prohibit the actual producers of solid waste ... from collecting, conveying, and disposing at the Walla Walla Sanitary Landfill". 8.12.060(A) makes it unlawful "to burn, dump, collect, remove or in any other manner dispose of solid waste upon any street, alley, public place or private property within the city otherwise than as hereinafter provided", and 8.12.160 makes any violation a civil infraction "subject to a civil penalty as set forth in this Code, plus court costs and statutory assessments". Source Not confirmed: Chapter 8.12 contains no bulky-item, large-item or per-item provision, and 8.12.160 points to a civil penalty set elsewhere in the code without naming the amount.

• 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