How to get rid of a mattress in Federal Heights, 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: Federal Heights runs an annual Large Item Clean-Up, and it excludes mattresses by name - which makes the city's one free bulky collection useless for exactly the item people most want gone. The page opens the "Non-Eligible Items" list with "Mattresses", ahead of household trash, tires, freon appliances, microwaves, electronics, concrete, brick, rock, asphalt, 55-gallon drums, hazardous chemicals, oil, antifreeze, automotive fluids, paint, batteries, propane, flammable fluids, junk cars, motorcycles and boats. What is eligible is "Appliances that do not contain freon, Furniture, Doors, Cabinets, Lumber with nails removed, Bagged or Boxed Grass, weeds, brush & bundled tree branches - 4 foot maximum in length, Bicycles with tires removed, Carpeting, padding and similar household bulk items." The 2026 event ran "during the weeks of September 14th and 21st", by neighborhood: Area 1 on September 14–16 (Northborough; Countryside MHP and Denver Cascade MHP; Kimberly Hills MHP and Maura Villa) and Area 2 on September 21–23 (Old Town, Parkside MHP, Homestead Heights, Mobile Landed Estates; Monticello, Lamplighter MHP; Holiday Hills MHP, Hyland Park Heights, Northmoor, Allbrick). It is "offered in all residential and manufactured neighborhoods with the exclusion of apartment, condo, and townhome areas". The set-out rules are strict: "CREWS WILL ONLY MAKE ONE PASS - Bulk items not placed curbside by 7:00 AM on the day your area is scheduled for collection may be subject to non-collection or special collection fees"; items must be curbside "along the front of your property" and "Items placed on or extending onto private property will not be collected"; items "must be bundled or packaged"; anything "too bulky, heavy or too large to be lifted safely by two people will not be collected"; and "NO HOUSEHOLD TRASH - Items that your normal trash provider will accept will not be picked up." Questions go to 303-428-3526. Source Not confirmed: The page gives no alternative route for a mattress in Federal Heights - no city drop-off, no named recycler, no fee-based option. Not confirmed: The "special collection fees" for late set-outs are referred to but no amount is published. Not confirmed: Apartment, condo and townhome residents are excluded from the event and the page does not say what they should do instead.
• Federal Heights has no municipal trash utility behind that clean-up event. The City's Public Works page lists the department's responsibilities as "maintenance of the City roads, buildings, signs, wet utilities and parks. This includes mowing, tree trimming, building maintenance, street sweeping, snow removal and regular maintenance of water, sewer and storm water systems." Household refuse collection, recycling collection and sanitation appear nowhere in that list, and the City publishes no trash rates, no collection calendar and no cart program; the Large Item Clean-Up is run by "The City of Federal Heights and its contractors" as a once-a-year event rather than as part of a standing city service. Source Not confirmed: The City does not publish a page stating in terms that residents must arrange their own hauler, nor a list of licensed haulers, so how a Federal Heights household is expected to obtain weekly collection is not established from a City source. Not confirmed: Whether Federal Heights licenses solid waste haulers at all, and on what conditions, is not established. Not confirmed: No set-out window, container storage rule or illegal dumping penalty was found published on the City site.

• 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