How to get rid of a mattress in Somerton, 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.

• Somerton's code confirms that a bulky item can be collected outside the annual clean up, by prior arrangement and for a fee. § 9-3-1(D) provides: "Special collections of bulky, heavy, or uncontainerable refuse shall be charged at the rate set by resolution. Prior agreement must be made between the refuse generator and the Public Works Director or his or her designated representative to initiate this service and the accompanying charges." § 9-3-1(G) is the authority for the annual campaign: "Periodic refuse removal projects may be undertaken at the pleasure of the City Council without charge to the generator to encourage clean up of property, but shall be subject to the limitations and instructions established for that particular period." § 9-3-1(A) leaves all rates to Council resolution, and § 9-3-1(E) lets the City Manager "establish special rates for unusual or unique situations" based on the cost of the service. Unpaid collection charges become a personal debt collectable by civil suit (§ 9-3-2) and, after 30 days, a recorded lien on all the generator's real and personal property in the county lasting up to three years (§ 9-3-3). Public Works is at 143 N State Ave., Somerton, AZ 85350, (928) 722-7322. Source Not confirmed: The Council resolution setting the special-collection rate is not reproduced in the code and no fee schedule is published on the city site, so the price of an off-cycle bulky pickup in Somerton is unknown. Not confirmed: The code does not say how much notice "prior agreement" requires.
• Somerton's dumping rules are enforceable and include one clause residents rarely expect. § 9-3-4 makes it unlawful to "Place or cause to be placed any refuse upon any public or private property not owned or under his or her control" (A) and, separately, "to place or cause to be placed any refuse upon any public or private property within the city, except as specifically permitted in this chapter" (O). Subsection (R) adds a cost on top of any fine: a person who places refuse on property they do not control "shall be guilty of violating this chapter and, in addition to any fine which may be imposed for violation of any provision of this code, shall be liable for all charges which may be assessed pursuant to this section for the removal of the refuse or debris". Subsection (M) requires hauled refuse to be "contained in watertight containers so constructed and load covered or protected so as to prevent any such refuse from falling, leaking, or spilling therefrom", and (N) requires anyone who spills refuse on a city street to replace it in the vehicle immediately. Subsection (S) prohibits scavenging from a set-out receptacle. Subsection (T) removes the option of opting out: "No person or commercial establishment within the city shall be permitted to avoid or refuse to accept the solid waste collection and disposal service, and the failure of any person to accept the service shall not exempt the person from the payment of the charges herein set forth, unless his or her or its solid waste is disposed of by a city-permitted private collector." The section closes "Penalty, see Article 1-8". The Annual Clean Up page reinforces the same point locally by telling residents to "Call Somerton Police Department if you see someone dumping material in your area" and by referring early set-outs to Code Enforcement. Source Not confirmed: Article 1-8, which sets the fine, was not read, so no penalty amount is recorded. Not confirmed: Nothing in the chapter requires a mattress to be wrapped, and nothing addresses mobile-home park or HOA restrictions — though the Annual Clean Up page shows two named subdivisions are excluded from the city's bulky service.
• Crossroads Mission names Somerton in its pickup area — "Scheduled donations from cities across Arizona, including Yuma, Foothills, Wellton, San Luis, & Somerton" — and will take furniture including "Dressers, beds, tables, chairs, couches, end tables, entertainment centers, lamps, Mirrors, wardrobes, benches, bookshelves" plus working appliances, with bedding limited to linens such as "pillows, pillowcases, mattress covers, bedspreads and comforters". Donations can also be brought to the 2nd Chance Thrift Store, 550 West 8th Street, Yuma, Arizona 85364, (928) 726-0491, 08:00 am - 04:00 pm. The word mattress appears on the list only in "mattress covers", so the mission publishes no mattress policy either way and is not a confirmed mattress route. Source Not confirmed: Whether "beds" includes a mattress is not stated. Not confirmed: No Somerton thrift shop, furniture bank or ReStore with a published donation policy was found.
• Somerton has nothing mattress-specific. The sanitation page describes the city's curbside recycling program — plastic, metal, paper, glass, aluminum and cardboard, 3,000 containers delivered from November 2010, with the stated aim of reducing landfill tipping cost — and its recycling brochure is offered in English and Spanish, but mattresses appear nowhere in it and the recycling plant's only posted restriction is that since January 8, 2018 it "will not be accepting branches and trees until further notice" (repeated in Spanish). No mattress recycler, no retailer take-back and no mattress program is published for Somerton, and Arizona operates no statewide mattress stewardship program. Source Not confirmed: Where Somerton's collected material goes after the city's recycling plant is not published, so nothing can be said about the fate of a mattress taken in the annual clean up.

• 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