How to get rid of a mattress in Sedro-Woolley, 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.

• Sedro-Woolley's own guidance on bulky items draws a line that matters for a mattress: the city recycling site takes appliances but not soft furniture. Its "What do I do with large and bulky items such as appliances, furniture?" page says of appliances "We accept appliances at our recycling Center. Or you can all and schedule a pickup. Anything with Freon is $30.00 per item. Anything without Freon is $15.00 per item." Of furniture it says "We do accept furniture but not at our recycling site, please call and arrange for us to come and pickup at your place of residence or business", at 360-855-0929. So an upholstered item has to be collected from the property; it cannot be dropped at the city's own site. Source Not confirmed: This page is undated and its appliance fees ($30 and $15) do not match the current Master Fee Schedule ($27.00 refrigerators and freezers, $17.00 other appliances), so it appears to be the older of the two Not confirmed: The page names furniture but not a mattress, and gives no street address for the city recycling center

• 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