How to get rid of a mattress in Yuma, 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: There is no mattress recycler a Yuma household can use. The one operator that advertises mattress recycling in Yuma, LRP Recycling, is commercial-only and fails the test for listing: its Arizona page offers "Nationwide Commercial Recycling and Installation for Mattresses, Furniture and Electronics" to "Hotels and Resorts", "Colleges and Universities", "Military Bases" and "Municipalities and Housing Authorities", with a service list naming "Phoenix, Tucson, Mesa, Chandler, Scottsdale, Glendale, Gilbert, Tempe, Flagstaff, Yuma, and surrounding communities". It publishes no Arizona address — the only address on the page is a Massachusetts headquarters, "84 October Hill Road Suite 1, Holliston, MA 01746" — no residential service, and no price, only an invitation to call for an estimate. A Yuma household therefore has no mattress-specific recycling route: the city's own pages offer only the annual cleanup, the on-request bulky pickup and the county transfer station, all of which are disposal. Source Not confirmed: Whether LRP would quote a household at all is not stated; the page addresses institutions only, and no inquiry was made.
• Crossroads Mission is the reuse option Yuma residents are most likely to try, and its published donation list stops just short of a mattress. Under furniture and appliances it accepts "Dressers, beds, tables, chairs, couches, end tables, entertainment centers, lamps, Mirrors, wardrobes, benches, bookshelves, refrigerators, microwaves, stoves, washers, dryers, televisions, DVD players, vacuum cleaners, fans, heaters, blenders, mixers, toasters, etc." Under household items and linens it accepts "Bath towels, bed sheets, fitted sheets, pillows, pillowcases, mattress covers, bedspreads and comforters, sleeping bags, blankets, shower and window curtains, mats, rugs, etc." The only occurrence of the word mattress on the page is "mattress covers". The mission takes "Scheduled donations from cities across Arizona, including Yuma, Foothills, Wellton, San Luis, & Somerton", and its 2nd Chance Thrift Store is at 550 West 8th Street, Yuma, Arizona 85364, (928) 726-0491, open 08:00 am - 04:00 pm. Source Not confirmed: "Beds" is listed as accepted furniture but the page never says whether that means a bed frame only or includes the mattress, and mattresses are neither named as accepted nor named as refused — so no mattress policy could be established and the mission is not listed as a mattress option. Not confirmed: No published condition standard, no list of items refused, and no stated fee or minimum for the pickup service.
• Yuma's rules on where a mattress may not go are in Chapter 190 of the city code and they are enforced as a criminal offense. § 190-17 makes it unlawful to "Place or cause to be placed any refuse upon any public or private property not owned or under its control"; to "Place or cause to be placed refuse in a container not owned or maintained by him or designated for his use"; to "Remove or pilfer refuse or waste from any container for salvage or scavenger purposes"; and to "Remove, haul or cause to be removed or hauled, any refuse on or along any city right-of-way, street or alley, unless the same is contained in watertight containers so constructed as to prevent any such refuse from falling, leaking or spilling therefrom" — so an uncovered load on the way to the transfer station is itself an offense. § 190-99 sets the consequence: "Unless otherwise specifically provided for in this chapter, any person or corporation who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor, and shall be punished as provided in § 10-99 of this code." The city's own collection guidelines add the everyday rule that matters most: "Other materials, such as building materials, bulk items, appliances, certain yard waste, Christmas trees and recyclable goods, are picked up separately from regular trash and should not be left out on regular trash days." Containers must be at the curb by 6 a.m. on collection day, with handles and wheels facing the house and the container at least 10 feet from any object, and removed "immediately or no later than 6 p.m. on the collection day". Trash is collected Mondays and Tuesdays and recycling Thursdays and Fridays, between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. Source Not confirmed: The dollar range of a class 3 misdemeanor fine is set by § 10-99, which was not read, so no fine amount is recorded. Not confirmed: Nothing in Chapter 190 or the city guidelines requires a mattress to be wrapped or bagged, and nothing addresses apartment, mobile-home park or HOA restrictions on bulky set-out.

• 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