How to get rid of a mattress in Wisconsin Rapids, 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.

• Not an option: The two drop-off sites Wisconsin Rapids runs itself will not take a mattress, and they exclude it twice over in their own words. The city's East Side site at 2200 County Highway W and West Side site at 1751 17th Avenue North are compost sites, and the 2026 Garbage & Recycling Guide states their terms directly: "Materials accepted: Grass clippings, garden waste, leaves, brush & tree limbs." It then prints a refusal list: "Items NOT accepted: Lumber, building materials, furniture, oil, hazardous materials, tires, any material classified as garbage or recycling." Furniture is named, and the closing clause reaches a mattress as well, because the same guide classifies mattresses and box springs as material for the landfill rather than for a cart or a yard waste week. Access is by pass and residency decides the price: "City of Wisconsin residents can obtain passes at no charge at the City Garage or at either site when an attendant is present. Non-residents (outside of the City limits) may purchase a yearly pass for $50.00. Non-resident passes are available from your town or village clerk, or at the City Garage." Summer hours are Monday and Wednesday noon to 7:00 pm and Saturday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on the East Side, and Monday, Wednesday and Friday 7:30 am to 2:30 pm, Tuesday and Thursday 7:30 am to 7:00 pm and Saturday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on the West Side, the East Side closed Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday and holidays and the West Side closed Sunday and holidays. So the only municipal drop-off a Wisconsin Rapids resident can reach is closed to the item, which leaves the Cranberry Creek Landfill the guide names as the city's single published route for a bed. Source Not confirmed: The guide gives summer hours for both compost sites and does not publish winter hours; it separately advertises an "End-of-Season Day for the East Side Compost Site" in November, so the sites are seasonal, but the closing and reopening dates are not stated.
• Wisconsin Rapids puts the disposal of a large item on the householder by name, in the plain-language guide it publishes to its own ordinances. The city's Citizen's Guide to City Codes states, under its garbage and recycling heading, that "residential garbage must be in the gray trash cart; no garbage is permitted outside of the cart" and then settles who owns the problem: "It the responsibility of the tenant/owner to coordinate disposal of large furniture items and appliances." The same guide adds that "The obstruction of streets alleys or sidewalks is prohibited", which is what a bed left at the curb without a route would amount to. The exterior maintenance rule is the one with teeth for a mattress left in a yard or an alley rather than at a curb: under Chapter 36, the city's adopted International Property Maintenance Code, exterior property and the interiors of structures "must be free from an accumulation of rubbish or garbage", and "The resident is responsible for the removal of rubbish and garbage from the property." The city enforces that chapter through a Code Enforcement Officer reached at 715-421-6206, with a non-emergency line at 715-423-4444, and the guide shows the chapter's enforcement pattern on an adjacent nuisance: a lawn not cut within five days of notice may be cut by the city and the cost charged to the owner. Source Not confirmed: The Citizen's Guide cites its garbage rules to "Chapter 6, Mun. Code" while the link beside that heading serves the Chapter 36 property maintenance document, and Chapter 6 of the city code is titled Streets & Sidewalks, so which chapter carries the cart rule could not be established from the city's own pages. Not confirmed: No forfeiture amount or penalty schedule for illegal dumping or for refuse set out improperly is published in the Citizen's Guide, and no separate Wisconsin Rapids dumping ordinance was located. Not confirmed: No set-out window specific to a large item exists, because the city collects none; the 6:00 am rule and the 24-hour rule govern carts only.

• 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