How to get rid of a mattress in Kelso, WA.

If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.

Casper

Free

Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. Source

Purple

Free

Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source

Raymour & Flanigan

Free

New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source

Rooms To Go

Free

New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Kelso and its neighbors.

• Waste Control, Inc. holds Washington UTC permit G-101 and files Tariff No. 20, whose Item 150 — Loose and Bulky Material sets the rates for anything that will not go in a cart on a regular route: Bulky Materials $18.16 per cubic yard for 1 to 4 cubic yards, $18.16 per additional cubic yard, a minimum charge of $18.16 per pick-up, and a carry charge of $7.32 "Per each 5 ft. over 8 feet". Customer-loaded loose material is charged at the same rates; company-loaded loose material is $37.76. Special trips are charged at the time rates in Item 160 instead. The page was issued August 21, 2025 and took effect October 5, 2025. Item 20 defines "Bulky materials" as "Empty carriers, cartons, boxes, crates, etc., or materials offered for disposal, all of which may be readily handled without shoveling." The tariff's company-specific definitions set out the territory: "Cowitz County: That portion of unincorporated Cowlitz County historically serviced under the original G-101 Permit", "Castle Rock: The City of Castle Rock", and "Woodland Area: That portion of unincorporated Clark and Cowlitz Counties previously serviced under the, now cancelled, G-49 Permit", plus a Mt. Saint Helens area described by township and range. Source Not confirmed: The tariff nowhere names a mattress or a box spring, so whether one is accepted as bulky material on a regular route — and whether it counts as one cubic yard or more — is not published. Not confirmed: The Item 150 page leaves its "Service Area" line blank, so the rate is read as applying across the permit's territory rather than being stated for a named area. Not confirmed: The tariff sets rates for unincorporated Cowlitz County, the City of Castle Rock and the Woodland area only. It does not cover Longview, Kelso or the City of Woodland, whose own arrangements are set by contract and are not in this filing.
• The Washington UTC publishes a service map per county naming every company certificated to collect solid waste there. For Cowlitz County it lists two: Waste Control, Inc. (G-101), whose Tariff No. 20 sets the county's filed bulky rate, and Jeffery K. Cummins (G-219), trading as Community Waste & Recycling, which files Tariff No. 4. A resident outside the cities has a certificated hauler for their address, and which one it is depends on the territory map rather than on choice — Washington's certificates are exclusive by area. Source Not confirmed: Community Waste & Recycling's Tariff No. 4 was not read, so its bulky rate in Cowlitz County is not recorded here. Not confirmed: The UTC's maps are territory drawings; which company holds a given address is not readable from the page text alone.
• Cowlitz County's Solid Waste Division index lists everything the division does — SWAC meetings, recycling, household hazardous waste, landfills, the management plan, prescription drugs, reduce/reuse/recycle, small quantity generators, the transfer station and an FAQ. There is no bulky-item, large-item or clean-up collection among them, and the transfer station entry points outward: "For garbage disposal, recycling, materials buyback and more, visit the Waste Control transfer station". The county runs no collection of its own; outside the cities, collection is the certificated hauler's under its UTC tariff. Source Not confirmed: No county-wide free dump day, amnesty event or disposal voucher was found on any Cowlitz County page. The only amnesty the county advertises is for tires, on its Solid Waste Regulation page. Not confirmed: Cowlitz County Code Chapter 15.34 (Dump Fees) has moved to eCode360, which serves a Cloudflare challenge to automated fetches, so the adopted fee ordinance behind the rate sheets was not read.
• Cowlitz County Habitat for Humanity runs the county's one Habitat store, at 1321 S. 13th Ave., Kelso, WA 98626, open Tuesday through Saturday 10 am – 5 pm with donations taken Tuesday through Saturday 10 am – 4:30 pm. Neither the store page nor the "Ways to Donate" page publishes a list of what is and is not accepted — both say only that the store takes "new and gently used furniture, home decor, appliances, building materials, and more". The store therefore neither accepts nor refuses mattresses in print. Source Not confirmed: The store publishes no accepted or not-accepted item list, so whether it will take a mattress is not established either way. It is not recorded here as an option and it is not recorded as a refusal.