How to get rid of a mattress in Hurricane, 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.

• Hurricane City does not run its own trash collection, and its own code says so. Title 4, Chapter 5 of the Hurricane City Code is the City's solid waste chapter, and Sec. 4-5-4 reads: "The City, by and through Washington County Special Service District No. 1 and its authorized agent, Allied/Red Rock Waste, shall provide mandatory automated collection disposal of all residential solid waste generated by all residential property or premises within the corporate limits of the City; provided, however, that an owner or occupant of residential property or premises may haul his or her own residential solid waste to the county landfill." Sec. 4-5-3 closes the loop on where it goes: "All solid waste generated within the incorporated areas of the City, except for hazardous waste, lead acid batteries and used oil, shall be transported to and disposed of at the county landfill." The set-out rules are the City's own and they are specific: Sec. 4-5-6 provides that "All residential solid waste shall be placed for collection by 6:00 a.m. of the day scheduled for collection. Automated/semi-automated containers shall be placed within three feet of the curbside, blacktop or other roadway surface, with three feet clearance on either side of the container from parked cars or other objects, and at other locations readily accessible to collection vehicles and personnel. All empty waste containers shall be removed from the street as soon as reasonably practicable but not later than 24 hours after being emptied." The only provision for waste that will not fit the cart is Sec. 4-5-5.B: "Any waste in addition to that contained in the automated/semi-automated container may be placed for collection in bags or manual containers located in close proximity to the automated/semi-automated container", and a manual container is defined as a receptacle of 20 to 35 gallons whose weight with contents "shall not exceed 60 pounds" — too small for a mattress. The words bulky, bulk and large item appear nowhere in the chapter: Hurricane's code defines no bulky waste category, sets no item allowance and names no mattress. Source Not confirmed: Hurricane's solid waste chapter contains no bulky item, large item or special pickup provision at all, so the code neither grants nor refuses a mattress collection. What the district's contractor will actually take at the curb in Hurricane is not stated in any Hurricane City source.
• The residential trash fee written into Hurricane's code ran out in 2009 and the code never replaced it. Sec. 4-5-7.A establishes "a monthly residential solid waste collection and disposal fee for each residential unit" built from four parts. The first is "The amount to be paid to Allied/Red Rock pursuant to the following schedule", and the whole schedule is three past date ranges: "10-27-1999 to 12-31-2002 $4.80", "1-1-2003 to 12-31-2006 5.05" and "1-1-2007 to 12-31-2009 5.30". No row covers any date after December 31, 2009. The three fixed components beside it are still stated — "The sum of $2.80 per residence for operation of the county landfill", "The sum of $1.55 per residence for administrative expenses of the district" and "The sum of $0.50 to offset the cost of billing and collection" — but the collection component itself has no amount in force. Sec. 4-5-7.B adds that the fee "shall be due and owing when said service is available regardless of whether said service is actually utilized", and Sec. 4-5-8 bills it monthly with the City's other utilities, delinquent after the fifteenth of the following month and then bearing interest "at the rate of five percent per month". A reader cannot take any current monthly trash price from the Hurricane City Code. Source Not confirmed: The amount Hurricane residents currently pay for residential solid waste is not published in the code. The City's Billing Information page points to a Utility Rate Schedule and a Consolidated Fee Schedule for it rather than stating a figure, and neither document was retrieved.
• Hurricane publishes the actual dollar penalty for dumping a mattress, which almost no city does. Sec. 1-4-1.F of the Hurricane City Code carries a table headed "CRIMINAL BAIL/FEE SCHEDULE FOR HURRICANE CITY ORDINANCES", and four of its rows bear on getting rid of a large household item the wrong way. "4-5-3 Disposal not in landfill" is classed as an Infraction with a recommended bail amount of "100.00". "4-6-5 Litter regulations" is likewise an Infraction at "100.00". "4-2-3 Maintaining a public nuisance" is a class C misdemeanor at "100.00", and "4-3-2 Weed nuisance" the same. The ceilings behind those figures are set in the same section: Sec. 1-4-1.D fixes the fine for "Class B misdemeanor: $1,000.00" and for "Class C misdemeanor; infraction: $750.00", while Sec. 1-4-1.C.1 provides that "A person convicted of an infraction may not be imprisoned but may be subject to a fine, forfeiture and disqualification, or any combination." Sec. 1-4-1.E sets higher corporate fines of $5,000 and $1,000 for the same two classes. So the schedule is a recommended bail figure, not the maximum a court may impose. Source
• Hurricane's code says where a mattress may not be left, and what that counts as. Sec. 4-6-5.A provides that "No person shall throw or deposit litter in or on any street, sidewalk or other public place except: 1. In authorized receptacles for collection or in official City garbage dumps; or 2. For collection as authorized by the City Council." Sec. 4-6-5.I covers private ground: "No person shall throw or deposit litter on any occupied private property, whether owned by such person or not, except that the owner or person in control of private property may maintain authorized private receptacles for collection in such a manner that litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited by the elements on any street, sidewalk or other public place or on any private property", and Sec. 4-6-5.J extends the same rule to vacant lots. Sec. 4-6-1 defines litter as "'garbage,' 'refuse' and 'rubbish,' as defined herein, and all other waste material which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited, tends to create a danger to public health, safety, welfare or appearance of the City." A mattress left in a yard is reached separately by the nuisance chapter: Sec. 4-2-2.A.1 makes it a nuisance to keep or deposit on property "Rubbish, refuse, junk, trash or debris" or "Abandoned, discarded or unused furniture, equipment, automobiles, stoves, refrigerators, freezers, construction materials, cans, containers or other objects not being used", and Sec. 4-2-2.A.5 reaches "Allowing vegetable waste, garbage, litter, filth or refuse of any nature to accumulate within or upon any property, except when it is temporarily deposited for immediate removal." Failing to comply with an abatement notice is a class C misdemeanor under Sec. 4-2-6.A, and Sec. 4-5-13 makes any violation of the solid waste chapter itself an infraction. Source
• Hurricane City's Billing Information page confirms the split a resident needs to understand before calling anyone: the City sends the bill, but it is not the trash service. The page states that "The City also bills for sewer and garbage services on behalf of Ash Creek Special Service District and Washington County Solid Waste". For the amounts it does not give a figure, saying instead: "For more information about all utility fees, download the Utility Rate Schedule, reference the Consolidated Fee Schedule, or contact a Utility Clerk." Hurricane City's website carries no garbage, sanitation, solid waste or public works service page of its own; the only waste link in its navigation is an outbound Quick Link to the Washington County Solid Waste district's BluCan curbside recycling page. Questions about a can or a missed pickup therefore go to the district, not to the City, and the City Offices line is 435-635-2811. Source
• The Habitat for Humanity ReStore for the whole St. George area is physically in Hurricane, at "39 S Main Street", "Hurricane, UT 84737", and it is the nearest reuse option a Hurricane resident can walk a piece of furniture into. Habitat for Humanity of Southwest Utah states: "We accept donations Tuesday – Saturday from 10 am-3 pm at our donation dock located behind the ReStore." Its published list of what the ReStore takes is itemized and it opens with "Furniture (in good condition)", then Hardware and Tools, Lawn and Garden, Plumbing Supplies, Roofing Materials, Wallboard/Sheetrock, Windows, Appliances, Architectural Items, Bathroom Fittings and fixtures, Cabinets and Countertops, Doors, Lighting, and Lumber, Electrical Items and fans, Flooring Materials, and Framed mirrors and glass. Mattresses, box springs and bedding appear nowhere in that list, and the affiliate publishes no list of items it will not accept. The store's phone number is (435) 628-4041 and its sister ReStore is at 124 N Main, Cedar City. Source Not confirmed: The ReStore's accepted list names furniture but says nothing about mattresses or box springs, and the affiliate publishes no not-accepted list. That is an absence, not a refusal: whether the Hurricane ReStore will take a mattress 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