How to get rid of a mattress in Stanwood, 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.

• Stanwood runs a free annual drop-off day for residents. The city page reads "Clean Sweep — Saturday, May 16 from 9am-2pm (or until dumpsters are full), Stanwood Camano Fairgrounds. On Saturday, May 16, residents can drop off garbage, recycling, scrap metal and more for FREE." Eligibility: "You must be a Stanwood resident living within city limits in order to participate. Attendees must arrive with a current utility invoice and identification." Accepted is "One load each of the following: Garbage — All trash must be bagged; Recycling — Aluminum cans, Cardboard, Glass, Mixed paper, Tin; Scrap Metal — Remove all gas/oil from engines and remove any plastic/wood; Yard Waste/Clean Wood — Lumber must be free of nails and/or screws." Not accepted: "Construction Material, Household Hazardous Waste, Large Appliances, Medical Waste, Tires, TVs and Other Electronics." Other rules: "Event hours are 9 am to 2 pm or until dumpsters are full", "U-hauls or extremely large trailers will not be allowed", "No Commercial Loads", and "City of Stanwood staff has the right to refuse loads/items that are not allowed." Source Not confirmed: Mattresses appear on neither the accepted nor the excluded list. The accepted garbage line requires that "All trash must be bagged", which a mattress cannot practically satisfy, and staff may refuse a load, so whether a mattress is taken at Clean Sweep is not established. The page also gives no year for the May 16 date.
• The City of Stanwood's own Waste Management page hands the whole subject to the hauler: "Most questions regarding your garbage and recycling, starting and stopping service questions are now available online. Please visit WM website for questions regarding service. If you are unable to find your answer you can call Waste Management (WM) at 800-592-9995." Its own content is a set of WM flyers — a business garbage flyer, a business recycling poster, a recycling guide, an invoice guide and the collection schedules. Source Not confirmed: The city page publishes no rate, no bulky-item terms and no mattress guidance of its own.

• 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