How to get rid of a mattress in Rifle, 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.

• Not an option: The City of Rifle runs a city refuse collection system and bills for it on the municipal utility bill; the Sanitation page states that the City "contracts with Mountain Waste & Recycling, a private waste hauler, to manage garbage and recycling for residential customers" (Mountain Waste 970-963-3435; City utility billing 970-665-6445). The Solid Waste Collection page sets the limit that matters for a mattress: collection runs Monday through Thursday, "Allowable solid waste materials are all ordinary household items that are non-hazardous", and everything must fit inside the 64-gallon or 96-gallon cart - items placed on the lid or outside the container are not collected. Carts go at the curb with the arrows pointing outward and at least three feet clear of obstacles. For anything beyond that the page says only that residents can contact the City at 970-665-6445 for extra pickups and that "additional service incurs extra charges". No curbside bulky-item, large-item or furniture collection is offered anywhere on the City's sanitation pages, and neither page mentions mattresses. Holidays observed are New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, with collection pushed to the following day for the rest of that week. Source
• Rifle Municipal Code Chapter 6, Article VII (Refuse Haulers) settles what the City will and will not take. Section 6-7-130(b) states that "Except as permitted through a duly noticed and implemented special service, special pickup or spring cleanup, the following materials will not be accepted for collection: tree limbs or branches; material and debris produced by building construction, remodeling or demolition; toxic refuse; dead animal carcasses; bulk liquids; automobile and truck parts, bodies or chassis; abandoned appliances or furniture; any material which exceeds the capacity of the trash removal equipment" - so a mattress or other furniture is outside ordinary collection and reaches the truck only through a special pickup or the City clean-up. Section 6-7-120(d) adds that "Extra accumulations or nonrefuse items may be collected upon request" but that the City or its contractor "has the authority to refuse to collect extra accumulations of refuse and/or nonrefuse items, or it may require additional charges for such amounts"; 6-7-60(c) leaves "The types and quantities of items that the City shall collect through special services" to the City Manager, and 6-7-50(b) lets the City Manager "determine the costs and charges for special pickup requests by individual customers, and may waive or modify these costs and charges in the event of a City-wide clean-up program". Section 6-7-110(b) is the set-out rule: containers, bags, cans or bundles "shall be so placed no earlier than 4:00 a.m. and no later than 7:00 a.m. on the day of collection" and must be removed from the street the same day. Section 6-7-20 makes it unlawful for anyone other than the resident hauling from their own property with their own equipment, the City, or a PUC-licensed registered refuse hauler to collect or transport refuse within the City. Source Not confirmed: The code leaves the price and the item list for a special pickup entirely to the City Manager, and no written rules or regulations adopted under 6-7-60(c) are published online, so whether a mattress can be booked as a special pickup and what it would cost is not established.
• Appendix A to the Rifle Municipal Code carries the published refuse rates under Section 6-7-60. Residential service is $23.77/month for one 64-gallon container plus a recycling container, $18.00/month for a second 64-gallon container, $25.53/month for one 96-gallon container and $20.00/month for a second; a "64-gallon container additional pick up each time" and a "96-gallon container additional pick up each time" are each $35.00. Commercial and multi-family service starts at $70.00/month for one two-yard container collected once a week, with an additional pick-up at $60.00 each. Lost or stolen container replacement is $50.00 (64-gallon) or $60.00 (96-gallon), a contaminated recycling bin is $12.00 per occurrence, and refuse rates rise 5% each January 1. The schedule contains no line item for a bulky item, furniture, mattress or special pickup: the only published charge for extra collection is the $35.00 additional container pick-up, which services a cart rather than a loose item. Chapter 7 of the same schedule prices a "Dumping on property permit" at $25.00. Source Not confirmed: Appendix A publishes no bulky-item or mattress charge, so the cost of a special pickup under Section 6-7-50(b) remains unpublished.
• The City of Rifle runs a free annual Fall Cleanup in which crews collect piles left at the curb, and it is the one City-run collection that takes more than a cart will hold. It runs in two phases: residents east of Railroad Avenue and Highway 13 place items curbside by Sunday, September 21 for collection September 22-26; residents west of Railroad Avenue and Highway 13, or south of I-70, place items by Sunday, September 28 for collection September 29-October 3. The announcement accepts general household items and yard debris but states "No hazardous materials or electronics (computers, printers, TVs, etc.)"; brush must be "tied and stacked neatly", leaves and small items bagged, metal separated, piles are capped at 5 cubic yards (roughly 8' x 5' x 3.3'), and nothing may be set out more than 72 hours before pickup. The same notice asks residents who see illegal dumping to call non-emergency dispatch at 970-625-8095 with a vehicle description and plate. City Hall is at 202 Railroad Avenue and the cleanup contact is 970-665-6577. Source Not confirmed: The Fall Cleanup notice does not name mattresses either as accepted or excluded; it says only 'general household items', so whether a mattress may be left out in the cleanup is not established from the City's own text.
• Not an option: There is nothing mattress-specific in Rifle or in Garfield County. Colorado has no statewide mattress recycling program, and the nearest public facility - the Garfield County Landfill west of Rifle - prices a mattress or box spring as an individually charged disposal item at $8 each on its 2026 fee schedule. The schedule names the streams the County does divert - recyclable metal, electronic waste, tires, appliances - and mattresses are not among them; no mattress recycler, take-back or Bye Bye Mattress collection site is named by the County or by the City of Rifle anywhere in their published waste pages. A Rifle resident who wants a mattress recycled rather than buried has no local option: the nearest published mattress recycling is up-valley at the Pitkin County Solid Waste Center near Aspen, roughly 90 miles away by road. Source
• Not an option: The nearest Habitat for Humanity ReStore to Rifle is Habitat for Humanity of the Roaring Fork Valley's store at 53 Calaway Court, Glenwood Springs, CO 81601, about 27 miles down the Colorado River valley, open Monday through Saturday 10am-6pm and closed Sunday. It will not take a mattress. The ReStore's donation page lists "Used mattresses" first among the items it does not accept, alongside entertainment centers, large particle board desks, cribs, strollers, high chairs and car seats, printers, faxes and password-protected computers, some pianos, pool tables, exercise equipment, large office furniture and armoires. It does accept furniture, appliances, housewares, rugs, building materials, doors, windows, cabinets, lighting, plumbing fixtures and sporting goods, and it offers a free standard donation pick-up service for ground-level, easily accessible items - but not for a mattress. Driving a mattress to Glenwood Springs to donate it is a wasted trip. 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