How to get rid of a mattress in Yelm, 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.

• On paper Yelm runs a city collection system: YMC 8.12.020 makes "the collection, disposal and removal of waste materials within the city universal and compulsory under the supervision of the city", and YMC 8.12.030 says "The city shall establish and operate a system ... The city may, if it deems it advisable, contract with private agencies", for a term of no more than five years. YMC 8.12.150 gives the city "the exclusive right to gather and collect waste material within the city" and makes it unlawful to dump waste "upon any lot of land or any water or waterways within the corporate limits of the city" — but expressly allows "the hauling to an authorized disposal site of ashes, tin cans or other noncombustible refuse, or rubbish, from any premises where the hauling is to be done by the owner or occupant of said premises". YMC 8.12.035 (Ord. 1075, 2021) designates the Thurston County system for disposal of everything generated or collected in the city. Source Not confirmed: The chapter states no set-out time and no fine amount.
• Yelm's adopted rate schedule has no mattress or furniture line at all. YMC 8.12.100 prices commercial and industrial cans and dumpsters, carry and stair charges, and then one bulky category only: "Appliances that can be handled by one man: 1. Collection at end of regular service day, charge per unit $7.50; 2. Special service collection, one hour minimum, charge per hour or fraction thereof $50.00." Mattresses, box springs and furniture are named nowhere in the schedule. YMC 8.12.090 also requires that for any residential collection involving more than two standard containers or bundles "the additional waste material shall be accumulated and deposited for collection only in an additional garbage bag sold by the city for that purpose". Source Not confirmed: The code's appliance rate cannot be read across to a mattress, and the city publishes no bulky-item or mattress price anywhere else. Not confirmed: The codified schedule contains no residential can rates, so the current residential prices are not published in the code.
• In practice Yelm has contracted the work out and bills nothing for it: the city's Utilities page covers city water, sewer and stormwater accounts, and lists garbage under other providers as "Garbage & Recycling — Lemay Pacific Disposal, 360-923-0111". A resident wanting a mattress taken calls the hauler, not the city. Source Not confirmed: The city page gives no rates and does not say whether the hauler will take a mattress or what it charges.
• Not an option: Yelm has a Habitat store of its own — the Yelm Habitat Store at 207 E Yelm Ave, Yelm, WA 98597, run by South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity — and it will not take a mattress: the charity's "What We Accept" page lists "Mattresses or boxsprings" under "Items we are unable to accept". Source

• 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