How to get rid of a mattress in Loveland, 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 Loveland and its neighbors.

• Not an option: Eco-Thrift, a Fort Collins thrift store at 314 N Howes Street that has for years been the third mattress drop-off in Larimer County alongside the county and the City of Loveland, is not currently taking them. Its FAQ answer to "How do I recycle a mattress?" opens with the notice "NOTE: WE HAVE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED MATTRESS RECYCLING. YOU CAN RECYCLE A MATTRESS AT THE LARIMER COUNTY LANDFILL", above unretracted body text that still reads "Eco-Thrift accepts mattresses for recycling between 10am and 5pm Tuesday through Saturdays. There is a $40 per piece fee for any mattress or box spring. We partner with SpringBack Mattress Recycling out of Commerce City. They are able to reclaim up to 90% of each mattress or box spring and hire men coming out of prison or halfway houses", and directs pickup requests to "call SpringBack directly at 720-515-1328". Lower on the same page the store's list of what it recycles for customers gives a different figure again — "Mattresses ($35 base fee per mattress)". Store hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10 AM - 6 PM, closed Sunday and Monday. Until the suspension is lifted this is a wasted trip, and the operator itself points the reader back to the county. Source Not confirmed: The notice carries no date and no expected resumption date. Not confirmed: The same page publishes $40 per piece and a $35 base fee for the same service; neither figure can be relied on if the service resumes.
• Eco-Thrift's donate-and-recycle page, the one a search engine is likeliest to surface, carries no suspension notice at all and still advertises the service as live: "Recycle Your Old Mattress ... we've partnered with Springback Mattress Recycling to help you do just that. We charge a low $40 base fee for each mattress or box spring, and we handle everything from there. Space can be limited, so call ahead if possible. SpringBack also offers a pick-up service if needed and can be coordinated by calling them directly at 720-515-1328." The donation center address is given as 314 N. Howes Street, Fort Collins, phone (970) 484-4224. Read on its own this page would send a Larimer County resident across town with a mattress; it is contradicted by the suspension notice the same operator publishes on its FAQ page, which is why the operator is recorded here as not an option rather than as a $40 drop-off. Source Not confirmed: Neither Eco-Thrift page is dated, so it cannot be established which of the two was published later.
• Not an option: The reuse answer across Larimer County is no, and Goodwill of Colorado — which runs the stores serving Fort Collins, Loveland and Estes Park — is the operator that states it most plainly. Its material-donations policy lists "Mattresses, box springs, bed pillows, and water bed components" among the items it cannot accept, alongside televisions, "Broken, stained or worn furniture", construction materials, automobile parts and tires, water heaters and inoperable appliances. Ordinary furniture in good condition is taken free at any Colorado location — "Goodwill still offers the option of taking your gently-used items to any of our locations throughout Colorado for no charge!" — and home collection is offered only through the paid third party ReSupply. Together with the two Habitat affiliates that cover this county, both of which refuse mattresses and box springs outright in their own published donation guidelines, that leaves no charity drop-off or collection in Larimer County that will take a mattress: every reuse route checked refuses them, and the working answer is the county transfer station, the City of Loveland Recycling Center, or a paid mattress recycler. Source Not confirmed: The policy page is statewide and does not name the individual Larimer County stores it binds. Not confirmed: No furniture bank or shelter serving the whole county was found that publishes a mattress-acceptance policy either way.
• The county's A-Z list of waste materials is the page that tells a resident where an item goes, and its mattress entry routes to exactly one site: "Mattresses" is marked "Recycled" and linked to "Central Diversion and Transfer Station (fees apply)", with the word Recycled linking to the county's gatehouse mattress-recycling sheet. Furniture, by contrast, is routed to "Central Diversion and Transfer Station or North Landfill" — two sites, not one. The A-Z therefore does not offer the North Landfill as a public mattress drop-off even though the fee schedule prices mattresses in the landfill column, and it names no donation or reuse outlet for a mattress at all. Source Not confirmed: The A-Z entry gives no fee figure of its own and does not state whether a box spring is treated the same as a mattress.
• The one county-wide rule that touches a mattress is the licensing of whoever carries it. "All waste haulers (with some exemptions) using the Larimer County Landfill must get an Annual Hauler License" to meet the requirements of the "Larimer County Hauling License Ordinance 1991-1". The license costs $35 per company per year and "All vehicles will need window decals in the driver's side window by January 31st." The county publishes a searchable list of licensed haulers. This is a gate on the operator, not on the householder: nothing in the program obliges a licensed hauler to offer bulky-item or mattress collection, set a price for it, or serve any particular part of the county, and a resident hiring a hauler to take a mattress is buying that hauler's own service on that hauler's terms. Source Not confirmed: The program page does not state the exemptions, and does not require licensed haulers to publish bulky-item or mattress rates.
• A second stale county-published address, on top of the one the City of Fort Collins guide carries. Larimer County's own hours page — the page a resident lands on when searching for landfill hours — still publishes a single address, "5887 S. Taft Hill Road, Fort Collins, CO 80526", and a row labeled "Landfill Disposal, 8 am - 4:30 pm, Monday - Saturday" alongside Electronics Recycling, the Business Office, Residential Recycle Bins, the Hazardous Waste Drop (residential 8am-4:30pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; business Wednesdays by appointment only, (970) 498-5773) and the Garbage Garage Education Center. The Central Diversion & Transfer Station at 2388 W Trilby Road is not named anywhere on the page. Against the county's own disposal page, which states the Transfer Station and North Landfill opened on August 3, 2026 and gives 2388 W Trilby Rd as the disposal address with the Taft Hill entrance retained for household hazardous waste, the hours page would send someone carrying a mattress to a gate that no longer takes general disposal. The holiday closures it lists — New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas — are the county's, and are not contradicted elsewhere. Source Not confirmed: The county has not updated this page since the move, so the hours shown cannot be relied on as the Central Diversion & Transfer Station's hours; those come from the disposal page instead.
• Larimer County runs no collection of any kind, bulky items included, and says so plainly in its own words. Asked whether Republic Services' residential collection forms part of the county's public-private partnership, the Solid Waste Department answers: "No. The hauling/collection and disposal are completely separate processes from one another, and the county is not involved in the hauling/collection operations in Larimer County." It then sets out who does collect, town by town: "Currently, citizens of Larimer County such as those living in the Town of Estes Park and Town of Wellington have the choice to contract their waste hauler of choice in what is known as a 'Pure Open Market'. Citizens of Loveland's trash collection is managed through what is known as a 'Municipal Hauling Utility' where the city owns and operates all their own equipment. The City of Fort Collins has recently initiated a 'contracted hauling system' for all single-family, duplex, and small multifamily homes (with seven or fewer units) in the community." The county's own role is infrastructure: the department "has the full responsibility to design, construct, fund and operate the new solid waste infrastructure facilities" — a new landfill, transfer station, recycling center, compost and food waste facility and a construction and demolition processing facility — and selected Republic Services as its P3 partner for the North Landfill, Central Transfer Station and Materials Recovery Facility. There is therefore no county bulky-item pickup for unincorporated residents, no county mattress collection, and no county program a town could join; a household in unincorporated Larimer buys collection from a hauler of its own choosing or self-hauls. Source Not confirmed: The FAQ is dated February 17, 2023, before the transfer station and North Landfill opened; the county publishes no more recent statement of its collection position, and nothing found on larimer.gov contradicts it. Not confirmed: No county-wide free dump day, amnesty event, clean-up voucher or subsidized mattress program was found on larimer.gov; the county's only free residential program found is household hazardous waste, which excludes mattresses.