How to get rid of a mattress in San Luis, 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.

• San Luis's code is unusually blunt about anything that does not fit the cart, which is what makes the annual campaign the only curbside route for a mattress. Chapter 13.05 § 13.05.200(C) states: "The City shall only collect solid waste that fits inside the container. The City shall not collect any material set outside the container. Discarded boxes shall always be flattened (cut or folded) so that they fit inside the container." § 13.05.200(E) is the only route out for oversized material: heavy items that would overload the container "shall not be placed in the container" and "The City's customer may haul such material to a landfill or request a special pickup service from the City to collect it for a fee which City Council sets by resolution from time to time." § 13.05.210 sets the set-out window: solid waste "shall be placed after 6:00 p.m. of the night before the regular collection day and no later than 6:00 a.m. the day of collection", containers "at the edge of the curb with the front of the container facing the street and at least ten feet away from any object including parked cars", located so as "not block the street, sidewalk, gutter, or otherwise be a hazard", and "removed from the curb by 9:00 p.m. of the day of collection". § 13.05.330 makes dumping unlawful: "It is unlawful for any person to place, or cause to be placed, any solid waste upon any public or private property within the City, except as specifically permitted in this chapter." § 13.05.310 requires hauled waste to be in "strong watertight vehicles or vehicles with watertight receptacles, constructed to prevent any solid waste from falling, leaking or spilling". Collection is the city's monopoly under § 13.05.020, and under § 13.05.050 the city "may discontinue solid waste removal" once an account is a month delinquent. Source Not confirmed: The code never uses the words bulky, mattress or furniture: § 13.05.200(E)'s examples are "concrete, bricks, stone, lumber, soil, tree trunks, auto parts, and the like", so whether a mattress falls under the special pickup service it authorizes is not settled by the code. Not confirmed: The Council resolution that sets the special pickup fee is not reproduced or linked, so the price is unknown. Not confirmed: Chapter 13.05 states no penalty for dumping; the penalty provision was not located.
• Nothing mattress-specific exists for San Luis. The city's Solid Waste Division page and its Annual Community Cleanup page between them publish the whole of what the city offers — scheduled residential collection, special pickup services, the annual campaign and a pointer to the new free Yuma County transfer station — and name no mattress recycler, no retailer or manufacturer take-back and no recycling program that would keep a mattress out of the ground. The only recycling San Luis publishes is the weekly curbside recyclables stream. Arizona has no statewide mattress stewardship program, so there is no state-run collection site to fall back on either. Source Not confirmed: A mattress set out for the annual campaign or taken to the county transfer station has no published end destination, so whether any of it is recovered rather than buried is unknown.
• The nearest charity that will collect furniture from a San Luis address is Crossroads Mission in Yuma, which lists San Luis by name in its pickup area — "Scheduled donations from cities across Arizona, including Yuma, Foothills, Wellton, San Luis, & Somerton" — and takes in "Dressers, beds, tables, chairs, couches, end tables, entertainment centers, lamps, Mirrors, wardrobes, benches, bookshelves" and appliances, with linens including "mattress covers". Its 2nd Chance Thrift Store is at 550 West 8th Street, Yuma, Arizona 85364, (928) 726-0491, 08:00 am - 04:00 pm. The word mattress appears on the donation list only as "mattress covers", so the mission publishes no mattress policy and cannot be offered as a mattress route. Source Not confirmed: Whether "beds" on the accepted list includes a mattress, or only a frame, is not stated, and mattresses are neither accepted nor refused in writing. Not confirmed: No San Luis thrift shop or furniture bank with a published donation policy was found; only the Yuma mission publishes terms.

• 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