How to get rid of a mattress in Port Townsend, 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.

• Not an option: Port Townsend's Habitat store refuses the bed by name, and then says where to try instead. Habitat for Humanity of East Jefferson County's donation guidelines head one column "Yes, Please!" and the other "Not at this time, thank you…", and under "The following are items we unfortunately cannot accept this time" the list includes, verbatim, "Bed Frames, Headboards Mattresses, Box Springs" — alongside audio-visual equipment, auto parts, building and construction materials, composite or press board, computers, clothing, entertainment centers, luggage, mini-blinds, musical instruments and sporting goods. The "Yes, Please!" column does take "Bedroom Furniture – armoires & wardrobes, dressers, night stands, chests" and "Linens – bedware, blankets, decorative pillows, duvets, comforters…", so bedding is welcome and the bed is not. The affiliate then does the reader's next search for them, listing under the heading "Mattresses": "Dove House www.dovehousejc.org/ 360-385-5292" and "Bayside Housing www.baysidehousing.org/ 360-385-4637". The same sheet gives the store as "PORT TOWNSEND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY STORE, 2001 West Sims Way, Port Townsend, WA 98368, 360-385-9653" and offers "a FREE pickup of large donations" on that number. Two cautions on the sheet's own figures: it is dated October 2021, and its line for "Jefferson County Solid Waste… Weight-based disposal fees include tax and are approximately 130lbs for $10.00" does not match the County's current published minimum, so the County's own rate governs. Source Not confirmed: Whether Dove House or Bayside Housing actually take a donated mattress, and on what terms, was not established — they are named by Habitat, not by themselves
• The store's live page confirms the address and widens the hours the 2021 leaflet gave, which matters to anyone planning a trip with a car full of furniture. "Store info: 2001 W. Sims Way, Port Townsend 360-385-9653 store@habitatejc.org", "Store hours: Monday – Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m." — where the affiliate's own donation guidelines PDF still prints "Open Wed – Sat, 10 AM – 5 PM". What the store wants is described in general terms: "We accept a wide range of gently used household items in clean, sellable condition", with furniture named first. The live page does not repeat the refused-items list; the guidelines PDF is where mattresses, box springs, bed frames and headboards are excluded by name. Source Not confirmed: The store's live page publishes no refused-items list, so the mattress exclusion is only findable in the affiliate's October 2021 guidelines PDF; whether that exclusion still stands is not restated anywhere current

• 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