How to get rid of a mattress in Arnold, MO.

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.

• Arnold's Chapter 235, Article II [all sections Ord. No. 15.6 (Bill No. 2805), 9-16-2021] makes trash service compulsory and charges for it whether it is used or not - the answer to why an Arnold household cannot simply opt out and self-haul a mattress. Section 235.180(B): where the City provides collection by contract, "it shall be unlawful for any property owner or occupant of a residence eligible for the contracted service: To fail to register with the City's service provider; or To fail to subscribe to such service; or To permit such subscription to lapse or be terminated." Section 235.190: "There is hereby imposed... a service charge upon the owner or owners of each dwelling unit within the City, whether such dwelling unit utilizes such services or not", in the amount provided by the City Council, enforceable by legal action and by a lien filed with the Jefferson County Recorder of Deeds. Section 235.180(A)(7) also bars anyone from collecting or emptying waste containers "before the hour of 6:00 A.M. or after the hour of 9:00 P.M." BULKY RUBBISH is defined as non-putrescible waste "either too large or too heavy to be safely and conveniently loaded in solid waste collection vehicles by solid waste collectors, with the equipment available therefor". Source Not confirmed: The code sets no amount for the service charge; it is left to the City Council and no figure is published in Chapter 235 Not confirmed: The code sets no bulky-item allowance, no bulky fee and no mattress rule; Section 235.170 leaves the "Handling of special wastes such as... bulky rubbish" to rules promulgated by the Director and no such rules are published on the city site
• Arnold publishes the tightest curb window of the five Jefferson County towns, in Section 235.390: "No solid waste containers, tree limbs, yard wastes, or other solid wastes shall be placed on the street or in the gutter or drainage ditch. Any solid waste containers, tree limbs, yard wastes, or other solid wasted permitted by this Article to be placed at curbside for collection shall be so placed by 6:00 A.M. on the day of collection, but shall not be so placed earlier than 6:00 P.M. on the day prior to the regularly scheduled collection day. Containers shall be removed from curbside no later than 8:00 P.M. on the day of collection." Section 235.370 gives the City the power to contract the whole service out, Section 235.380 makes waste the collector's property once loaded, Section 235.410 requires residential collection at least once weekly, and Section 235.420 requires outdoor containers to be stored "on the side or back of the residence". A mattress left at the curb the weekend before collection day is out of time under this section. Source
• Arnold's contracted collector is Republic Services, which the City confirms on its own news page and to whose flyer it points residents for "Holiday pickup schedules, Bulk item guidelines, Yard waste collection, Recycling dos and don'ts". The flyer the City actually hosts, dated April 2025, turns out to be two pages of Republic's national account-management and Track My Truck marketing and contains no bulk item guidelines, no fees and no mention of mattresses. Searching the city site for "trash" returns only holiday-schedule notices and this page. So Arnold is a city whose ordinance compels every household to subscribe, and which publishes no bulky-item terms at all. Source Not confirmed: Arnold publishes no bulky-item allowance, no bulky-item fee, no accepted or not-accepted list and no mattress rule; the flyer it links as the source of "bulk item guidelines" does not contain any

• Sleepyhead FAQ states no local mattress recycling options. Bridging The Gap primary page advertises mattress recycling in Kansas City at 5117 E 31st Street. Source
• Missouri DNR: 20 solid waste management districts plan local recycling services, with a county-to-district lookup map. No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on DNR pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source