How to get rid of a mattress in Littleton, CO.

If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.

Casper

Free

Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. Source

Purple

Free

Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source

Raymour & Flanigan

Free

New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source

Rooms To Go

Free

New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Littleton and its neighbors.

• Arapahoe County runs no trash collection and no bulky-item collection of any kind. Its own Trash and Recycling Resources page opens "Trash and recycling services are provided by private companies in the Arapahoe County area." The only county-contracted residential collection described anywhere on the page is for household chemicals, not furniture: "The Southeast Metro Stormwater Authority (SEMSWA) has a contract with Waste Management for the At Your Door Special Collection service, a Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collection program. This service offers a home collection service for HHW which includes the proper disposal and recycling of leftover household hazardous materials for residents of unincorporated Arapahoe County and the City of Centennial." The eligibility sentence is wider than the contract sentence and is worth quoting in full: "If you live in unincorporated Arapahoe County, Aurora, Centennial, Cherry Hills Village, and Greenwood Village, you can call 1-800-449-7587 and set up an appointment for Waste Management to come pick up automotive products, batteries, garden chemicals, paint products, household chemicals, electronics, mercury containing items, and swimming pool chemicals. The cost to you is $20 (Aurora residents are only $10), and you are welcome to partner with your neighbors to fill up the bag that Waste Management will send to you before the day of the pickup." Mattresses, furniture and bulky goods appear in none of that list, so At Your Door is not a route for a mattress. The page then excludes four of the county's own municipalities from it: "Do you live in Englewood, Littleton, Sheridan, and Columbine Valley? These cities have their own program for household hazardous waste collection, including drop-off events." No county bulky collection, free dump day, amnesty week, voucher or clean-up event is described anywhere on the page. Source
• The operator's own facility record for the site the county refers residents to gives the name as "Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site (DADS) Landfill", the address as 3500 South Gun Club Road, Aurora, CO 80018, and the gate hours as Monday through Friday 6:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., closed Sunday. It accepts non-hazardous waste including construction debris, municipal solid waste, contaminated soils and asbestos, and does not accept hazardous or liquid waste. On extra charges it says only that "Appliances, tires and electronic waste are accepted for an additional charge" — mattresses are not among the named surcharge items and no mattress rate is published. Single-stream recycling at the on-site recycling center is free and separate from disposal. The page describes the facility as serving "communities, businesses and industries serving Denver Metro and surrounding areas", consistent with the county's own residential referral. Source Not confirmed: WM publishes no per-item mattress fee and no household self-haul rate card for DADS. Not confirmed: WM does not state whether mattresses taken at DADS are recycled or buried; the facility is a landfill and the recycling center list does not include them.
• Arapahoe County operates no landfill, transfer station, convenience center or citizen drop-off site of its own; its role is regulatory. The Environmental Health Division's Landfills page says "Landfills are regulated facilities that are permitted and approved for disposal of household, commercial, construction, demolition, and sometimes asbestos contaminated waste" and that "Arapahoe County Public Health's solid waste staff conducts routine inspections at both landfill and biosolids land application sites". It names no landfill of its own, offering instead a Historic Landfills Searchable Map, and sends residents who need a disposal route to the A to Z Recycling Guide. The division is at 6964 S. Lima Street, Centennial, CO 80112, 303-795-4584. There is therefore no county residents' dump day, no county gate, and no county rate card to find. Source
• Spring Back Colorado's own site was reachable on September 24, 2026 and confirms, from the operator rather than from the county's referral, the terms an Arapahoe County resident would face. Drop-off: "4975 Pontiac St, Commerce City, CO. No appointment needed for drop off", full ZIP code 80022, "Monday-Friday 7:30 am – 4:00 pm & Saturday 9:00 am - 1:00 pm", telephone 720.515.1328, a registered 501(c)(3), EIN 46-2979738. Price: "We Charge $40 per individual piece for any size mattresses and box springs (we recycle all mattresses and box springs). King sets have 3 pieces so a full set is $120." Separate published item categories, not additions to the $40: "$50 for bed bug-infested beds or signs of bed bugs (black dots on the bed). All bed bug-infested pieces must be wrapped and sealed in plastic"; "$60 per piece for water beds, air beds, and mechanical beds. (Any bed with wires or hoses)"; "$15 per set for steel bed frames. $30 for steel frame and headboard. These must be disassembled before they are picked up"; "$10 per piece for mattress toppers"; "$120 for oversized chairs (drop off only)". Drop-off carries no residency test, no appointment and no county limit, so it is equally available to every Arapahoe municipality and to the unincorporated county. The operator states the outcome plainly — "we recycle all mattresses and box springs" — which makes it the only genuine recycling route the county's own guide points to. Source
• Not an option: The Good Couch, named on Arapahoe County's furniture referral list, does not take mattresses. Its own donation page is confined to upholstered seating — couches, sectionals, loveseats, living room chairs and multi-piece living room sets — and sets condition terms for those alone: "Non-permanent stains, and some pet hair are acceptable and items can have 1 or 2 minor (smaller than a quarter, or larger if along a seam) rips or tears." Mattresses and box springs are named nowhere as accepted. It also warns that free pickup is not universal even for seating: "If an item is very dated, uncontemporary or won't meet the market standards, we will need to charge a fee to pickup. Most fees range between $50–$150." An Arapahoe County resident ringing the number in the county guide for a mattress will be turned away. Source
• The rules that catch a mattress waiting to go in Arapahoe County are in the Land Development Code, and by its own terms they reach only the unincorporated county. Section 1-4 Applicability and Jurisdiction: "This Land Development Code shall apply to the development and use of all land, buildings, and structures throughout the unincorporated areas of Arapahoe County, including development on parcels of land 35 acres and greater in size." Section 4-1.8.B, Trash, Junk, and Inoperable Vehicles: "No land shall be used as an outdoor storage area for the purpose of collecting, dismantling, storing, or selling of junk, trash, rubbish, refuse of any kind, remnants of wood, metal, or plastic, discarded materials, inoperable vehicles or dismantled machinery, whether or not the same could be put to any reasonable use, unless allowed in the underlying zone district or approved in a PUD which specifically authorizes such use." A discarded mattress left beside the house or in the yard is discarded material under that clause. Section 4-1.8.A.1, on set-out for scheduled residential collection: "No Trash Container/Dumpster used for regularly scheduled trash pick-up from a residence shall be located within the front setback of any residential dwelling for more than a 24 hour period. All Trash Containers/Dumpsters shall be covered at all times." Residential dumpsters for weekly, every other week or monthly removal are prohibited unless no more than one of not more than five cubic yards per unit, not in the public right-of-way, and "located behind the front building line of a residence on days not scheduled for trash pick-up" and screened from the right-of-way and neighbors. A cleanout roll-off is allowed but "must be removed from the site no later than 10 days after construction activity has ceased or kept on site for no more than seven consecutive days for the purpose of moving". The Code's own zoning FAQ defines outdoor storage as "The storage of any material outside of the principal permitted structure on any parcel, which material is either wholly or partially visible". By section 1-4 none of this applies inside an incorporated city or town in the county — Aurora, Centennial, Littleton, Englewood, Greenwood Village and Sheridan among them — each of which enforces its own code. Source Not confirmed: The Land Development Code's enforcement chapter sets no fine schedule for a section 4-1.8 violation; the only monetary penalty located in the Code is the subdivision-sale misdemeanour at section 6-2.1, which is unrelated. Not confirmed: The Code sets no wrapping, bagging or mattress-specific handling requirement; the only bedding-specific rules a county resident faces come from their private hauler.
• Arapahoe County's enforcement of those rules is explicitly unincorporated-only, and the county says so on the page a resident would use to report a dumped mattress. The Zoning Division's reporting page states that a complaint can only be filed where the property lies within Unincorporated Arapahoe County, and that "If the property is located within a city jurisdiction, you will need to contact the appropriate city zoning/code enforcement division." Reports go to 720-874-6711 or through the county's Customer Access portal at https://aca-prod.accela.com/arapahoe, which can also be used to track a case; "If you wish to remain anonymous, you must call in your complaint." The practical effect for this site is that the county's own property-maintenance route is available to a resident of unincorporated Arapahoe County and to nobody living inside one of its incorporated cities or towns. Source Not confirmed: The page does not enumerate which violation types the Zoning Division accepts, so the route for a dumped mattress specifically is inferred from the Land Development Code rather than stated on the reporting page.