How to get rid of a mattress in Skiatook, OK.

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.

• Skiatook's curbside service is a cart service only, and the city code establishes no large-item collection to go with it. Title 9 Chapter 5 of the Skiatook City Code reserves to the city, under section 9-5-3.A, 'the exclusive right and privilege of the collection, removal and disposition of all garbage and trash within the corporate limits', by city employees, by contract or through the Skiatook Public Works Authority. Section 9-5-4.A.1 sets the residential rate inside the city limits at $13.85 a month effective July 1, 2016, after a run of $11.50, $12.50 and $13.50 in the three preceding years, and provides that 'Thereafter, the service charges/fees for all residential refuse service customers ... shall be increased by thirty five cents ($0.35), July 1 in each year beginning on July 1, 2017'; nonresident customers the city chooses to serve paid $17.85 on the same 2016 date and rise on the same escalator. Section 9-5-4.A.2 gives a discount of two dollars a month to residents over sixty-five. Section 9-5-4.A.4 sets the local set-out rule: 'Residential refuse shall be placed at the appropriate approved pick up location prior to six o'clock (6:00) A.M. on the day of scheduled service.' Eight percent of residential refuse charges is transferred to the city for nuisance abatement. The chapter's definitions in 9-5-1 cover "garbage", "rubbish", "rubble" and "trash" and name no bulky or large item; the definition of trash excludes material that, 'because of the nature, size or weight of the material', would handicap or overburden the city's collection. The fourteen sections of the chapter include no bulky-item, large-item or special pickup provision at all, which is why the Refuse Center, not the curb, is the Skiatook answer for a mattress. Source Not confirmed: The code states the July 1, 2016 rate of $13.85 and an annual $0.35 escalator but publishes no current monthly figure, and the city publishes no current refuse rate elsewhere, so today's charge is not confirmed.

• Oklahoma-specific header lists Waste Connections, former Durham/RAD name, 7600 SW 15th Street and residential/MSW access. Later body contains Travis County rates, Cold Canyon California requirements, Anson and other named facilities. Mattress $86.25 appears under Travis County, not securely Oklahoma. Source
• AEL current primary address is 207 N 177th W Ave, Sand Springs OK 74063, phone 918-245-7786; M.e.t. directory lists 212 N. 177th W. Ave. Primary page identifies American Waste Control ownership. Same name and phone support identity candidate, but address discrepancy remains explicit. Source
• No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on Oklahoma DEQ pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source
• Oklahoma DEQ recycling page offers a downloadable Statewide List of Commercial Recyclers, a recycler map, a Community Recycling List (curbside/drop-off) and a mail-in programs list; contact Amanda Scofield, 405-702-5118. Source