How to get rid of a mattress in Berkeley, 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.

• Berkeley makes one hauler compulsory and then leaves the bulky question to an unpublished administrative procedure. Sec. 235.015 (Ord. No. 4251, 11-16-2015, effective 4-1-2016): "The property owner of any residential structure within the City is required to obtain and timely pay the cost of trash and garbage collection to the trash hauler designated by the Council of the City of Berkeley, Missouri. All residential property owners shall use the trash hauler designated by the City. Any property owner who fails to have an active trash collection service with the company authorized by the City shall be in violation of this Section", punishable as a misdemeanour by "a fine of not less than one dollar ($1.00) or more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and/or imprisonment for a term up to ninety (90) days." Sec. 235.040 excludes bulky trash from the ordinary route and routes it through the City Manager: "All solid waste from premises to which collection services are provided by the City shall be collected, except bulky rubbish as defined herein, provided however, that bulky rubbish will be collected if tied securely in bundles not exceeding reasonable limitations of weight and bulk to be fixed by regulations ... Bulky rubbish shall be collected by request to the City Manager. The City Manager shall establish the procedure for collecting bulky rubbish." Sec. 235.020 defines bulky waste as materials "which are either too large or too heavy to be safely and conveniently loaded in solid waste collection vehicles". The set-out window is in the code: a householder "shall not place or allow said garbage or rubbish or container in front of the front building line prior to 7:00 P.M. on the date preceding the collection of same and shall not leave such container in front of the front building line after 7:00 P.M. on the day of collection." Since Ord. No. 4373 (3-17-2017) it is also "unlawful for a real property owner or occupant to store a residential solid waste container any place visible from the front or side of the structure." Sec. 235.090 gives Berkeley something almost no municipality here has - an income-tested discount on the waste bill of 30%, 40% or 60% by income category, applied for between February 1 and April 30. Sec. 235.100 fines any violation $1.00 to $500.00, each day a separate offense, and makes unpaid service charges a lien on the property. Source Not confirmed: No procedure, schedule or charge for bulky trash has ever been published: the code hands it to the City Manager and the city's website carries nothing. What a Berkeley resident pays to have a mattress taken could not be established. Not confirmed: The income discount table in Sec. 235.090 still carries the 1995 income thresholds (Ord. No. 3332, 6-5-1995) and has not been restated; the current qualifying incomes are unknown. Not confirmed: No mattress is named anywhere in the chapter.
• The City of Berkeley names its designated hauler on its Resident Services page and nothing else: under "TRASH/ RECYCLING" the only entry is "Republic Waste Hauler - https://www.republicservices.com/". The city's Public Works page confirms the arrangement is a periodic city-wide contract rather than a resident-by-resident choice: "The Public Works Department is responsible for seeking competitive bids on the City Trash Contract every five years." Public Works is at 8425 Airport Rd, Berkeley, MO 63134, 314-524-3313. Source Not confirmed: The city publishes no rate, no bulky procedure and no collection calendar of its own; it links residents straight out to the hauler's national site, which serves no Berkeley-specific bulky terms.

• 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