How to get rid of a mattress in Rothschild, 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.

• The Village of Rothschild is the one municipality around Wausau that still contracts with Waste Management rather than Harter's. Garbage is collected weekly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays depending on the address, and recycling every other week. The village publishes its cart rules: set carts at the curb the night before or by 6:00 a.m. on collection day, keep at least three feet between carts and other objects, face the wheels away from the street, close the lid completely with no overflow, remove carts within 24 hours after collection, and do not place carts behind parked vehicles or in the roadway, because "Improperly placed carts may not be collected." The village lists what the garbage cart will not take: hazardous waste, electronics, construction and demolition material, and yard waste, and sends residents to the Marathon County Solid Waste Department for those. There is no bulky item, large item or special pickup service on the page, no mattress mention, and no sticker or excess bag charge. The one municipal drop-off is for garden material: the Yard Waste Compost Site at 1001 Leon Street, entrance off St. Marks Street, open around the clock except when snow-covered, restricted to Rothschild residents and to yard waste and brush only. Source
• Rothschild's own code says the municipal collection will not take a large item, and tells residents to deal with it themselves. Chapter 464, Article I, as amended December 11, 2017, provides that "Generally, bulky materials shall be broken up, cut up, or dismantled such that they may be placed fully within containers for collection", and that "Persons shall otherwise dispose of bulky items only as directed by the Village or its contractor, by engaging a direct services provider, or by making their own arrangements for a direct dropoff at a solid waste facility." The chapter then lists what the service refuses outright: "The following items will not be collected by the municipal collection service, and it is the responsibility of the owners of such items to dispose of such waste in a sanitary manner", among them "Household furniture and major appliances", along with stone and rubble, construction debris, yard and garden waste, auto parts, and refuse containing recyclables. Bedding is not named in either provision, so a mattress is caught by the bulky materials rule rather than by the refusal list. On set-out, containers "shall be set at the curbside no sooner than the evening prior to the regular collection day" and "All containers will be removed from the curbside collection point within 24 hours after regular collection time." The chapter bars depositing garbage, refuse or recyclables on any street, alley, public enclosure, vacant lot, house yard or body of water other than in a required container, bars upsetting a container and bars scavenging from one. A violator is subject to Section 1-2 of the code "plus the cost of any resultant waste disposal performed by the Village or its contractor", and the village or its contractor may refuse collection service to anyone not complying with the article. Source Not confirmed: The forfeiture amount is set by the general penalty at Section 1-2 of the Rothschild code, which was not read, so the dollar figure is not established.
• There is no Rothschild bulk item fee to find, because the village's adopted 2026 Fee Schedule sets no solid waste charge of any kind. The schedule runs to several hundred published charges across the Clerk-Treasurer, Finance, Administrator of Public Works, building inspection, planning and zoning functions, and the charges it does set for public works work are for other things entirely: right-of-way permits at $50 for a resident and $250 for a contractor, multi-family, commercial, industrial or utility applicant, grass cutting at $100 for under an hour and $100 plus time and equipment for over, snow removal on the same terms, and debris removal billed as "Time, equipment, & services". No line sets a price for garbage or refuse collection, recycling, a cart, a bulky item, a large item or a special pickup. Taken with the code, which leaves bulky items to the resident, this means a Rothschild household facing a mattress has no village charge to pay and no village service to buy. Source

• 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