How to get rid of a mattress in Puyallup, 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.

• Puyallup's Garbage Service Information page: 'For health and sanitation reasons, all occupied residences in Puyallup are required to receive and pay for solid waste collection services, per Puyallup Municipal Code section 6.12.030. Currently, the City contracts with D.M. Disposal to provide these services. Questions regarding the collection of material or your bill should be directed to D.M. Disposal' (PO Box 532, Puyallup, WA 98371, 253-414-0347). On clean-ups: 'The City of Puyallup conducts three citywide cleanup events a year - Fall Cleanup, Treecycling in January and Spring Cleanup. During the Spring and Fall cleanup weeks, up to three containers of extra garbage, extra yard waste and one major appliance can be placed at the curb during your regular pickup day... The cleanup/recycling days are coordinated through D.M. Disposal and is free to all City of Puyallup utility customers. Customers are notified in the mail through D.M. Disposal's billing when the recycling days will be held.' The free allowance is therefore defined by containers of garbage plus one major appliance; the page names no bulky-item or large-item category and no mattress. Source Not confirmed: The page does not state whether a mattress may be set out during a clean-up week, and does not publish any fee for collecting one; nothing here establishes either acceptance or refusal. Not confirmed: Clean-up dates are notified by mail through the hauler's billing rather than published on the page.
• Puyallup Municipal Code ch. 6.12 art. I sets the local rules in unusually specific terms. PMC 6.12.060, 'Penalty for improper disposal': 'It is unlawful for any person to bury, burn, dump, collect, or in any other manner dispose of solid waste upon any street, alley, public place or private property within the city. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor under PMC 1.01.110 and any person convicted thereof may be punished by a fine of not more than $500.00 or by imprisonment for no more than 90 days or by both such fine and imprisonment.' PMC 6.12.062 applies the same penalty to depositing solid waste 'in a solid waste container owned or maintained on the premises of another unless invited, licensed or otherwise privileged to do so'. PMC 6.12.065 adds an evidentiary rule: 'Whenever solid waste dumped in violation of PMC 6.12.060 or 6.12.062 contains three or more items bearing the name of one individual, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the individual whose name appears on such items committed the unlawful dumping.' On what a mattress would cost, PMC 6.12.045 says only that 'The contractor will bill customers directly for collection of solid waste that exceeds the level of service designated by the customer', and PMC 6.12.080 requires that 'The city shall maintain, publish and make available to the public a current schedule of rates for solid waste handling service', which 'may occur through the city's website'. Source Not confirmed: PMC 6.12.080 obliges the city to publish a current solid waste rate schedule, but no schedule carrying a bulky-item or mattress charge was found on the city's website.
• The City of Puyallup's published rate sheet, 'UTILITY RATE INFORMATION, Updated February 2026', covers water, sewer and storm only, plus a 'LANDFILL FEE' of $1.27 for can service and $14.87 for container service (the charge for the city-owned landfill's gas migration system under PMC 6.12.047). The sheet contains no garbage collection rate of any kind and no extra-item, bulky-item or mattress charge. In Puyallup the cost of collecting a mattress is set and billed by D.M. Disposal directly and is not part of anything the city publishes. Source Not confirmed: No mattress or bulky-item price is published by the city or established from any primary source; an unpublished fee is not free.

• 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