How to get rid of a mattress in Oro Valley, 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.

• Not an option: Oro Valley runs no trash collection of any kind, in the town's own words: 'The Town of Oro Valley does not provide nor contract for trash pick-up service.' Residents arrange service individually, although the page notes that some homeowner associations have negotiated group contracts on behalf of their members. The town names three companies operating in the area — Republic Services, Waste Management and Right Away Disposal — without endorsing or pricing any of them. There is consequently no town bulk-item pickup, no free annual allowance and no municipal fee for taking a mattress away: a resident's hauler contract, or a self-haul trip, is the whole of the answer here. Source Not confirmed: The page does not say whether the named haulers offer bulk or large-item pickup to Oro Valley customers, or at what price. Not confirmed: Oro Valley Town Code 9-2-1 says 'The town, or other collectors authorized by the town, shall collect all refuse within the town', which reads against the town's own plain statement; no list of authorized collectors was found published by the town.
• For self-haul, Oro Valley's own page sends residents north to the Pima County Catalina Transfer Station and supplies the street number that the county's own directory omits: 14425 North Oracle Road. The town states that the station accepts household hazardous materials — paint, chemicals, oils, antifreeze and batteries — free of charge. The station is otherwise a normal county transfer station: Pima County's fee schedule, adopted by Board of Supervisors Ordinance 2023-18 and effective January 1, 2024, charges residential haulers $26.25 per vehicle for a load under one ton at Catalina, then $46.00 per ton, with loads at or above one ton prorated fractionally. Source Not confirmed: The town page states the free-of-charge treatment for household hazardous materials only; it does not say a mattress is free, and the county's per-vehicle rate is the published charge for ordinary waste. Not confirmed: Neither the town page nor the county fee schedule states a mattress-specific fee or policy for Catalina, so whether a mattress is ordinary waste or triggers the county's $125.00-per-ton non-standard waste fee is not published. Not confirmed: The town page publishes no opening hours for the station.
• Oro Valley publishes the set-out window that most towns leave unstated. Town Code 9-2-5(B): 'When necessary to set containers at the front curb, they may be set out after six o'clock p.m. of the day preceding regular collection and shall be removed from the curb by six o'clock a.m. of the day after collection.' Section 9-2-5(A) requires all refuse prepared for collection to be placed 'on the curb, or if no curb, the right-of-way line, along a dedicated street or alley', except where the collection agency and the customer have agreed by contract to collect on the premises, and requires that 'All containers and piles of refuse shall be so located as to not be a hazard to pedestrian or vehicular traffic.' Source
• Oro Valley's code sizes curbside refuse so that a mattress cannot lawfully be part of it, and puts the duty to clear large discards on the householder. Town Code 9-2-4(A) requires garbage containers that are tightly covered, rust-resistant metal or plastic and handled, with a capacity not exceeding twenty gallons and a loaded weight not exceeding fifty pounds. Section 9-2-4(B) covers everything else: 'Trash shall be placed in containers or tied in bundles by the customer and set out for collection. Containers may be garbage containers described above, or boxes not exceeding three square feet by four feet deep. In any event, the weight of a loaded container or bundle shall not exceed fifty pounds.' Section 9-2-4(D), 'Appliances and Vehicles', states: 'The customer shall remove or cause to be removed all discarded appliances, vehicles or equipment from their premises or the public right-of-way.' Section 9-2-7 makes it unlawful to deposit refuse in a container you neither own nor are entitled to use as a tenant. Source Not confirmed: The code has no bulky-item, large-item or furniture category, so it does not say in terms what a resident must do with a mattress; 9-2-4(D) names appliances, vehicles and equipment rather than furniture or bedding.
• Two Oro Valley rules bear directly on carrying a mattress away yourself. Town Code 9-3-1(A): 'It is illegal to transport garbage, refuse, aggregate material, or like material within the town limits in an open vehicle unless the material is in a closed container or in an enclosed cargo area.' The exemptions at 9-3-1(B) cover only asphalt, petroleum coke and low-loaded aggregate, and 9-3-1(C) separately requires every vehicle on a town roadway to be 'so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of its load from dropping, shifting, leaking, or otherwise escaping'. Section 9-3-2 requires anyone who spills refuse on a town street to replace it in the vehicle immediately. Section 9-3-3 is the town's illegal dumping rule: 'It is unlawful for any person to place or cause to be placed any refuse upon any public or private property within the town, except as specifically permitted in this chapter.' All three were adopted by Ordinance (O)03-34 on November 5, 2003. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 9 states no penalty amount for a violation of 9-3-1 or 9-3-3; the general penalty provision of the Oro Valley Town Code was not read.

• 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