How to get rid of a mattress in Mesquite, NV.

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.

• Mesquite backs its disposal rules with a criminal penalty rather than a civil fine, which is unusual and worth a reader knowing before they leave a mattress anywhere but the landfill. City Code section 4-2-9(A) makes it "unlawful for any person to throw or deposit, or cause to be thrown or deposited, in any street, alley, gutter or highway within the limits of the city, any dirt, rubbish, garbage or dead animal", and extends that to the property or premises of another and to letting material accumulate so that "the same may be blown or carried over to public or other private property by any means whatsoever". Section 4-2-9(A)(2) separately makes it unlawful "to throw, or cause to be thrown or deposited, upon the premises, or in the garbage receptacle of another, any garbage, rubbish, dirt or dead animal" - so using a neighbor's or a business's dumpster is its own offense. Kindling or maintaining a fire "for the purpose of burning garbage, rubbish, dead animals, or dirt" without a written permit from the fire department is prohibited by 4-2-9(B). The penalty, section 4-2-12: "Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction of a first offense, sentenced to pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), and/or by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months in the city jail. Any person found guilty of a second offense shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and/or by imprisonment of not more than six (6) months in the city jail. Every day that the violation occurs, exists or is allowed to exist or continue shall constitute a separate offense." Section 4-2-11 keeps the city's other remedies available alongside it - injunction, abatement of nuisances, an action for damages and prosecution under state law - and 4-2-10 makes a violation of the notices posted at the disposal site itself a violation of the chapter, punishable the same way. Source
• What Mesquite's free self-haul rule actually covers turns on one definition, and the definition is wide. City Code section 4-2-1, defining the terms used throughout the chapter on garbage, refuse and weeds: "RUBBISH: Old tin and iron cans and containers, old wood and paper boxes, scrap iron, wire, rope, cordage, bottles, bags and bagging, rubber and rubber tires, scrap automobile bodies and parts thereof, paper, wood shavings, and all used or castoff articles of material, including scrap lumber, plaster, concrete, brick, cement, glass, other building materials, branches, leaves and yard trimmings." The catch-all phrase is "all used or castoff articles of material", and it is that phrase, not any mattress line, that a Mesquite household relies on when it takes a bed to the city landfill under the free-dumping rule in section 4-2-4(B). The same section defines "COMPACTED" as "Reduced in volume but not weight by mechanical equipment", which is what triggers the triple rate at the gate, and defines "SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCE" as a dwelling "limited to single-family dwellings, mobile homes, and other dwellings participating in the ninety (90) gallon automated system" - the same automated-cart test that decides who dumps free. "GARBAGE" is defined narrowly by contrast, as kitchen, market and store matter, so a mattress is not garbage under this code; it is "rubbish" or it is nothing. Source Not confirmed: The definition's catch-all phrase "all used or castoff articles of material" is the only thing bringing a mattress inside the chapter, and no section of the code names a mattress, bedding or furniture anywhere.

• Operator mixed-load FAQ applies the costliest included waste category and illustrates household waste mixed with lumber at $7.50/cubic yard. This differs in unit from mattress item rows; current county rate revision is not rendered. Source
• C&S contact page lists Nye landfill ZIP 89041 and phone 775-727-5777; network/branch footer gives ZIP 89060, while branch narrative provides 775-727-7884. County confirms street address but gives no ZIP. Both contacts may serve different roles. Source
• Storey table gives Lockwood Monday-Saturday 8am-4:30pm without a lunch closure. Existing operator observation w3-nw-reno-004 includes Saturday 12:30-1 closure; existing Sparks observation w6-w-sparks-001 instead reports weekday opening at 7am. Those older records are reused and retained. Source
• NDEP states that Nevada does not currently have a Mattress Recycling Council program. The Nevada Recycles resources page lists Earth911 and KTMB (Washoe County) guides and the NDEP Recycling Hotline 1-800-597-5865 for county recycling services. No statewide mattress landfill ban found. Source