How to get rid of a mattress in Pueblo, 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.

• Current terms of the City of Pueblo's large-item voucher, with the annual cap and the revised gate hours that earlier records did not carry. The city page states: City of Pueblo residents ONLY; no vouchers sold on-site; "'Large Item' vouchers may be purchased at 211 E. 'D' Street"; "Must show a valid ID, or recent utility bill with City address"; "Voucher cost is $10.00 per item"; and a "Limit of 8 vouchers per property address per year". Large items accepted are listed as "Mattress or Box Spring", sofa or couch or loveseat (sectionals require 2 vouchers), chair including recliner, washer, dryer, stove, refrigerator or freezer, and table or dresser, with "NO ELECTRONICS (computers, televisions, etc.)". Voucher sales for freezers and refrigerators are temporarily suspended. Drop-off is at 1595 Stockyard Rd, open Thursday and Friday 1:00pm-6:00pm (gates close 5:45pm) and Saturday and Sunday 10:00am-2:00pm (gates close 1:45pm), with possible closure when high winds are forecast. Tire vouchers are $1.00 per tire with a limit of 9 passenger tires per property address per year. Source Not confirmed: The large-item page says vouchers are bought at 211 E. 'D' Street, while the RecycleWorks page also offers a 24/7 online purchase portal with an unspecified additional fee; which routes are currently open is not reconciled between the two city pages. Not confirmed: The city does not say whether a mattress dropped at Stockyard Rd is recycled or landfilled. Not confirmed: No rule is published on wet, soiled or bedbug-infested mattresses, and none on wrapping.
• Pueblo runs no residential trash collection and no curbside bulky-item pickup; the voucher drop-off is the whole of the city's answer. The city's own site map lists the Public Works Department's divisions as Engineering, Public Buildings Maintenance, Street Maintenance, Traffic Maintenance and Transportation, plus Stormwater Utility, Pueblo RecycleWorks, Large Item and Tire Drop-Off, Street Sweeping and permit pages. No refuse, garbage, sanitation, solid waste collection, curbside or bulky-item collection page appears anywhere on the city site, and the city operates no hauler. Pueblo households subscribe individually to a private hauler for weekly trash. Source Not confirmed: The finding is an absence across the city's own complete site map rather than a statement by the city that it provides no collection. Not confirmed: A City of Pueblo spring clean-up 'Discount Days' partnership with Waste Connections in May 2026, at which residents were told to bring mattresses, was announced in a city news item that now returns 404, so its terms and whether it recurs cannot be established.
• Pueblo publishes the local dumping rule almost nobody else answers, and it is strict. The City's own Code Compliance brochure quotes Pueblo Municipal Code Sec. 7-3-6, Disposal at designated facilities: "All rubbish, trash, litter and garbage shall be disposed of only by delivery to duly designated solid waste disposal facilities or qualified recycling facilities. It shall be unlawful and a municipal offense for any person to dump, deliver or dispose of rubbish, trash, litter and garbage anywhere within the City except at a duly designated solid waste disposal facility or qualified recycling facilities." Where ownership can be ascertained from the contents, "the owner so ascertained may be prosecuted". It is also a municipal offense to put waste generated off-site into a public litter container, or into a container maintained by another person without permission — which rules out dropping a mattress beside someone else's dumpster. Sec. 7-3-5 makes it unlawful for an owner or occupier to fail or refuse to remove litter, trash, trash and debris from their property. The brochure states that persons convicted of violating any provision of the Pueblo Municipal Code "are subject to fines of up to one thousand dollars ($1,000) and/or one (1) year imprisonment for each day the violation continues". Enforcement is by the Police Department Code Compliance Unit, 200 S. Main Street, 719-553-2592. Source Not confirmed: The brochure is marked "Revised: January 2014", so the section numbering and the penalty ceiling may have been amended since and were not re-checked against the current codified ordinance. Not confirmed: No set-out window, apartment or HOA rule and no wrapping requirement for mattresses is published by the city.
• The City of Pueblo runs a twice-a-year free dump day that takes mattresses, which the city's voucher program does not replace and which earlier records for Pueblo do not carry. The city calendar entry for the May 31, 2025 event reads: "This spring's Team Up to Clean Up event will be held on Saturday, May 31 from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. This is for City of Pueblo residents, please bring an I.D. or bill from your residential address to verify. This year there are two MAIN locations with the Colorado State Fairgrounds and Colorado State University Pueblo. Bring your household trash, mattresses, large items and furniture. No hazardous waste, no appliances, no paint, no construction items and no electronics. No oversized truck loads or moving trucks allowed. A third location at Pueblo Recycleworks located at 1595 Stockyard Rd. will be available for green waste (i.e. branches) that is unbagged." The 2024 entry for the same program states the terms in almost identical words: "Team Up to Clean Up offers City of Pueblo resident a NO COST and convenient opportunity to dispose of household items and yard debris. This is limited to Pueblo City residents only. Accepted items include furniture, mattresses and excess carpet. Yard waste and up to 5 tires accepted (without rim)." The contact number for the program is 719-553-2295, the same Public Works number that sells the large-item vouchers. For a city household this is the only published way to get rid of a mattress in Pueblo at no cost at all, as against the $10 voucher the rest of the year. Source Not confirmed: Only the residency check, not a per-household load limit, is stated on these two entries; the city has described a one-pickup-truckload limit elsewhere, which was not verified on a city page in this pass. Not confirmed: Whether mattresses collected at the event are recycled or landfilled is not stated.
• The Team Up to Clean Up free dump day is current, not historic. The City of Pueblo's calendar entry for Saturday, May 2, 2026, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM, cost "FREE", contact 719-553-2295, reads: "Join the City of Pueblo for the twice-annual Team Up to Clean Up event on Saturday, May 2, 2026 at three convenient locations. Bring your household trash, large items, tires (off the rim) and waste to CSU Pueblo or the Colorado State Fairgrounds. Bring your green waste (i.e. leaves, yard debris, etc.) to RecycleWorks." The listed locations are the "CSU Pueblo ThunderBowl Parking Lot (household waste & large items)", the "Colorado State Fairgrounds (household waste & large items)" and "RecycleWorks for green waste". The word "twice-annual" on the city's own listing establishes that a second event falls in the autumn; the spring 2026 event has already passed as at the date of this review. Source Not confirmed: The date of the autumn 2026 Team Up to Clean Up event was not established from a City of Pueblo page; only the spring date is published on the entries read. Not confirmed: This 2026 entry does not itself repeat the mattress acceptance or the residency check; those come from the 2024 and 2025 entries for the same program.
• Not an option: Goodwill of Colorado, which operates the Goodwill stores serving Pueblo, lists "Mattresses, box springs, bed pillows, and water bed components" among items it cannot accept; furniture is taken only when not broken, stained or worn. Source

• 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