How to get rid of a mattress in Maricopa, 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.

• The City of Maricopa in Pinal County (not Maricopa County, which contains Phoenix) runs no collection and no drop-off of its own. Its only Public Works waste page says "City of Maricopa Waste & Recycling Center officially closed on August 12, 2023" and, "After August 12, residents are encouraged to use other options for their waste and recycling needs currently available within the community", naming three private sites: "Recycle Today Maricopa (45030 W Edwards Cir, Maricopa, AZ 85139, 520-424-5976)", "Waste Management of Arizona Butterfield Landfill (40404 99th Ave, Maricopa, AZ 85139, 602-606-1008)" and "Weinberger Waste Rainbow Valley Landfill (39500 99th Ave, Mobile, AZ 85139, 602-278-9155)". Public Works lists Street Services, Fleet Maintenance, Facilities, Maricopa Express Transit and Waste & Recycling, with no bulk trash, large-item or clean-up program anywhere among them. Whatever bulky-item allowance a Maricopa household has comes from the hauler it subscribes to, not from the city. Source Not confirmed: None of the three named sites publishes a rate card, a mattress fee or a mattress policy, so none of them can be listed as a place to take a mattress Not confirmed: The city does not name the permittees a resident may subscribe to on this page, nor publish their bulk allowances Not confirmed: No city-run clean-up event or free dump day is published
• Maricopa City Code ch. 8.05 makes subscription compulsory and dumping unlawful. § 8.05.020(C): "It is unlawful for any person to place or cause to be placed any refuse upon any public or private property within the city, except as specifically permitted in Chapters 8.05, 8.10, and 8.15 MCC." § 8.05.020(D): "Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, all residential properties within the city limits, which are occupied, shall have refuse services through a contracted waste collection permittee." § 8.05.020(E) forbids avoiding that service and does not exempt the premises from its charges, and (E)(1) requires households whose HOA uses a private contractor to move to the city's approved company when that contract ends. The only exemptions in § 8.05.020(F) are shared service between two adjacent parcels in one ownership, two structures on a common driveway, or a primary and secondary unit on one parcel. § 8.05.020(G)(4) lets a person dispose of their own construction and demolition debris "as long as the quantity is less than 10 cubic yards". A "permittee" is defined in § 8.05.010 as a collector holding a valid city permit, and § 8.05.050 lets the city inspect single-family containers annually. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 8.05 does not name mattresses, set a bulk allowance, or set a set-out window Not confirmed: The code does not list which haulers currently hold a city permit
• Maricopa prices a code violation in ch. 1.10. § 1.10.010(A): "Any person found guilty of violating any provisions of this code, except as otherwise provided in this code, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00)... or by imprisonment for a period not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each day that a violation continues shall be a separate offense", with a reduction to a petty offense fined up to $300 available on the prosecutor's motion. § 1.10.010(B) sets the civil alternative: a citation states that admitting responsibility means correcting the violation and paying "one hundred dollars ($100.00) per day per violation for the first offense; two hundred dollars ($200.00) per day per violation for the second offense; and four hundred dollars ($400.00) per day per violation for any subsequent offense" within ten days, and that failing to do so or to appear lets the magistrate enter default judgment and "impose a sanction of not less than two hundred dollars ($200.00) nor more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) for each alleged violation". There is no right to a jury trial in the civil route. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 1.10 is the general penalty chapter; it does not single out illegal dumping, so the penalty for fly-tipping a mattress in Maricopa rests on the general Class 1 misdemeanor or the civil schedule

• 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