How to get rid of a mattress in Sierra Vista, 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.

• Sierra Vista's code puts the bulky rules in the ordinance rather than leaving them to the hauler, and it prices an uncontained pile. § 52.04(B) Bulky Refuse: "Bulky refuse and furniture shall be placed at the front curb, unless otherwise designated by the Public Works Department, tied in bundles or placed in boxes by the customer. Boxes and bundles shall not exceed four (4) square feet by four (4) square feet deep in measurement and not to exceed sixty (60) pounds in weight. If the loads are not bundled or contained, the City will assess appropriate collection fees and disposal fees for program cost recovery. The Director of Public Works or designee, may provide bulky item service to any residential or commercial customer, subject to the appropriate solid waste management service fees, if in the Director of Public Works' or designee's judgment, a health or safety hazard exists, in a public right-of-way." § 52.04(A) requires that "All refuse must be bagged and tied, and placed in a container to be acceptable for collection", and § 52.04(D) limits appliance collection to items "two (2) persons can readily lift into a collection vehicle". § 52.05 sets the set-out window for containers: out "after six (6:00) P.M. of the day preceding regular collection and no later than seven (7:00) A.M. of the designated regular collection day", removed "by six (6:00) A.M. of the day after collection", with "All containers and piles of refuse" located so as not to block "the alley, sidewalk, mailbox, driveway, or gutter". § 52.08 explains why the county runs the drop-off end: under the intergovernmental agreement with Cochise County, "the designated solid waste disposal site is hereby established as any County Solid Waste Disposal Facility." § 52.09 then makes it "unlawful for any owner, occupant, person, firm, association, or corporation to dispose of any refuse within the City except at locations designated by the City", and § 52.07 that "No person may dump any unauthorized items in any alleys, streets, drainageways, vacant lots, premises, or public rights-of-way" and no one may dump into another's dumpster or container without permission or scavenge from one set out for collection. Both sections close "Penalty, see § 10.99". Source Not confirmed: § 10.99, the general penalty section, was not read, so no fine amount or offense class is recorded for Sierra Vista. Not confirmed: The four-square-foot bundle limit in § 52.04(B) cannot be reconciled from the code alone with the 4' x 6' x 3' envelope the Special Pickups page allows; which governs a mattress is unresolved. Not confirmed: The ordinance does not name mattresses and does not require wrapping one, and it says nothing about apartment or HOA restrictions.
• Sierra Vista operates no drop-off site of its own. Its Trash & Wastewater Utilities page lists the city's whole service — "twice weekly curbside pickup of trash, special pickups of green waste and bulky items, and providing dumpster rentals for big jobs" — with no landfill, transfer station, convenience center or residents' drop-off day among them, and directs bulky item and green waste inquiries to Public Works at (520) 458-5775. The self-haul answer is the county's, and the city says so in ordinance: § 52.08 designates "any County Solid Waste Disposal Facility" as the city's disposal site under its intergovernmental agreement with Cochise County. The nearest is the county's Sierra Vista Transfer Station at 7201 E Highway 90, already carried with its weighed $68.00/ton rate, $5.00 minimum and Monday-Saturday 7:30AM-3:00PM hours; this observation records only that the city adds nothing of its own to that. Source Not confirmed: The city's dumpster rental rates were not read, so the cost of renting a dumpster as an alternative to a sticker is unknown.
• Nothing mattress-specific serves Sierra Vista. The city's own solid-waste pages publish exactly three routes for a large item — the $50.00 special pickup sticker, a rented dumpster, and the Cochise County disposal facility its ordinance designates — and name no mattress recycler, no retailer or manufacturer take-back and no mattress recycling program. Arizona runs no statewide mattress stewardship program, and the Mattress Recycling Council's Bye Bye Mattress program operates only in California, Connecticut and Rhode Island, so there is no MRC collection site in Cochise County to send anyone to. A Sierra Vista mattress ends as disposal. Source Not confirmed: No independent search was run for a private mattress dismantler operating in Cochise County without a web presence; the finding rests on the city publishing none and the county fee schedule pricing 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