How to get rid of a mattress in Ephrata, 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.

• Ephrata Municipal Code Chapter 6.08 sets one of the tightest set-out windows in this batch. EMC 6.08.070: residential carts "shall be placed at the curb in the location designated by the public works department with the arrows on the cart pointing toward the street no later than 7:00 am on the day of collection. Carts may be placed in residential districts the evening prior to collection but not before 5:00 pm. All carts shall be removed from the curb placement, after collection of garbage, not later than 7:00 pm the evening following collection." Placement is by alley where there is one: "Where alley access is available, all carts or bulk storage containers shall be placed at the alley line. Where no alley access is available, all carts or bulk storage containers shall be placed at the curb line on the date designated for collection and on all other days shall be removed from street view." Nothing may be left loose: "No garbage or refuse will be permitted to be left in any street or alley of the city, except in a suitable cart or container therefor." EMC 6.08.080 declares that "Debris, vegetation, limbs, lawn clippings, lumber piles, wood piles, auto parts or bodies, garbage and the like, and storage of any materials in the alleys of the city of Ephrata, except in approved garbage or refuse carts or containers, do constitute and are hereby declared to be a public nuisance"; if it is not removed "within twenty-four (24) hours after written notice," the city's sanitation department may remove it and "The person, firm or corporation creating the nuisance ... shall be chargeable with the expense which may be incurred in the removal thereof," collectable by suit "in addition to a fine and/or penalty provided for in this chapter." EMC 6.08.050(l) applies the same 24-hour notice-and-abate rule to garbage left on any street or alley. Source Not confirmed: the chapter names no mattress and creates no bulky item right; the penalties are expressed as lettered penalty classes (C-1 to C-20) defined in EMC Chapter 1.04, whose dollar amounts were 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