How to get rid of a mattress in Syracuse, 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.

• Syracuse City runs no bulky-item or large-item collection of any kind. The City contracts residential collection to Robinson Waste, reached at 801-825-3800 for a missed pickup, and the service is cart-only: garbage weekly, recycling every other week, green waste weekly if the household signs up. The Garbage page's list of what may not go in the can names the problem directly — "Construction or demolition debris, hazardous or flammable materials, hot ashes, items over four feet long, large bulky items, rocks or concrete, unbagged dirt, sod, or grass clippings, household hazardous waste, and electronic waste." A twin mattress is 75 inches long and a queen 80 inches, so every standard mattress breaks the four-foot rule as well as the bulky-item rule. Cans must be at the curb the night before or by 5:30 a.m. on collection day, facing the street and not on top of the curb, four feet apart, clear of parked vehicles and the mailbox, and off the street by the end of the day. Cans are tied to the address by serial number and must not be taken when a resident moves; a household may hold at most five containers in total. Recycling is bundled into the base rate, so it is paid for whether or not it is used, and a household below 150 percent of the poverty level under the state HEAT program may apply for a hardship waiver by calling Utility Billing at 801-825-1477, option 2. No city page offers a clean-up day, a neighborhood dumpster, or a landfill voucher, so a Syracuse resident with a mattress has no city route at all. Source Not confirmed: The monthly solid waste rate is set in the city's Consolidated Fee Schedule, which the Garbage page links but does not quote, so no dollar figure for collection is established here.
• Syracuse Municipal Code Chapter 4.50 settles what a resident may legally do with a mattress, and it is more permissive about rented dumpsters than most Utah towns. Section 4.50.010 defines "Bulky wastes" as "wastes that are not capable of being stored in the approved automated refuse containers and cannot be picked up by normally used collection vehicles," and then lists bulky wastes as item (18) of "Nonprocessible waste" — "goods and materials which are not residential and/or are prohibited by the disposal facility" — alongside item (13), "Any item exceeding two feet by two feet by five feet in dimensions." A queen mattress is 60 by 80 inches, so it exceeds that cap on two sides. Nothing in the chapter provides for collecting bulky waste at all. Section 4.50.060(B) is the useful exception: commercial dumpsters larger than 100 gallons are banned in residential zones for normal waste collection, but "Dumpsters may be used on a temporary basis to remove extra household waste. The use shall not exceed 14 days in a six-month period" — so a Syracuse household may legally place a rented roll-off at the house for up to two weeks twice a year without a permit, which is the only on-property route the code allows. Section 4.50.080(C) sets the set-out window: containers "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 6:00 a.m. on the day of collection," and emptied containers must come off the right-of-way within 24 hours. Section 4.50.110 makes it unlawful to "place, deposit, or dump household, recycling, construction, and green waste upon any lot within the municipality whether such lot is occupied or vacant," and that applies to the owner of the lot as much as to a stranger. Section 4.50.120 requires that "All processible waste generated within the City shall be delivered to the Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District facilities." The code is current through Ordinance 26-18, passed August 11, 2026. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 4.50 sets no penalty of its own for the dumping prohibition, and which general penalty section applies was not established. Not confirmed: No source confirms a local reuse outlet in Syracuse 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