How to get rid of a mattress in Brighton, 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.

• Brighton runs no residential trash collection. The City's own staff report on its solid waste hauler licensing ordinance describes Brighton as operating "an open-market waste collection system, where multiple private haulers provide services independently", and says that this competitive structure "has also resulted in inconsistent service levels, limited recycling access, and inefficiencies such as redundant truck traffic". The ordinance's stated purpose is to "establish regulatory standards for waste haulers operating within the City, improve data collection and transparency", to support waste diversion and expanded recycling access, and to ensure equitable and efficient waste services. So a Brighton household arranges its own hauler and pays that hauler's own bulky rate; there is no city allowance to use up. Source Not confirmed: The licensing ordinance text itself was not reachable, so whether a licensed hauler must offer bulky-item or mattress collection is not established. Not confirmed: The City has separately explored moving to a single contracted hauler; whether that has been adopted, and whether bulk item collection would be included, is not established from a primary City page. Not confirmed: No list of currently licensed Brighton haulers was found on the City site.
• Brighton does run a collection of sorts, but only for a narrow group and only on four days a year. Under the Trash Bash program the City lists a "Pick-up service" "For the elderly or those with special needs" on "Tuesday, April 21", "Wednesday, April 22", "Tuesday, September 15" and "Wednesday, September 16", and says "To request a pick-up, please call 303-655-2087." It is the only city-operated collection of large items in Brighton; everyone else drops off at the wastewater treatment facility on the Friday and Saturday that follow, or pays their own hauler. Source Not confirmed: The accepted-items list including mattresses is stated for the drop-off; the page does not separately confirm that the elderly and special-needs pick-up takes a mattress. Not confirmed: No definition of "elderly" or "special needs" is published, nor any proof requirement or item limit for the pick-up. Not confirmed: No fee or suggested donation is published for the pick-up service. Not confirmed: No booking deadline or set-out instruction is published for the pick-up service.

• 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