How to get rid of a mattress in Poulsbo, 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.

• Poulsbo is one of the few Washington cities that still collects garbage with its own crews: the City of Poulsbo Solid Waste Utility, run out of Public Works at 360.779.4078, collects every week including all holidays, using totes the city owns and numbers to each address. The 2026 Residential Solid Waste Services flyer sets one-can rates at $65.16 a month for a 64-gallon tote, $38.28 for a 32-gallon and $33.31 for a 20-gallon, and the set-out rules: "TOTES MUST BE OUT FOR PICK-UP BY 7:00 AM", "ALL TRASH MUST FIT IN THE TOTE WITH THE LID CLOSED; IF YOU HAVE EXTRA, TAGS CAN BE PURCHASED AT CITY HALL OR ONLINE", "ALL TOTES MUST BE SPACED THREE FEET FROM OBSTACLES; FENCES/VEHICLES/MAILBOXES" and "ALL TRASH MUST BE IN TIED BAGS". Recycling is collected by Bainbridge Disposal on the alternate week. For anything that will not fit, the city rents temporary dumpsters: a 2-yard at $60 for delivery and the dump at removal, $42 for each additional dump and $10 a week after the first week; 4-yard $120/$84/$10; 6-yard $180/$126/$10; 8-yard $240/$168/$10. The dumpster exclusion list names "TIRES, APPLIANCES, COMPUTER MONITORS, TELEVISIONS", "CONCRETE, ROCKS OR SOD, LAWN MOWERS, BBQ'S" and "LARGE RECYCLABLE ITEMS – METAL AND BI-METAL PRODUCTS" — mattresses are not on it. Source Not confirmed: The flyer does not say whether the city will collect a mattress at the curb, and names no mattress or bulky-item rate. Not confirmed: Mattresses appear on neither the accepted nor the excluded list for a temporary dumpster.
• Poulsbo Municipal Code Chapter 8.16 confirms the city's monopoly and answers the mattress question in the only way the city does. POMC 8.16.080: "The city of Poulsbo has the exclusive right to collect refuse, decaying matter or garbage, and no other person, group, business, firm or corporation shall make such collection unless specifically authorized by the city council." POMC 8.16.020(A) requires containers to be "tightly covered and placed at the nearest street edge or sidewalk"; 8.16.020(C) makes owners and tenants responsible for taking them back in, and "in no case shall empty containers be left at the street's edge longer than twenty-four hours". POMC 8.16.040(B)(2): "Residential cans and recycling bins must be at curbside by seven a.m." POMC 8.16.040(B)(1): "Extra untagged garbage or refuse not in approved and prepaid cans, containers or bags will not be picked up; however, extra garbage tags can be purchased at City Hall." The bulky price exists but is not published: POMC 8.16.040(B)(7) says "The public works director is authorized to establish, at least annually, a rate for garbage and refuse requiring special handling. Such rates shall be on file at the Poulsbo public works office and with the city clerk and shall be provided to consumers upon request. Consumers may obtain such rates by calling the city at (360) 779-4078", set at "the actual cost of providing service plus a ten percent overhead charge". POMC 8.16.030 tells owners they "may contact the public works director for special garbage pickup". POMC 8.16.040(E) treats illegal dumping and putting refuse in a container paid for by someone else as "illegal dumping or theft of services", to "be prosecuted in accordance with the law", and POMC 8.16.090 sets the penalty for any violation of the chapter at a fine of "not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or ... imprisoned for not less than one day nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment". Source Not confirmed: The special-handling rate that would cover a mattress is on file with the city clerk and given out by telephone, not published, so no figure can be quoted.

• 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