How to get rid of a mattress in Northglenn, 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.

• Northglenn's trash rules are in its ordinance rather than on a service page, and they are unusually specific about timing. Article 16-7 of the Municipal Code makes the City's own residential collection compulsory: "Residential service to all eligible residences as provided by this ordinance shall be mandatory" (Section 16-7-7(a)), with suspension available on request for 30 to 90 days. Containers must be out "not later than 7:00 o'clock a.m. on the day scheduled for collection" and "shall not be placed for collection prior to 5:00 o'clock p.m. the day before collection" (Section 16-7-9(a)(2)-(3)), and must be taken back in "no later than 7:00 o'clock a.m. on the day following scheduled trash collection" (Section 16-7-9(a)(5)) - so the lawful window for a set-out is about fourteen hours either side of the route. On bulky material, the Director may authorize special pickups of furniture, appliances and junk at their discretion (Section 16-7-5(a)), with one major appliance of each type a year at no charge and $65 for further items (Section 16-7-20). Dumping in someone else's container is separately unlawful: "It shall be unlawful for any person to place or dump residential or commercial trash ... in any container ... which such person does not own or have the legal right to possess" without written permission (Section 16-7-10(b)). Violations of Article 16-7 are "punishable as provided in Section 1-1-10(a)(2)" of the Code (Section 16-7-15). Source Not confirmed: Section 1-1-10(a)(2) sets the penalty but its amount is not stated in Article 16-7 and that section was not read. Not confirmed: The article's bulky-item wording covers furniture, appliances and junk; it does not name mattresses or box springs, and the per-piece mattress charges appear only on the City's special pickup service page. Not confirmed: The article does not address apartment or HOA set-out restrictions.

• 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