How to get rid of a mattress in Aspen, CO.

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: The City of Aspen does not collect anybody's trash. Its Waste Haulers page states that "Commercial and residential locations are maintained by private waste haulers that offer various services and degrees of pricing", and lists the haulers operating in the City: Aspen Trash, EverGreen ZeroWaste, Mountain Waste and Recycling, Valley Waste Solutions, V.I.P. Trash Services LLC, Waste INC. and Waste Management. What the City does instead is regulate them - under the City's recycling ordinance "every hauler must include charges for recycling within trash fees, even if recycling is unutilized". There is therefore no municipal bulky-item or large-item pickup in Aspen and no City fee for one; a mattress collection is a private arrangement with whichever hauler serves the address. City contact for waste questions is waste@aspen.gov or 970-920-5039. Source Not confirmed: The City lists its licensed haulers but publishes no bulky-item or mattress prices for any of them, so what a hauler charges to take a mattress in Aspen is not established.
• Aspen Municipal Code Title 12 confirms the arrangement and sets the rules that bite if a mattress is left at the curb. Section 12.04.070 states that "Every owner or occupant of premises within the City shall provide his or her own means of collection and disposal of ashes, trash and garbage", and 12.04.020 requires everything to be deposited in "Animal-proof, fly-tight covered containers" or an approved dumpster. Section 12.04.060 is the set-out window and it is narrow: "It shall be unlawful for the owner or occupant of any premises located in a Residential Zone District ... to place garbage, trash or ash containers at or near the street or alley adjacent to the premises except between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. of the day for scheduled collection." Under 12.04.100 a violation that the Environmental Health Department or Fire Marshal judges an immediate public health danger, fire hazard or block to emergency access is removed at once with "a minimum fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00)" charged to the premises and the owner or occupant; other violations are tagged and must be corrected within 24 hours. Section 12.04.110 lets the City remove an unlawful accumulation and charge the cost against the property and the owner, collectible in court, assessed against the property and certified to the County Treasurer for the tax roll, or added to the monthly water service fee - and if that remains unpaid, "water service to the premises shall be disconnected". Section 12.06.030(i) permits haulers to set "separate pricing for special collection of bulky items", which is where a mattress falls. The code cross-references Chapter 12.08 Wildlife Protection for container requirements and section 15.04.380 for littering. Source
• The one collection the City of Aspen itself runs is the free Spring Clean-Up, scheduled for May 4-7, 2026 and open to Aspen residents. A resident calls the Street Department at 970-920-5130 by 4 p.m. on Friday, May 1, 2026 to book a curbside pickup; alley pickups are not available, piles must be labeled "City of Aspen Spring Clean-Up", and branches and wood are laid parallel to the street. The page states that "Items must be sorted by type, which includes branches and wood of eight feet or less in length, metals, trash, tires, and leaves in compostable bags", and that "Items not eligible for pick-up include household garbage, construction debris, batteries, paint, oil, refrigerators, hazardous waste, televisions, and any electronics with a memory chip". A separate E-Waste Collection Event runs Saturday, May 16, 2026, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Marolt Housing parking lot. The word mattress does not appear anywhere on the page. Source Not confirmed: The Spring Clean-Up page never names mattresses. It accepts 'trash' but excludes 'household garbage', and gives no guidance on which side of that line a mattress falls, so whether a mattress can be set out for the free May pickup is not established.
• Not an option: The reuse shop at the landfill gate will not take a mattress. Motherlode Mercantile, Pitkin County's own resale store at 32046 Jack Gredig Lane, Aspen, CO 81611, lists what it accepts - "FURNITURE", "ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE", "GAMES", "HOME GOODS", "GARDEN SUPPLIES", "SPORTS EQUIPMENT", "CERAMIC DISHWARE" and "PLASTIC TOYS" - and then lists what it does not, naming "MATTRESSES" alongside "TEXTILES + CLOTHES", "BOOKS + MAGAZINES", "PAINTS", "LARGE APPLIANCES" and "TV's". It is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 7:30am-4:00pm and Saturday 7:30am-11:30am, closed Wednesdays and Sundays. Since the store is on the same site as the scale, a resident arriving with a mattress and a load of household goods can donate the rest and pay the $35 mattress fee for the mattress in the same visit. Source

• Resources page still labels its rate link 2023 Gate Rate Sheet, while the separate Disposal Rates page links a PDF explicitly titled 2026. Preserve the link-label discrepancy rather than interpreting every resource as current. Source
• CDPHE list of residential materials prohibited from Colorado solid waste sites: lead-acid batteries, free liquids, used oil, waste tires, electronic devices/computers. Mattresses not listed. No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on CDPHE pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source