How to get rid of a mattress in Alpine, UT.

If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.

Casper

Free

Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. Source

Purple

Free

Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source

Raymour & Flanigan

Free

New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source

Rooms To Go

Free

New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Alpine and its neighbors.

• The South Utah Valley district publishes a mattress rule in prose, and it is the one that tells a reader what a single mattress costs. Under "Furniture, Mattresses, & Household Goods" its index of unwanted items states: "The Transfer Station accepts furniture, mattresses, and household goods. One mattress is included in the minimum dump fee, with an additional fee imposed for each mattress after that. Good condition items can be donated to Deseret Industries, Community Thrift, or Savers." Read with the district's own fee table, that puts one mattress inside the $12.00 in-district or $17.00 out-of-district minimum for a covered load under 500 pounds, with each further mattress at $20.00 per unit. The same index sets the general rule for everything in it — "Unless otherwise noted, the following items are accepted at the current disposal fee. Loads must be covered to avoid additional charges." — and prices the neighboring items a householder clearing a bedroom would bring: fluorescent light bulbs free for the first ten units for residents and $2 each after, household hazardous waste "Accepted for residents only (no businesses). Up to 5 gallons per chemical per day", and refrigerators, freezers, air conditioning units "or any item with Freon" carrying an additional Freon extraction fee. Source Not confirmed: The prose names "an additional fee" for each mattress after the first without stating the amount on this page; the $20.00 figure comes from the district's separate fee table, and the two pages are not cross-referenced. Not confirmed: The district refers mattress donors to Deseret Industries, which publishes "Mattresses", "Beds" and "Foundations" on its own list of donations it cannot accept, so that referral does not hold; whether Community Thrift or Savers takes a mattress was not established from either organization's own page. Not confirmed: The index page does not say whether a box spring counts as a mattress. Not confirmed: No outcome is published: the district does not say whether a mattress is recycled or landfilled.
• Not an option: Utah County's landfill is closed to the people who live above it, which is the single most useful thing to know about the county's disposal layer. The Bayview Landfill at 6800 UT-68, Elberta, UT 84626 is where both of the county's transfer stations send their waste, and its operator's own home page carries the refusal twice: a banner reading "Not Open to the Public" with a "Find Public Facility" link, and the sentence "Bayview Landfill is a commercial facility and is NOT OPEN to the general public." The site is run by the Northern Utah Environmental Resource Agency, which the South Utah Valley Solid Waste District describes this way: "The Bayview Landfill began construction in 1989. In 2016, the Northern Utah Environmental Resource Agency (NUERA) purchased Bayview Landfill, and now we share this resource with three other members (North Pointe Solid Waste Special Service District, Trans-Jordan Cities, and Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District)." Published hours are Monday through Friday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, closed Saturdays, Sundays and federal holidays. The practical consequence for a resident of any Utah County town is that there is no county landfill gate to drive to: the two district transfer stations, Lindon in the north and Dry Creek in Spanish Fork in the south, are the public facilities, and Bayview is the hole they both feed. Source Not confirmed: Nuera publishes no rate schedule at all, so nothing is established about what any waste costs there, and the refusal to accept the public means no resident rate exists to establish. Not confirmed: Nuera does not say whether a mattress arriving from one of its member transfer stations is landfilled or diverted.
• Utah County's own government confirms, in its own words, that the two special-service-district sites are the county's public waste facilities. The Utah County Health Department's household hazardous waste page states: "Household hazardous materials can be disposed of at either county waste station at any time." It then names the two stations as links — "South Utah Valley Solid Waste District" and "North Pointe Solid Waste Special Service District" — and adds: "Many items, such as paint, oil, gasoline, pesticides, and cleaners, can be dropped off for free. Other items, including electronics, general trash, and certain materials, may have a disposal fee. For details or questions, please contact your nearest county waste station." The page is a useful confirmation for a reader in any of the county's towns that both district sites are treated by the county as county-wide facilities rather than closed member clubs, and it is the county's only published waste page: Utah County runs no landfill, no transfer station and no collection route of its own. Source Not confirmed: The health department page covers household hazardous waste only and says nothing about mattresses or bulky items; "general trash" is the nearest it comes, and it does not state a fee. Not confirmed: The page does not distinguish between the two districts' service areas or say which one an unincorporated county resident should use. Not confirmed: Utah County publishes no solid waste section on its main county website, so there is no county fee schedule, no county cleanup calendar and no county bulky program to establish or rule out from a county page.
• Utah County runs no collection program of its own, and its code shows why: the chapter that would create one regulates private hauling instead. Chapter 20, Article 20-1 of the Utah County Code covers definitions, enforcement, complaints, condemnation powers, landfill fees, illegal dumping, burning, receptacles, littering and the removal of refuse, and contains no curbside route, no bulky item pickup, no voucher and no cleanup day. Section 20-1-2 puts hauling under the health department rather than a county works department: "All scavenger works shall be subject to the direction and control of the County Health Department, and the County Health Department shall enforce the provisions of this Chapter in reference to garbage and the collection thereof." Section 20-1-5, "Fees for the use of County landfill areas", provides only that "Fees and charges associated with the use of County landfills shall be adopted by the Board of County Commissioners, and the amount thereof shall be set at the discretion of the County Commissioners" — a standing authority with no landfill left to apply it to, since the county's disposal capacity is run by two special service districts and the Bayview Landfill. Section 20-1-6 makes it unlawful "to dump any refuse, garbage, paper, trash, junk, market waste, night soil, used petroleum products or other hazardous chemical waste on any premises in the County, except in an area designated by the County Health Department", and Section 20-1-9 requires any load of refuse hauled more than five blocks on a public street to be "covered completely with a heavy-duty canvas or other heavy acceptable material at all times". The definition of "Refuse" in 20-1-1 includes "wood furniture" and "bedding" among combustible trash. Source Not confirmed: The chapter sets no penalty amount for illegal dumping under 20-1-6; it declares the act unlawful without publishing a fine, and the general penalty provision is not in this article. Not confirmed: The code does not say which areas the health department has designated for disposal, so the reader cannot tell from the code itself that the two district transfer stations are the designated sites. Not confirmed: The PDF carries ordinance citations as late as Ord. No. 2016-9 but no page-level revision date, so it cannot be confirmed that this is the current text. Not confirmed: The code does not address mattresses by name, and "bedding" appears only inside the definition of refuse, not in any acceptance or set-out rule.
• Not an option: The donation route that Utah County's own waste district recommends does not exist. Deseret Industries, which runs the thrift stores across Utah County that the South Utah Valley Solid Waste District names as the place to take a mattress in good condition, publishes a list of what it will not take, introduced with "Although we accept most donations, there are some items that we are unable to take" and "The following list is not comprehensive but includes many of the items that DI does not accept." The first three entries on that list are "Beds", "Mattresses" and "Foundations". The same list rules out large appliances including stoves, refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, washing machines and dryers; water heaters, air conditioners, trash compactors and ice machines; tires; rear projection televisions and CRT computer monitors; firearms and ammunition; chemicals, flammables, cleaning products and paint; and broken items. Donations are taken at the store only — "Simply pull up to the drive-thru during donation hours, and our employees will be happy to help" — with no appointment, and the page describes no pickup service. For a Utah County reader this closes the largest and nearest charity option in the county: the mattress has to go to one of the two district transfer stations. Source Not confirmed: The refusal is published nationally rather than per store, and no Utah County store page was found that states its own policy, so a local exception cannot be ruled out from a primary source. Not confirmed: The page does not use the words "box spring"; it lists "Foundations", which is the industry term, but the equivalence is not stated. Not confirmed: No Utah County charity that does accept a used mattress was established from any organization's own page; the district's other two referrals, Community Thrift and Savers, publish no acceptance list that was reachable.
• Not an option: The county's other district-run gate is a construction and demolition landfill, and a mattress has no price there. North Pointe's second facility is its Construction & Demolition Landfill at Fairfield, which the district's FAQ addresses as "799 N 18150 W, Fairfield" and which is open Monday through Friday 7:00 am to 4:30 pm. Its published rate page opens with "Prices listed here are for the landfill only" and lists construction and demolition waste at "$9.00 per load" for 500 pounds or less and "$11.00 per ton + state tonnage tax" above that, concrete smaller than 3x3x3 and asphalt at $11.00 per ton plus tax, dirt at $6.00 per ton and mud at $8.00 per ton, construction tires at $35.00 each with bulk loads of five or more at $150.00 per ton, oversized large special handle waste at $150.00 per ton, and a $5.00 weigh fee. Nothing on the Fairfield rate page prices a mattress, household waste or any bulky household item, and the district's own FAQ sends household mattresses to the Lindon transfer station instead. The Fairfield site does take what Lindon will not: "Tires larger than 24 inch rim diameter are not accepted at the Transfer Station", and stumps and logs greater than two feet in diameter and longer than four feet "can be directly hauled to the construction and demolition landfill in Fairfield". Source Not confirmed: The Fairfield page does not say in words that mattresses are refused; it simply prices none, and the household mattress rate sits on the Lindon schedule, so the refusal is read from the absence of a line rather than from a statement. Not confirmed: No Saturday hours are published for Fairfield, and the holiday closures listed in the FAQ are described for the transfer station only. Not confirmed: The page gives the state tonnage tax as $0.22 per ton on the Lindon schedule but does not restate it here with a date or statutory citation.