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

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.

• Farmington City runs no bulky-item collection, and its hauler is not the one neighboring towns use: the city's Garbage page tells residents to "contact Republic Services (formerly known as Robinson Waste): 801-825-3800" for a missed pickup. Collection is cart-only, and the Garbage Can Guidelines open with the warning that "Robinson may refuse to collect garbage if these guidelines aren't followed." Two of those guidelines rule out bedding: "Do not place the following items in your trash container: hot ashes or coals, large quantities of dirt, sod, rocks or concrete, flammable materials, large bulky items, construction, remodeling, or demolition debris," and "Do not place an item of length greater than four feet in the container." A twin mattress is 75 inches and a queen 80, so no standard mattress fits either rule. Containers go to the curb by 6 a.m. on collection day and off the street by the end of the day, four feet apart, clear of parked vehicles and the mailbox, and not on top of the curb. Extra can delivery and extra can pickup are $25 per occurrence each, a lost container costs $110, and there is no fee to have a can fixed or replaced or to swap an extra garbage can for a green waste can. Green waste recycling is $9.70 per month and runs from the first full week of April through the last full week of November, with the containers usable for regular household refuse from December through March. Recyclables go to the Davis Material Recovery and Transfer Facility, and green waste to Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District, which serves most of Davis and Morgan counties. Source Not confirmed: The monthly garbage rate is on the city's utility page, which the Garbage page links but does not quote, so no figure for collection itself is established here.
• Farmington's only citywide clean-up collection takes yard debris and nothing else, so a resident who sees "Spring Cleanup" on the city calendar and sets out a mattress will be left with it. The city's Spring Cleanup page runs the program "April 6th through April 17th" and states the first rule plainly: "Residential limbs and branches only: Limb and branch max. size is 8" in diameter and no longer than 8 feet in length." One pile per residence is collected, 8 feet long by 4 feet wide by 4 feet high, with limbs stacked in the same direction to fit more in; material must be at the curb line before collection begins on the first day because "Collection trucks will only drive by your home once"; and "No root balls or stumps will be picked up." Household furniture and bedding fall outside the program entirely — it is a limb run, not a bulky-waste run. Source Not confirmed: The page gives the April 6 through April 17 dates without a year, so the current year's dates should be checked against the city calendar.
• Farmington City Code Title 7, Chapter 3 excludes a mattress from city collection by definition rather than by a posted list, which is the cleanest statement of the rule in Davis County. Section 7-3-010 defines "GARBAGE" as "residential solid waste" meaning "all wastes and other objects or substances ordinarily or usually discharged by persons at private residence(s), except nonprocessible waste." It then defines "BULKY WASTES" as "Wastes that are not capable of being stored in the approved garbage containers and cannot be picked up by normally used collection vehicles, including items such as appliances, furniture, large tree branches, lawn sod and trees, etc." — furniture named outright — and closes the definition of nonprocessible waste with "Nonprocessible waste shall include all of the foregoing and bulky wastes." The same list caps size at "Any item exceeding two feet by two feet by five feet (2'x2'x5') in dimensions," which a 60-by-80-inch queen exceeds on two sides. So furniture and bedding are not "garbage" the city collects, and nothing in the chapter creates a separate bulky route. The definitions date from Ordinance 2004-56, adopted October 6, 2004. Source
• Farmington's curb rules and its dumping penalty sit in the same chapter. Code section 7-3-070(C) provides that "garbage and refuse must not be set out upon the street for collection prior to the evening of the day before collection and must be set out prior to six o'clock (6:00) A.M. on the day of collection," and 7-3-070(D) requires every emptied container to come off the street "the same day they are emptied." Section 7-3-070(E) offers help the city rarely advertises: "Those physically unable to wheel approved garbage containers to curbside may contact the city to arrange for pick up assistance." Section 7-3-090 makes it unlawful "to place, deposit or dump garbage, ashes, commercial solid waste, rubbish, trash, paper boxes, cartons, manure or night soil, or any other refuse, upon any lot within the city, whether such lot is occupied or vacant," and expressly reaches the owner, tenant, occupant or lessor of that lot. Section 7-3-100 requires that "all garbage generated with the city shall be delivered to the Davis County solid waste management and energy recovery special service district or to NARD." Section 7-3-120 sets the price of breaking any of this: "Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor." Source Not confirmed: No source confirms a local reuse outlet in Farmington with a published mattress policy.

• Residential form displays $18 per mattress or box spring, versus $20 on local-drop-off page. It allows exact-change cash during business hours but also says all payments must be online. Receiving instructions name the fenced area behind door 2; no form submitted. Source
• Sandy at 8813 S 700 W uses north public entrance, Mon-Sat 7am-5pm. Since July 1 2026 every mattress/box spring costs $15 in addition to disposal. Commercial vehicles require authorization, account and RFID; maximum combined length 46 feet. Card/account only and full tarp/security required. Source
• Shared FAQ still says first three mattress pieces included in base fee. Current branch pages explicitly limit that allowance to South Jordan landfill and charge every piece at Sandy from July 1 2026. Source
• Recycle IT LLC homepage lists 3528 W 500 S Suite 5, Salt Lake City UT 84104 and 801-630-2020. Wasatch referral describes a Layton facility. Source
• No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on Utah DEQ pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source
• Utah DEQ points residents to the Utah Recycling & Waste Facility Map at recycle.utah.gov (mobile ArcGIS version also linked). Source