How to get rid of a mattress in Hannibal, 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.

• Hannibal runs no municipal collection: it licenses private haulers, and its code says so. Chapter 27, Solid Waste. Sec. 27-7(a): "Every occupant of a dwelling unit shall dispose of all his garbage and rubbish in a clean and sanitary manner ... Garbage and rubbish shall be picked up by a licensed hauler as required in article II of this chapter or be removed to a state approved landfill. For enforcement of this section, the city building inspector may require a signed receipt from the landfill operator." Sec. 27-7(b) puts the duty on the owner for any dwelling of three or more units and on the occupant in all other cases. Sec. 27-33(a): "No person may haul or collect garbage or rubbish without a permit issued by the city building inspector", and 27-33(d) sets a semiannual license fee of $25.00; permit holders must display the permit number in four-inch letters and file a monthly customer address list. Sec. 27-37 fixes frequency and hours: "Collectors and haulers shall collect and remove garbage and rubbish from the premises of every dwelling unit not less than one time weekly. All collections of garbage and rubbish shall be made between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m." Sec. 27-39(a): "Any person convicted of any offense under this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not less than $200.00 for a first offense, not less than $400.00 for a second offense, and $500.00 for any subsequent offense", with 30 hours of community service under public works as a condition of any suspended sentence for a first offense. Sec. 27-1 defines "Rubbish" to include "household furniture", so a mattress falls inside what a licensed hauler is collecting - but the chapter contains no bulky item program, no allowance, no free clean-up and no mattress of any kind. The supervising officer is the city building inspector (Sec. 27-2). This is Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri, not Hannibal, New York. Source Not confirmed: The code sets no bulky item program and no price; what a Hannibal hauler charges to take a mattress is set by each licensed hauler and is not published by the city Not confirmed: The city publishes no list of currently permitted haulers on its website, so a resident cannot see from the city who is licensed
• Hannibal's own department list confirms there is no sanitation arm to ask. The city states it "is comprised of fourteen (14) basic departments or functions" and names them: Executive/City Council, City Clerk, Collector's Office, Street Department, Board of Public Works, Building Inspector, Parks & Recreation, Police Department, Fire Department, Municipal Court, Public Library, Emergency Management, Airport, and Convention & Visitors Bureau. None is a sanitation, solid waste, refuse or recycling department. Read with the Street Department's own page, which covers street repairs, sweeping, snow removal, sidewalks, disabled parking and the traffic committee, a town of 16,804 publishes no bulky collection, no free clean-up day and no drop-off of its own. Marion County publishes none either and the Missouri DNR lists no landfill and no transfer station anywhere in the county, so a Hannibal mattress leaves town on a licensed private hauler's truck at that hauler's own price. Source Not confirmed: No city page names the nearest permitted disposal site for a Hannibal self-hauler

• 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