How to get rid of a mattress in Thatcher, 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.

• Thatcher's code makes it an offense to dump a mattress anywhere but an approved landfill, and puts the cleanup cost on the property owner. Sec. 50.03(A)-(B): "It is unlawful for any owner, tenant, lessee, occupant or person in possession of any building, structure or premises within the town to fail to provide for the disposal of his or her garbage or refuse" and "to dispose of his or her garbage and refuse at other than a landfill approved by the town for that purpose." Sec. 50.20 defines LITTER as "Any rubbish, trash, weeds, filth or debris which constitute a hazard to public health and safety and shall include all putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, including garbage, trash, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles and solid market and industrial waste; any deposit, accumulation, pile or heap of brush, grass, debris, weeds, cans, cloth, paper, wood, rubbish or other unsightly or unsanitary matter of any kind whatsoever." Sec. 50.21(A): "No person shall throw or deposit litter on any public place or occupied or unoccupied private premises within the town, whether owned by the person or not", and (B) makes an offender "liable for all costs which may be assessed pursuant to this subchapter for the removal of the litter." Sec. 50.22 requires an owner to "at all times maintain the premises free of litter". Secs. 50.24 to 50.28 set the enforcement route: written notice with at least 30 days to comply and an estimate of the town's removal cost, personal or certified-mail service, a written appeal to Council before the compliance date, removal by the town at the owner's expense, and a lien for the cost. Sec. 50.04(A) also caps containers at 30 gallons and 50 pounds and requires that cans "be kept on private property and shall not be left upon the public streets and alleys, except for a reasonable time on the day of pickup." Source Not confirmed: The code names no apartment or HOA rule for bulky items; multi-unit properties are covered only by the general container provisions.
• Thatcher's penalty for dumping or for refusing to clear litter is civil, daily and can become a lien on the land. Sec. 10.99(A): "Any person found responsible for violating any provisions of this code, except as otherwise provided in this code, shall be responsible for a civil code infraction, and upon the finding of responsibility therefor may be punished by a civil sanction not to exceed $500. Each day that a violation continues shall be a separate offense punishable as herein provided." Sub-section (A)(1): "In addition to any monetary civil sanction, the Civil Hearing Officer shall order the defendant to abate the civil code infraction, unless it has been abated by the date of a finding of responsibility therefor." Sub-section (A)(3): "In any case involving a civil code infraction relating to the occupancy or use of land, any monetary civil sanction imposed pursuant to this section upon a defendant who holds an ownership interest in the land shall be recordable as a lien upon the land and shall run with the land." Chapter 50 carries the tag "Penalty, see Sec. 10.99" at Secs. 50.03, 50.04, 50.05 and 50.21, so this is the sanction behind the solid waste rules. Source
• The town's own page gives the set-out time and sends self-haulers to Safford, but withholds the policy document. Under "Trash Pickup" the Town of Thatcher states: "Trash pick up times my vary from time to time do to unforeseen circumstances. In order to avoid trash cans being skipped or uncollected we recommend that residents put their cans out the previous night or before 4:00 a.m. on your scheduled pick up days." The page offers three links beside that text - "View Town of Thatcher Garbage and Sewer policies", "Pickup Routes" and "Additional information about the Landfill" - and the landfill link points off-site to the City of Safford's landfill page, which is the disposal site Thatcher residents are directed to. Utility accounts are opened at Town Hall, 3700 W Main St, with "a $100 deposit and a $10 connect fee" and a completed application with photo ID; the office runs a drive-thru window "7:00am to 6:00pm" and a drop box. Public Works, including the sanitation department, operates from "The Thatcher Town Shop ... located at 880 S. Reay Ln." The town publishes no bulky-item page, no bulk calendar and no mention of mattresses anywhere on its website. Source Not confirmed: The "Garbage" policy document linked from this page is served as a forced download that the browser would not render, so any rule in it beyond what the town code already states could not be read. Not confirmed: The town publishes no garbage rate: the monthly container charge and the landfill minimum passed on for a truck load are both left to council resolution and neither is on the site.

• 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