How to get rid of a mattress in Sunnyside, 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: The finding a Sunnyside reader needs before they drag a mattress to the curb: it will not be collected. SMC 8.04.070(C): "Nonconforming Items. Nonconforming items as defined in SMC 8.04.010(G) placed out to the curb or edge of the street or alley shall not be collected by the contractor except as provided in SMC 8.04.095(B)." And the definition, SMC 8.04.010(G), reaches furniture by name: "Examples of such nonconforming items are large, bulky items, including tree limbs and stumps over four inches in diameter, furniture and appliances, concrete, building materials, tires, etc." The only route the code leaves open, SMC 8.04.095(B), is a charge pegged to somebody else's tipping fee: "Nonconforming residential refuse will be assessed a charge equal to the rates established from time to time by the Board of Commissioners of Yakima County applicable to disposal of specific nonconforming residential refuse, plus applicable mileage charges established for the City's contract refuse hauler." Source Not confirmed: SMC 8.04.095(B) allows the charge but the amount is in a Schedule of Fees and Charges adopted by resolution, which is not in the code Not confirmed: Mattresses are not named individually; they fall in as furniture and as items unwieldy by size
• Chapter 2.02 SMC, the chapter SMC 8.04 points to for every Sunnyside garbage figure, contains no figures. It "sets forth the City's process for establishing rates for fees and charges for services and applications provided by the City of Sunnyside", intending that "the City Council should pass a resolution establishing the approved compendium of charges" and that the schedule "may be revised and updated from time to time... as approved by the City Council through resolution". The rate tables themselves are not in the code. Source Not confirmed: The current Schedule of Fees and Charges was not found published on the city's site, so no Sunnyside garbage or nonconforming refuse figure could be established

• 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