How to get rid of a mattress in Branson, 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.

• The City of Branson collects no household trash: "Weekly trash and solid waste removal is handled by private businesses, not the city." The city keeps no list of licensed haulers on its own site and sends residents to the Branson Yellow Pages for solid waste management providers. For large items it points instead at the Taney County Transfer Station north of Branson on Buchanan Road, with questions at 417-336-6589. Source Not confirmed: the city publishes no hauler prices, no bulky-item allowance and no mattress terms for curbside service
• Not an option: Branson's free City Wide Spring Cleanup — March 30 to April 3, 2026, run ward by ward for individual Branson residents only, with businesses and commercial entities excluded — refuses mattresses by name. The city states it "can NOT collect refrigerators, freezers, A/C units, mattresses, tires, electronics, batteries, bagged leaves/lawn clippings or household hazardous waste products including paint, stain, or cleaning supplies". The same notice routes mattresses and tires to the Taney County Transfer Station at 417-336-6589. Everything that is accepted must be at the curb by 6 a.m. on the pick-up day, brush limbs cut and stacked in 4-5 foot piles to a maximum of one dump truckload per residence, and heavy items need a call 24 hours ahead to 417-337-8559 ext. 1305. A resident who sees a free citywide cleanup and assumes their mattress counts is wrong. Source
• Branson Municipal Code Chapter 74 keeps the city formally responsible for "a solid waste management system, and the collection and the removal of solid waste from all residential and commercial units" (Sec. 74-2), but Sec. 74-35 lets it discharge that duty by "Permitting all inhabitants to make private arrangements for disposal of solid waste under permit of health officer" — which is what the city in fact does. The set-out rule is Sec. 74-4(c): "Waste containers shall be placed at the curb on the day of collection and before such collection", with manually lifted containers capped at 35 gallons and 65 pounds. Sec. 74-7(5) makes it unlawful to collect, transport, process or dispose of solid waste in the city "without a contract with, or a permit from, the city". Sec. 74-8 is the dumping rule: "No person shall pile, dump, scatter or accumulate any garbage, waste, debris or refuse on either public or private property within the city, or permit such acts to be done." Sec. 74-36 authorizes the board to "fix, levy, and collect a service charge for solid waste management services" from occupants who take the city service; no such schedule is published, because no city service runs. Source Not confirmed: no service charge schedule has ever been published under Sec. 74-36, and the city publishes no list of permitted haulers

• 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