How to get rid of a mattress in Cedar City, 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 Cedar City and its neighbors.

• Iron County's second landfill will not take a mattress, and a reader near Parowan needs to know that before driving to the nearer site. The secondary landfill is at 588 S 1200 W, Parowan, UT 84761, about a mile south of Parowan off Old Highway 91, with a phone of 435-477-3377. The county states that the Parowan landfill does not accept business or commercial waste except construction and yard waste, and its Class IV-b clean-load rules accept construction and demolition waste, untreated wood and pallets, crates and asphalt while prohibiting household waste, tires, electronics, furniture, treated lumber, dead animals and friable asbestos. Furniture and household waste being out means a mattress belongs at the main Cedar City landfill, not here. The Parowan site keeps an alternating schedule: it is open on the first and third Saturdays and closed on the second, fourth and fifth, running Wednesday through Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the weeks it is open on Saturday and Tuesday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the weeks it is not, with all customers out by 6:00 p.m. and closures on Sundays and major holidays. Source Not confirmed: The county page does not name mattresses in the Parowan prohibitions directly; it prohibits household waste and furniture, and a mattress being covered by one of those is the reading the page supports but does not state in those words. Not confirmed: The alternating weekly schedule is set out as the county writes it and is easy to misread; the page gives no calendar and no telephone confirmation step, so which days a given week is open is not reliably established from the page alone. Not confirmed: Whether the Parowan site is the 'Northern Iron County Landfill' named in the county's adopted fee schedule is not stated anywhere the county publishes.
• Iron County does run collection, and it tells residents in writing to keep a mattress out of the can. The county's Solid Waste Container Guidelines, written for all sw2 cans including 300 gallon back cans and 30 yard metal containers, state that "This container is for household waste only; Each Household is entitled to 90 gal of space" and that "Large bulky item should not be placed in can like big boxes, mattresses, appliances, tires, paints, oils, and batteries". To be emptied, waste must be inside the container with the lid closed, and containers with waste stacked around or on top with the lid open will not be emptied; all waste must be bagged to prevent blowing and spilling. The guidelines warn of "Fines up to $1000.00 for illegal use of this can" under Iron County Code 8.08.180. The same sheet points residents straight at the alternative: "The Iron County Landfill is located west of Cedar City at 3127 North Iron Springs Rd. there is no charge for Iron County Residents for the disposal of household or yard waste", with charges applying to construction materials, remodeling materials and commercially generated waste. The county's collection is billed by the County Clerk's Office for homes in the unincorporated areas of the county, with cans at the street by 7:00 a.m. on the pickup day; where a pickup day falls on a holiday, unincorporated residents put the can out the following business day unless the holiday schedule says otherwise. So the county collects, it excludes mattresses from the can by name, and it names the free drop-off as the answer instead. Source Not confirmed: The guidelines exclude mattresses from the can but describe no county bulky item pickup, special collection or on-call large item service to replace it, and none was established from any Iron County page. Not confirmed: The guidelines do not say what happens if a mattress is set beside a can rather than in it, beyond the general fine of up to $1,000 for illegal use of the can. Not confirmed: Whether Cedar City or Enoch residents receive the county's collection, or contract their own, is a city question and was not researched here; the county's billing text covers homes in the unincorporated areas.
• Not an option: There is no donation route for a mattress in Iron County. Deseret Industries, the thrift and donation chain with the broadest presence in southern Utah and the one a Cedar City or Enoch household would try first, lists "Beds, mattresses, foundations" on its own donate page among the items it does not accept, together with large appliances, tires, titled campers, automobiles and trailers, pianos and organs, and broken items. The page says the list "is not comprehensive but includes many of the items that DI does not accept". Deseret Industries takes donations only at its drive-thru during donation hours, with no appointment and no pickup service, so there is no collection to arrange either. Against that refusal the county's own free allowance reads better than it otherwise would: Iron County will take the mattress at the Cedar City landfill at no charge within the published 500 lbs per month, which is the nearest thing to a free answer a resident of this county has. Source Not confirmed: No furniture bank, shelter or reuse store in Iron County was established as accepting a used mattress from a primary source; the absence was not confirmed by any organization's own page. Not confirmed: Deseret Industries' donate page carries chain-wide policy and no store addresses, so which Deseret Industries location serves Iron County was not established from a primary source. Not confirmed: No mattress recycler was established anywhere in Iron County, and the county's published recycling covers only metal and green waste.