How to get rid of a mattress in Stevens Point, WI.

The county prices a mattress by the item, not by weight: "Mattress, Box Springs $15 Each" and "Crib Mattress $5 Each". The general garbage line, whose examples are "toilets, furniture, toys, clothing, carpet, etc.", runs "Minimum Charge (460 lbs. or less) $20 Flat Rate" and "Commercial & Residential $83.50/Ton". Metal bed frames are free when brought in with scrap metal; a wooden bed frame carries a fee. Receiving hours: "Monday-Friday 7:30 am to 3 pm", with Saturdays "Mar-Apr: 7:30 am—10:30 am May-Aug: 7:30 am—11 am Sep-Nov: 7:30 am—10:30 am" and "Dec-Jan: 1st Saturday only* 7:30 am to 10:30 am", closed major holidays. Payment is by "cash, check, Visa, Discover, or Master Card". A load that is not tarped costs more: "Unsecured Load Additional $10", and "We reserve the right to refuse any unsecured load." Phone 715-343-6297. Fee sheet dated June 2026.

• $5 — Portage County's own fee sheet: "Crib Mattress $5 Each". A crib mattress only; a twin or larger falls under the $15 line.
• $15 — Portage County's own fee sheet, dated June 2026: "Mattress, Box Springs $15 Each". Charged per piece, so a mattress and its box spring are $15 apiece. The sheet does not say whether this stands alone or is added to the $20 flat-rate load minimum for the same trip.
• $20 — Portage County's garbage minimum: "Minimum Charge (460 lbs. or less) $20 Flat Rate", against the "Commercial & Residential $83.50/Ton" line for "toilets, furniture, toys, clothing, carpet, etc." This is the minimum for a load of garbage, not a mattress price, and the county does not say whether a mattress-only trip pays it on top of the $15 per-item charge.

Not confirmed: The fee sheet does not say whether the $15 per-item mattress charge stands alone or is added to the $20 flat-rate minimum for the same trip.

Not confirmed: No residency rule is published, so whether a non-resident may use the facility is not established.

Not confirmed: Whether a mattress is recycled or landfilled is not stated.

Not confirmed: No limit on the number of mattresses per trip is published.

From the provider’s own page, checked Nov 7, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.

Portage County Solid Waste & Recycling Fees (fee sheet dated June 2026)

This is the route the City of Wisconsin Rapids itself publishes for a bed: the "Residential Disposal Guide" in the city's 2026 Garbage & Recycling Guide gives the row "Mattresses, Box Springs" no mark in any of its Garbage Cart, Recycling Cart or Yard Waste / Brush Week columns and, under "Other than Curbside", reads "Cranberry Creek Landfill"; the row "Furniture" is routed identically. The site is at 2510 Engel Road, Wisconsin Rapids, and the operator publishes hours of 7:00 am to 3:30 pm Monday through Friday, closed Saturday and Sunday. Its acceptable materials are Municipal Solid Waste, Construction & Demolition Debris, Asbestos-Friable, Asbestos-Non-Friable, Foundry Waste, Inert Plastics, Sandblast Media, Sludges - Industrial (Non regulated/Non RCRA), Soils - Clean and Soils - Contaminated (Non Haz), and the page states the facility does not accept hazardous waste. A mattress is not named on the operator's own page: the naming is the city's. The city's garbage page adds only that "Alternatively, for a fee, residents may take their garbage to Waste Management, 2510 Engel Rd." A Wisconsin Rapids resident has no municipal alternative for the item, because the city's two compost sites publish "Items NOT accepted: Lumber, building materials, furniture, oil, hazardous materials, tires, any material classified as garbage or recycling."

Not confirmed: No mattress fee, minimum load charge or per-ton rate is published for this site by its operator or by the city, so the cost of the trip the city itself recommends is not established. The city states only that a fee applies, and the operator's page carries no rate table at all.

Not confirmed: Whether a household may self-haul in a passenger vehicle or trailer, and whether a scale minimum or a load-covering rule applies, is not published.

Not confirmed: The operator's page lists "non-hazardous free liquid waste" in its additional information while that material is absent from its own acceptable materials list, so the page is internally inconsistent and its detail should be treated as unconfirmed where nothing specific to this site corroborates it.

Not confirmed: Nothing on either page says a mattress taken here is recycled; the facility is described by its operator as a disposal facility, which is why the outcome is recorded as disposal rather than recycling.

From the provider’s own page, checked Nov 6, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.

2026 Garbage & Recycling Guide - City of Wisconsin Rapids Public Works Department

Cranberry Creek Landfill, Wisconsin Rapids, WI - WM Solutions facility page