How to get rid of a mattress in Erie, 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.

• Question 1 answered "no" for Erie as well: the Town contracts no hauler and runs no bulky-item collection. Its Recycling and Waste Disposal page instead lists the private companies an Erie household may sign up with — Wompost, One Way, Inc., Republic Services, Waste Connections, Western Disposal Services and WM — so curbside terms differ house by house depending on which company the resident pays. The page publishes no bulky-item or mattress rate for any of them. For a mattress specifically the Town's advice is to "Schedule mattress pick up with A Bedder World" through that company's website, and it points residents to the Boulder County Recycling Center at 720.564.2220 and to an A-Z Recycling Guide for item-by-item answers. The Town does operate its own Erie Recycling Center for yard waste and recyclables. Source Not confirmed: No hauler's bulky-item or mattress rate is published on any Town page, and the Town states no contract terms or minimum service standards for the six companies it lists.
• Not an option: An explicit, named refusal at the Town's own facility, which saves a wasted trip: the Erie Recycling Center, 1000 Briggs Street, is open 8 a.m.-4 p.m. seven days a week, holiday and weather permitting, and "Dropping off accepted materials at the Recycling Center is free of charge to Erie residents," residency being decided by a simple test — "If you pay your water bill to the Town of Erie, you are a resident." It takes single-stream recycling, plastics #1-7, paper, glass, metal cans, broken-down cardboard, yard waste, food scraps and gently used clothing and shoes in reusable condition. But its own policy states: "We do not accept furniture, mattresses, rugs, carpet, or household appliances." A mattress cannot go to Erie's free residents' drop-off at any price. Source
• The Town's Clean-Up Days FAQ gives Erie's answer to "can I get rid of a mattress" in two parts: "Yes. See more about what is accepted on the Front Range Landfill website. Mattresses are also accepted as part of the Clean-Up Day events in the fall and spring for a small fee." Front Range Landfill is inside Erie's own boundary at 1830 Weld County Road 5, and is already carried on this page as the county-level drop-off with its published mattress rate, so the FAQ confirms it is the Town's own recommended self-haul route rather than adding a new site. The same FAQ sends Erie residents' paint to the Boulder County Hazardous Materials Management Facility in Boulder, charges a flat $30 per TV payable in cash at drop-off, notes TVs are taken at both the spring and autumn events, and limits shredding, which runs at the autumn event only, to two banker-box loads per resident. Source Not confirmed: The FAQ says "a small fee" for mattresses at clean-up events rather than repeating the $30 rate card, and gives no residency or payment rules.

• 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