How to get rid of a mattress in Marshfield, WI.

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.

• Marshfield's curbside service does not include bulky items, and the city routes them to the transfer station instead. The city's Garbage and Recycling page describes weekly garbage collection and recyclables collected every other week on the regular garbage day, with carts set curbside by 6 a.m. on collection day; it carries a separate Bulk Waste Service page for large items, and names no curbside bulk item, large item or special pickup anywhere. For drop-off it sends residents to Waste Management, and warns that the window has narrowed: the site is no longer open to the public on Saturdays, which the city attributes to staffing shortages, low tonnage and the expected shutdown of the Cranberry Creek Landfill on Saturdays, noting that the yard waste site is not affected. Garbage and recycling questions go to the city at 715-486-2081 and drop-off questions to Waste Management at 715-502-3565. Source Not confirmed: The city gives no date for the end of Saturday public drop-off at the Waste Management site.
• Marshfield straddles the Wood and Marathon county line, and its solid waste rules are the city's own on both sides of it: Chapter 12, Solid Waste Disposal and Recycling, amended April 28, 2026 by Ordinance No. 1541, applies "to all occupants of single family and two-to four-unit residences, multiple-family dwellings and nonresidential facilities and properties within the corporate boundaries of the city". The set-out window is tight and unusually specific. Under Section 12-02(3), carts "shall not be set out more than 12 hours before the day of collection and shall be removed no later than 24 hours after collection", and "No refuse containers of any type shall be located so they are visible from the front of the property, except in cases of scheduled pickup." A cart must stand at least five feet from all objects, including other carts, mailboxes, parked vehicles and trees, with the lid opening facing the street and the wheels facing the residence. Garbage cans, barrels, boxes and open containers are prohibited for regular collection. Section 12-03(1) authorizes a charge the city has never set: "A reasonable charge may be made for any collection service given by the City of Marshfield under this section", with the board of public works to determine what is a special service and "also set the fee to be charged in each case". No such special collection fee is published, and the city's published answer for a bulky item is the free resident drop-off rather than a priced pickup. Section 12-03(3) restricts the city's disposal capacity to the city: "No person shall bring waste for disposal into the City of Marshfield unless such person is authorized to do so by the Board of Public Works." Section 12-03(4) lists what a cart may not contain, including hazardous waste, waste tires, lead-acid batteries, remodeling and demolition materials, construction debris, concrete, brick, paving materials, soil, large tree debris, stumps, shrubs with intact root balls and electronic devices; bedding is absent from that list. Under Section 12-04(3), a violation of the chapter other than Section 12-67 carries a forfeiture of not less than $10 or more than $1,000 for each violation, while a violation of Section 12-67, which prohibits disposing of separated recyclables, carries $50 for a first violation, $200 for a second and not more than $2,000 for a third or later one. Dumping is addressed separately at Section 12-03(c), which bars raking, depositing, throwing, placing or leaving solid waste or yard waste on any highway, street, court, lane, alley or other public way, park, vacant lot, yard or body of water except in a required container. Citations are issued by the city police. Source Not confirmed: Section 12-03(1) authorizes a special collection service charge to be set by the board of public works, and no such fee schedule is published, so no price is established for a special collection by the city. Not confirmed: Chapter 12 neither permits nor bars putting bedding in a cart: mattresses are absent from the Section 12-03(4) unacceptable waste list, and absence from that list establishes nothing either way.

• 7 Rivers lists W6833 Industrial Blvd., Onalaska WI 54650 and phone (507) 205-2082. Operator describes recovering steel, foam and fibers from mattresses. Name and full address support the original national-directory facility identity; directory phone 608-783-6727 x103 differs. Source
• DNR RID=104 Rodefeld record FID 113127300 lists 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way, Madison 53713-1400, while county landfill page gives customer location 7102 Maahic Way, Madison 53718. Preserve both; registry address may be administrative but that explanation is not verified. Source
• La Crosse FAQ directs arrivals to 3240 Berlin Drive; DNR RID=104 FID 632063630 lists 3200 Berlin Dr, La Crosse 54601-1818. Keep source-address discrepancy explicit rather than overwriting either. Source
• Wisconsin DNR list of materials banned from landfills/incinerators (containers, cardboard, paper, #1-2 plastics, electronics, lead-acid batteries, major appliances, oil filters/waste oil, tires, yard waste) does not include mattresses. Source
• Wisconsin DNR: residents find their local recycling 'responsible unit' via an RU contact list, an RU map (experience.arcgis.com/experience/e2a75fccdc834fd5be13acd9fede067f) or a municipality-to-RU lookup. Source