How to get rid of a mattress in Edmonds, 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.

• Edmonds runs no collection of its own and, unusually for an incorporated Washington city, does not set the rates either. Its Public Works page states: "The City of Edmonds does not provide waste hauling services. Curbside garbage and recycling service is provided under franchise agreements with private industry solid waste carriers regulated by the Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC)." Three companies split the city by area: "Sound Disposal provides service in the greater 'bowl' area of downtown Edmonds. For service please call (425) 778-2404"; "Republic Services provides service to almost all of the remainder of the city. For service please call (425) 778-0188"; and "Waste Management NW provides service to about 120 homes in an area to the northwest and the south side of Lake Ballinger. For service please call (800) 592-9995." The page links a map for each company's collection area and directs complaints to the WUTC. Under "County Solid Waste Facilities" it points residents to the Snohomish County transfer stations. Source Not confirmed: No bulky-item, large-item or mattress price appears anywhere on the city's pages, and because the carriers are UTC-regulated rather than under a city rate schedule, Edmonds publishes no adopted bulky rate to quote.
• Edmonds' own "What Do I Do With…? Curbside Garbage" page describes the service levels available in the city — "single-family residents receive weekly garbage collection", containers "range from the smallest, a 20-gallon mini-can, to one or more of standard 32-gallon containers or company-supplied 64-gallon and 96-gallon wheeled carts", with "a once-a-month garbage service available using one 32-gallon size container" and billing "every three months". Neither this page nor the city's "What Do I Do With…?" index names mattresses, bulky items or oversized furniture anywhere among its categories, which are curbside recycling, yard waste and food scraps, curbside garbage, electronics, medicine return, household hazardous waste and StyroCycle Saturdays. Source Not confirmed: Edmonds' "What Do I Do With…?" index — the page whose whole purpose is to say where an unwanted item goes — has no entry for a mattress, a bulky item or furniture.
• Sound Disposal, the locally owned company that serves the downtown Edmonds "bowl", is described on the city's own page as "A solid waste, recycle, yard waste & food waste collection company serving residential & commercial customers in Downtown Edmonds. Locally owned and operated since 1977", contact "425-778-2404". Source
• Sound Disposal's own residential trash page publishes only the frequency and container sizes for downtown Edmonds — "Collection frequency - once per week (day of the week is determined by location)", container sizes "20 Gallon Mini Can, 32 Gallon, 64 Gallon, 96 Gallon", with the note "*Note* Sound Disposal does not provide 20gal or 32gal containers". The site's only published rate information is for dumpster rental, and no bulky-item, large-item or mattress charge appears anywhere on it. Source Not confirmed: Sound Disposal publishes no bulky-item or mattress rate and no stated mattress policy; the site invites a dumpster-rental quote instead, which is not a published price.

• 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