How to get rid of a mattress in Delta, 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.

• The City of Delta collects its own trash and will not take a mattress at the curb under any circumstances. "The City of Delta currently utilizes three (3) trash trucks to collect refuse from residential and commercial customers within its City limits", and "The city will provide 90-gallon containers to each residential customer", each with "an embossed serial number" assigned to the property address. The published do's are: "Have your container out by 7:00 a.m. on your scheduled collection day"; "Make sure all of your trash fits inside... the container and that the lid is closed"; "Make sure that your container is 3ft from cars, fences, mailboxes, or other impediments"; "Make sure the container is facing with the lid opening side toward the trash truck"; "Make sure all trash is bagged". The don'ts name the problem directly - among prohibited items are "Furniture or items too bulky to fit in the container", along with concrete, steel, bricks or large logs over 2 inches, construction waste too heavy for collection, hazardous materials, hot ashes, medical waste, liquids, batteries, tires and refrigerants. Enforcement is by photograph and return charge: "If the trash truck drivers see any of the above Don'ts, they will take pictures and will be skipped. If we have to come back to dump, an additional dump charge will be added to your bill." The City quotes its own code on bin misuse: "Delta Municipal Code (Section 8.12.090) states that, 'it is unlawful for any person to place trash for collection with or in cans or containers belonging to a City customer unless such person is paying the charges imposed by this Chapter and has the other's permission.'", adding that "A person can be issued a citation by the Delta Municipal Court. If found guilty of the charge, you could be subject to any fees, fines, or other penalties set forth by the Court." Trash may also be missed because "The landfill has closed due to wind/poor weather." The City refers trash questions to "Title 8 of the City of Delta's Municipal Code" or (970) 874-7913, and the page's only disposal link for anything larger is "LINK TO INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT (LANDFILL) - Adobe Buttes". Recycling is limited: the City takes only clean brown cardboard, dropped off in the fenced area west of the Public Works building at 640 West 4th Street, and points residents to Double J Disposal at 21538 Austin Rd, Austin, CO 81416 for other materials. Source Not confirmed: The page publishes no monthly refuse rate and no charge for a special or large-item collection; no such service is offered or priced anywhere on it. Not confirmed: The "additional dump charge" for a return visit is not quantified.
• Delta's annual Community Clean Up is the one moment the City takes extra household bulk, and it excludes mattresses in capital letters. The City's Community Clean Up page reads: "Community Cleanup will be on 5/19/2022 and 5/20/2022 Thursday & Friday from 8:30 am to 6:30 pm. At 250 Hodgin Place. Please bring your recent water bill for proof of residency. Separate brush/branches from all other items. NO mattresses, NO box springs, NO stumps, NO branches larger than 6 inches, NO E-Waste TVs/Monitors. Anything with Freon in it has to be Evacuated. NO Hazardous Waste (Oil, Paint, etc.)" So even at the one free drop-off the City runs for its own residents, a mattress is turned away, and proof of residency by a recent water bill is required. Source Not confirmed: The page still advertises the May 2022 dates, so the current year's dates are not established; only the standing rules, including the mattress exclusion, can be relied on. Not confirmed: The page does not say whether the event is free or charged.
• Because the City takes no mattress, the answer for a Delta household is the county landfill, and Delta County prices mattresses plainly. Its landfill fee schedule lists "Mattress and box spring: $15 each" at both the Adobe Buttes Landfill and the North Fork Transfer Station, against a "$25 minimum fee" on all Adobe Buttes loads and a "$25 minimum" at North Fork. Adobe Buttes charges "$65 per ton" for general waste, "$80 per ton" for contaminated soil, "$480 per ton" for large tire loads, "$55 per ton" for dead animals and "$100 per ton" for out-of-county waste; North Fork takes household waste at "$25 per cubic yard". On a single mattress, therefore, the $25 minimum load fee is what governs rather than the $15 item rate. Source Not confirmed: The schedule does not say whether the $15 mattress charge is additional to the $25 minimum or absorbed by it. Not confirmed: It publishes no resident versus non-resident rate beyond the out-of-county tonnage rate, and no proof-of-residency rule.
• The nearest facility that will actually take a Delta mattress is out of town. Delta County's landfill page gives the Adobe Buttes Landfill as "12211 Trap Club Road, Eckert, CO 81418", open "Monday through Saturday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.", and the North Fork Transfer Station as "36577 K 50 Road, Hotchkiss, CO 81419", open "Tuesday through Saturday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m." Adobe Buttes accepts waste "from Delta County residents and businesses", and "Delta County reserves the right to refuse waste originating outside the County." Mattresses are named in what Adobe Buttes takes: "Mattresses and box springs, subject to applicable fees." No equivalent mattress statement appears for the North Fork Transfer Station on this page. The county advises calling ahead before transporting an unusual, oversized or potentially restricted item. Source Not confirmed: The page sets out no proof-of-residency procedure at the gate. Not confirmed: It does not state whether a mattress taken to Adobe Buttes is landfilled or recovered; no mattress recycling is claimed anywhere in Delta County. Not confirmed: The page's mattress statement covers Adobe Buttes only, so whether North Fork will physically accept one is unconfirmed despite its fee schedule listing a price.
• The City of Delta repeats the bulky-item exclusion on its second trash page, which is worth recording because it is the version a resident is most likely to find. "As you may know, the City of Delta offers trash service to residential and commercial customers within city limits. We currently utilize 2 trash trucks to collect refuse throughout the City." The do's repeat the 7:00 am set-out, the closed lid, the three-foot clearance, the lid facing the truck and the requirement that all trash be bagged. The don'ts again include "Furniture or items too bulky to fit in the receptacle", and the page warns that "Noncompliance with the above-listed requirements may result in the skipping of service." Recycling is again limited to clean brown cardboard dropped at 640 West 4th St, with Double J Disposal at 21538 Austin Road, Austin, CO 81416, "Tuesday - Friday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm" named for plastics #1 and #2, paper, paperboard, cardboard, glass bottles and jars, and aluminum and tin. Nothing on either page offers a large-item collection, a special pickup or a mattress option of any kind. Source Not confirmed: The two City pages disagree on the size of the fleet - three trucks on the Refuse page, two here - which is immaterial to disposal but shows the pages are maintained at different times. Not confirmed: Neither page publishes the monthly refuse rate.

• 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