How to get rid of a mattress in Gladstone, 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.

• Gladstone confirms in its own words what Clay County's directory records: the City collects nothing. Its New Residents page states "Gladstone residents can select the waste disposal company that best meets their needs based on the services and rates available. Below are the names and numbers of businesses that service our City," followed by Republic Services Inc. - 816-254-1470, KC Waste Containers, Inc. dba Platte Valley Sanitation - 816-746-8619, and Deffenbaugh Ind. - 913-631-3300. There is no municipal sanitation charge, no bulky allowance and no fee schedule. The same page names the one city site there is — "Brush Facility: Gladstone Public Works, 4000 NE 76th St (north of Happy Rock Park)" — which is brush and yard waste, not household bulk. (Gladstone, Missouri, in Clay County: not the Gladstone in Oregon.) Source Not confirmed: None of the three named companies publishes a Gladstone mattress price, so no figure is recorded.
• Gladstone's one municipal opportunity for household bulk is a weekend a year. Public Works writes: "The City of Gladstone offers residents the opportunity to dispose of trash, debris and bulky items during its annual Beautification weekend. Household hazardous waste, commercial waste and yard waste are not accepted during this event. Beautification is usually scheduled for the last weekend in April. Please check the Community Calendar to confirm the dates and times." Two separate yard waste disposal events run "traditionally scheduled for the first weekend in May and the first weekend in November", and at those "residents may only dispose of grass, leaves, tree limbs and brush" — so the November event is no use for a bed. Questions go to Public Works at 816-436-5442. The Beautification page carries a category list of what is not accepted and no list of what is; a mattress appears on neither, which is a gap rather than either an acceptance or a refusal. Source Not confirmed: The page names no date for the current year, no fee, no location and no accepted-items list, and does not say whether a mattress counts as "trash, debris and bulky items" for the event.

• 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