How to get rid of a mattress in Wellington, 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.

• Wellington runs no trash collection and therefore no bulky-item pickup, and the Town says it in a single sentence on its Public Works page: "The Town of Wellington does not offer trash and recycling collection, please visit the Utility Providers page for more information on scheduling trash service for your home or business." The same page sets out what Public Works does do - "operating, maintaining, and improving all town infrastructure such as streets, buildings, water sewer and drainage facilities", capital projects and general engineering - and waste collection is not among it. The Town's general line is (970) 568-3381 ext. 1. There is no Town set-out day, no free allowance, no large-item request line and no Town-contracted hauler with a mattress fee: Larimer County's own description of the arrangement is a "Pure Open Market", in which each Wellington household chooses and pays its own hauler. The only thing the Town itself puts on for household bulk waste all year is the one-morning Town Clean-Up (see co-m-wel-003). Source
• The Town does name the companies a Wellington household is expected to call, which is the practical answer to "who takes it away here". The Utilities & Trash page is a table of providers by utility type, and under "Trash Disposal" it lists three, with numbers: "Dumpster Diverz, 970-888-7274", "Republic Services, 970-484-5556" and "Waste Management, 970-482-6319". Water, wastewater and stormwater are the only utilities the Town itself supplies - "Town of Wellington Municipal Utilities, 970-568-3381 Opt. 2" - with electricity from Poudre Valley REA or Xcel Energy and natural gas from Black Hills Energy. The Town publishes no rates, no service terms and no bulky-item or mattress policy for any of the three haulers, and does not say that the list is exhaustive or that the Town has vetted them. That table is the whole of the Town's published waste guidance: it names no recycler, no drop-off site, no mattress program and no charity. Source
• Wellington's only Town-run disposal event is a two-hour Saturday morning with borrowed dumpsters, and its published exclusion list is the reason a mattress is unlikely to get in. The Town calendar entry for 2026 reads: "This year's Town Clean-Up - cosponsored by Dumpster Diverz - is slated for 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 20 at the property across from the Eyestone South campus on 6th Street (8487 6th St. for anyone using GPS). Wellington residents can dump up to 3 cubic yards (or one level standard pickup bed) of trash in the dumpsters, as space allows. No electronics, appliances, large furniture, tires, or hazardous materials." The listed cost is "Free for Wellington residents". The 2022 event was run on the same pattern, on "the east side of Sixth Street across from the current Wellington Middle School", with a tighter cap - "Items cannot exceed one cubic yard" - and a comparable exclusion list: "These dumpsters are not for disposal of paint, batteries, tires, appliances, furniture, or hazardous waste items such as pesticides or other chemicals, additionally, no construction site waste," plus "Please do not leave trash on the ground before the dumpsters arrive or after they are removed." Neither notice names a mattress or a box spring in either list, so the Town has not said in terms that a mattress is barred - but it has barred "large furniture" outright, the window is two hours once a year, and the volume cap is three cubic yards. Source Not confirmed: The Town Clean-Up notices neither accept nor refuse mattresses by name; they exclude "large furniture", and the Town publishes no ruling on whether a mattress or box spring counts.
• There is no mattress recycler, take-back or mattress-specific program in Wellington, and the Town itself points to none. The Utilities & Trash page is the only place the Town publishes waste guidance, and it is a provider table naming three trash haulers and nothing else - no recycling center, no Bye Bye Mattress or Mattress Recycling Council site, no retailer take-back and no Town program. Colorado operates no statewide mattress recycling program, so there is no state program standing behind the gap either. The nearest mattress-specific answers are both outside the town limits and already established elsewhere on this site: Spring Back Colorado's northern Colorado drop-off at Eco Thrift, 314 N. Howes Street in Fort Collins, roughly thirteen miles south, and Larimer County's own mattress recycling at the Central Diversion & Transfer Station, 2388 W Trilby Road in Fort Collins, roughly twenty-five miles south, at $40.00 per mattress or box spring on top of the $20.00 car or $37.00 truck entry fee. Nothing in Wellington itself takes a mattress for recycling. Source
• Of the three haulers the Town names, only Dumpster Diverz publishes Wellington-specific residential terms, and even it publishes nothing about mattresses - which is the finding, because it closes off the obvious assumption that the hauler will simply take it. Its Wellington page gives the service area as "Serving Windsor, Fort Collins, Wellington & Northern Colorado" and the prices as "$29/month" for a 64-gallon cart, "$33/month" for a 96-gallon cart and "+$10/month" for the recycling add-on, with "No contracts required! We believe in earning your business every month" and cancellation "anytime with 30 days notice". On scheduling: "Your pickup day is confirmed at signup - most Wellington addresses are Tuesday or Friday", and "If we miss your scheduled pickup, we'll come back the next business day at no charge." The page lists the Wellington neighborhoods served - Buffalo Creek, The Meadows, Sage Meadows, Creekside Village, Fox Chase Estates, Mountain View Ranch, Old Town Wellington, Three Silos, Boxelder, Cottonwood Park, Indian Creek Meadows, Wellington Commons - and county road properties. It publishes no bulky-item allowance, no large-item fee and no mattress policy at any price, so no mattress service is recorded here. This is the same company that co-sponsors the Town Clean-Up. Source Not confirmed: None of the three haulers the Town names - Dumpster Diverz, Republic Services or Waste Management - publishes a bulky-item or mattress price for a Wellington address, so what a Wellington household pays its hauler to take a mattress could not be established from any published page.
• Wellington's code has no set-out window and no container rules of its own - consistent with a town that collects nothing - but it is blunt about leaving a mattress anywhere it can be seen. Sec. 7-2-10: "Whenever there shall be in or upon any real property in the Town any inoperable vehicle, wrecked vehicle, refuse or junk of any type upon any private or public property, except in areas specifically allowed in this Code or otherwise designated by the Town for such purposes, the existence of any such material or items shall constitute a nuisance and shall be in violation of this Article." Sec. 7-2-140: "The storing of junk, trash and refuse on private property within the Town is hereby declared to be a nuisance." Sec. 7-2-160(a) reaches discarded household goods by name: "No person shall permit any use of premises or building exteriors which are deleterious or injurious, noxious or unsightly, which includes, but is not limited to, keeping or depositing on, or scattering over the premises, lumber, junk, trash, debris or abandoned, discarded or unused objects or equipment such as furniture, stoves, refrigerators, freezers, cans or containers," and (b) bars "unsheltered storage of old, unused, stripped and junked machinery, implements or personal property of any kind which is no longer safely usable for the purposes for which it was manufactured, for a period of thirty (30) days or more within the Town." Sec. 7-2-170 makes it unlawful to keep premises so that "The premises are a detriment to public health, safety or general welfare" or "are so defective, unsightly or in such condition of disrepair that they substantially diminish the value of surrounding property". The Code names no set-out time, no bin-screening rule and no mattress-wrapping requirement. Source
• Wellington splits its penalties in two, which is unusual and changes what a dumping violation is worth depending on how it is charged. Sec. 1-4-20(a): "Except as may otherwise be provided herein, any person convicted of a noncriminal violation, as designated in Section 10-1-40(c) of this Code, may be fined by an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00)... In addition, such person shall pay all costs and expenses in the case, including attorney fees." Sec. 1-4-20(b): "Except as may otherwise be provided herein, any person convicted of a criminal violation, as designated in Section 10-1-40(d) of this Code, may be incarcerated for a period not to exceed three hundred sixty-four (364) days or fined by an amount not to exceed two thousand six hundred fifty dollars ($2,650.00), or both." Sub-section (d) adds the multiplier that matters for something left out for weeks: "Where any violation is a continuing offense, each day that the violation continues shall be considered and held to be a separate and distinct offense." Sec. 1-4-10 sets the scope - "It is a violation of this Code for any person to do any act which is forbidden or declared to be unlawful or to fail to do or perform any act required in this Code" - and Sec. 1-4-30 caps a noncriminal fine for a person aged at least ten and under eighteen at "not more than five hundred dollars". 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