How to get rid of a mattress in Hooper, 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.

• Hooper City runs one free dumpster day a year of its own, and it is the only municipal route in town for anything too big for a cart. Hooper City's own flyer for the 2026 event gave the date as 'April 11, 2026', the hours as '8:00 am - 1:00 pm' and the dumpster location as the 'Hooper Civic Center', '5580 West 4600 South'; the city's March 2026 newsletter carried the same event as the 'Annual Spring Cleanup'. The flyer's Acceptable Material list reads 'Household junk and clutter (clothing, toys,, etc. )', 'Household items including appliances and furniture.', 'Yard Waste (Tree limbs, shrubbery, grass clippings, etc.)' and 'Materials like wood, drywall, siding, tile, and carpeting are generally acceptable.', with a note that the building materials may fill only up to a third of the container. The Unacceptable Material list reads 'Pesticides (bug killer solutions)', 'Herbicides (weed killer solutions)', 'Solvents (paint thinner, alcohol, acetone, and similar solutions)', 'Paint', 'Motor Oil', 'Gasoline or Diesel', 'Tires', 'Batteries', 'Fuel tanks (propane, butane, etc.)', 'Rock or Dirt', 'Concrete', 'Asphalt', 'Animal Waste', 'Refrigerators or Freezers', 'Air Conditioners' and 'Metal car parts'; the newsletter's shorter version adds TVs, hazardous waste, demolition debris and commercial waste. The city charged nothing for the day. A mattress is named in neither list, so the event takes household furniture by name but says nothing either way about bedding. Source Not confirmed: Neither the flyer nor the newsletter names a mattress or a box spring in the accepted or the unacceptable list. The absence is a gap: the flyer accepts household furniture by name, but it does not say a mattress counts and it does not say it is refused. Not confirmed: Neither document states a residency rule, a proof-of-residency requirement or a load limit per household. Not confirmed: No date is published for a 2027 Hooper cleanup, and the city publishes no fall event.
• Hooper City bills garbage itself, contracts out the route, and sends everything else to the county. Hooper City's utility billing page shows garbage as a line on the city bill at $16.00 a month for the first can, $11.00 for each additional can and $10.00 for a recycling can. Chapter 10 of Title VI of the Hooper City Code sets the terms: section 6-10-3 provides that 'The city shall grant a contract to an independent contractor to operate a residential solid waste collection and sanitary disposal pickup route within the city', and section 6-10-4 that 'The city or its contractor shall collect, remove and dispose of all residential solid waste'. Collection is cart-only - section 6-10-6 requires that 'All solid waste to be collected by the city from residential users shall be placed only in regulation containers', defined in 6-10-1 as 90 to 105 gallon automated containers with permanently attached, tight-fitting lids, and issues each residential user one container, with extras available under 6-10-7 at a monthly charge set by resolution for a minimum of six months. Section 6-10-8 requires the lid to close. Nothing in the chapter provides for a bulky-item or large-item pickup. Section 6-10-14 instead directs the resident outward: 'All processible solid waste generated within the city shall be delivered to the Weber County Transfer Station or other approved facility.' Section 6-10-12 bars anyone from bringing waste in from outside the city limits for the city's contractor to collect. Source Not confirmed: Neither the city's utility billing page nor Chapter 10 names the contractor that actually runs the Hooper route. Not confirmed: The code sets no charge for an extra or special pickup, and the city publishes no fee for one, so the cost of having anything collected outside the cart is not established.

• 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