How to get rid of a mattress in Benson, AZ.

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.

• Benson runs no bulky-item collection of its own and does not contract for one. Its Solid Waste page states that "The City of Benson Solid Waste pickup is currently provided by Waste Connections, formerly known as Southwest Disposal", that "For residential properties, service is offered twice a week, Monday through Friday", and that "Solid waste collection is required for every owner and occupant within city limits. (City Code Chap. 9, §9-1-7)". The published residential rate is a "96 Gallon Cart (twice a week collection) - $16.61" with "Extra Pickup - $10" — that extra pickup is an additional emptying of the cart, not a bulky-item run, and no bulky, large-item, special or annual clean-up service appears anywhere on the page or in the city's three Solid Waste FAQs, which cover only damaged carts, missed collections and holiday schedules. Set-out guidance is "please ensure your can is out before 6 am and away from any vehicles, fences, or gas meters", and the FAQ adds "Place your container out at the curb by 5 am or the night before pickup", with the lid completely closed and facing the street and "6 feet from each side". Questions about bulk items are directed to Waste Connections at 520-881-4227. A commercial rate table is also published, including 1.5 cubic yard service at $52.69 for one collection and $86.25 for two, and 3.0 cubic yard service from $88.63. Source Not confirmed: Mattresses are not mentioned anywhere on the city's solid waste pages — neither accepted, nor priced, nor refused — so whether Waste Connections would take one on the city contract for a fee is unestablished; the page only says to call them. Not confirmed: Benson City Code Chapter 9 was not read beyond the § 9-1-7 mandatory-service reference the city quotes, so the city's own bulky-refuse and illegal-dumping provisions and their penalties are unrecorded. Not confirmed: The $86.25 figure on Benson's commercial table is a 1.5 cubic yard twice-weekly dumpster rate and is not a mattress fee; it is noted only because Waste Connections publishes an identically priced mattress charge on vendor-templated pages elsewhere and the two must not be confused.
• Benson publishes no drop-off site of its own. The city's Solid Waste page and its complete set of Solid Waste FAQs name no landfill, transfer station, convenience center or residents' drop-off day, and refer every question outside cart collection to the contracted hauler. The self-haul answer for a Benson mattress is the county's Benson Transfer Station at 980 N Madison Street, already carried with its weighed $68.00/ton rate, $5.00 minimum, $2.00 residential unsecured-load penalty and Monday-Saturday 7:30AM-3:00PM hours; this observation records only that the city itself adds nothing. Source Not confirmed: The city does not tell residents about the county transfer station at all, so no city-published hours or fees exist to cross-check the county's.
• Not an option: Benson's thrift shop refuses mattresses in writing. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Southern Arizona, which operates the thrift store at 181 S Patagonia St, Benson, AZ 85602, (520) 586-9438, states on its Donate Goods page: "USED MATTRESSES cannot be accepted but we gladly take most gently used items that we can re-sell or distribute." Its collection drivers are also barred from hauling "items such as water heaters, evaporative coolers, flammables, chemicals, garage doors, tires, weapons, raw building materials, waterbeds, car parts or live animals". For a town of five thousand with no city bulky service, knowing this before loading the truck is worth as much as an acceptance would be. Source Not confirmed: No opening hours are published for the Benson store on the operator's own pages.
• Benson has nothing mattress-specific. The city's Solid Waste page publishes cart collection by Waste Connections and a rate table and nothing else — no recycling program, no drop-off, no take-back, no mattress recycler — and its FAQs add nothing. Arizona operates no statewide mattress stewardship program and the Mattress Recycling Council's Bye Bye Mattress program covers only California, Connecticut and Rhode Island, so no MRC site serves Cochise County. The only established route for a Benson mattress is disposal at the county's Benson Transfer Station. Source Not confirmed: Cochise County's own recycling arrangements at its transfer stations were amended recently and were not re-examined here; whether any of them touch mattresses is not established, though the county fee schedule prices mattresses as disposal.

• New River county address is 41835 North New River Road, Phoenix 85087, while ADEQ lists 41835 N Lake Pleasant, Peoria 85382. Rainbow Valley county street number is 17795 versus ADEQ 17735. Cave Creek county city label differs from ADEQ Carefree. Source
• County receiving list includes 15 transfer stations plus Western Regional Landfill. It differs from ADEQ on Double Adobe direction (6996 N versus S Central Highway), Bowie ZIP (85643 versus 85605), Tombstone ZIP (85638 versus 85352), Sunsites city/ZIP and Bisbee road spelling (Tovreaville versus Torveaville). Source
• ADEQ Composting, Recycling & HHW FAQs (revised Oct. 28, 2025) read in full, including the collapsed accordion panels. No statewide mattress stewardship program, landfill ban or retailer take-back appears anywhere on the page. The resident recycling panel tells people to use the ADEQ eMap or to search "City of [where you live] recycling", and if the municipality offers nothing, to search "[County you live in] recycling" for a drop-off service. Mattress disposal in Arizona is handled by local governments. Source
• The statewide locator ADEQ links from its recycling pages is the "Arizona Recycling Locator" ArcGIS Experience app. Its own text says the app covers E-Waste, Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) and General Recycling in your community, and carries an ADEQ disclaimer that it cannot verify the listed items will be accepted at all locations and that residents should contact the facility. There is no mattress or bulky-item category among the three advertised layers. Source
• Mattress Recycling Council's Program States page names exactly four states where it operates recycling programs under enacted mattress recycling laws: California, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Oregon. Arizona is not among them, confirming there is no MRC-run mattress stewardship program or Bye Bye Mattress free drop-off network in Arizona. Source