How to get rid of a mattress in Lamar, 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.

• Lamar runs its own sanitation department but publishes no bulky-item or mattress collection. The Sanitation page states the department "collects refuse from over 3,900 residential and commercial customers per week with two automated side load refuse trucks" - automated side-load trucks take only what fits in the tub, and nothing on the page offers a large-item run. The published 2025 rates are, inside city limits, $20.50 for the first 65-95 gallon tub and $15.00 for additional tubs; outside city limits, $41.00 and $30.00; commercial 300-gallon tubs $36.00 and $27.00 inside, $72.00 and $54.00 outside; disconnect $15.00 and re-connect $21.00. The only extra collection offered is "Extra Pickup Residential and Commercial - Full Price", that is, another month's tub charge, not a bulky-item visit. Roll-offs run from a $210.00 monthly minimum for a 10-yard to $600.00 for a 40-yard plus a $26.00 delivery and relocation fee. The City's answer for a mattress is therefore self-haul to its own landfill, whose address the same page gives as "29141 CR 14, Lamar, CO 81052". Source
• Two local rules apply to a Lamar resident hauling a mattress, and both are published by the City rather than by a hauler. The load must be covered: "Uncovered loads will be charged $10.00" on Free Dump Weekends, and the landfill page states independently that "All loads must be tarped or a $10.00 fine will be assessed". Access is restricted to city residents and sanitation customers on proof - "Must provide valid ID with address within City limits or City of Lamar utility bill" - so someone living just outside the city on County Road HH or in the Meadows pays the standard weight rate instead. Source Not confirmed: Lamar's illegal-dumping and nuisance ordinance text and its penalties could not be read: the municipal code is on library.municode.com, which needs a browser that was not available in this pass.

• 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