How to get rid of a mattress in Joplin, 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.

• There is no mattress recycler in Joplin. The City's free Recycling Center at 1310 W. A Street (corner of A Street & Porter Avenue, north side of the Public Works Center) publishes an itemized list of everything it takes - "Corrugated Cardboard & Paperboard; Newspapers (with inserts); Magazines, Catalogs, Telephone Directories, Books, Junk Mail, Office Paper; Plastic #1 & #2 Bottles with Necks; Glass Bottles, Jugs, Jars; Aluminum Cans and Tin/Steel Cans, All Metal; #2 & #4 Plastic Shopping Bags; Clean Packing Peanuts, Bubble Wrap; All Batteries; Cooking Oil; Electronic Waste" - plus household hazardous waste, the HHW portion "open only to residents of McDonald, Newton, Jasper, Barton, and Vernon Counties". Hours are Tuesday & Thursday 12 NOON to 6 PM and Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 9 AM to 3 PM. Bedding of any kind appears nowhere in that list, and the Guide's own scrap and recycling directory - CMC Recycling, Missouri Metal Recycling in Webb City, Total Recycling, Service Recycling, Midwest Fibre Sales - names no mattress processor either. Source Not confirmed: An absence from the accepted list is not a published refusal: the Recycling Center has never stated that it will not take a mattress, only that it does not list one.
• The Joplin Area Habitat for Humanity ReStore, 5201 North Main Street, Joplin, MO 64801 (417-782-7467), describes itself as having "new and used building materials" and says "The ReStore accepts donations of construction materials, household appliances home furnishings and much more." Its own itemized "We Have" list runs Lighting, Floor Registers, Flooring, Kitchen & Bath Fixtures, Paint & Supplies, Plumbing Supplies, Doors, Electrical Supplies, Countertops, Cabinets and Vanities, Home Furnishings, Shingles, Tools, Toilets, Windows, Tile & Linoleum, Nails & Screws, Siding, Tubs & Showers and Lumber. Bedding appears nowhere in it. The City of Joplin's own waste guide lists the same store only under BUILDING MATERIALS, as accepting "donations of new and used building materials and surplus supplies from contractors, individuals and retail chains". Source Not confirmed: The ReStore publishes no accepted/not-accepted donation policy and has never said in writing whether it takes a mattress. This is an absence from an itemized list, not a refusal.
• Joplin's long-standing FAQ answer is still live and is now partly out of date - worth knowing before a reader drives to the transfer station on its numbers. "How can I dispose of bulky trash items? Single-family residential customers on the franchise trash program through Republic Trash Services may set out approved bulky items with weekly trash pickup. Items accepted include furniture, mattresses, televisions, solid paint, tree limbs and brush bundled and cut to 4' maximum lengths, microwave ovens, dry carpet bundled to 50 pounds max and 4' max, and small amounts of bundled or containerized construction and demolition debris. Unacceptable items include oils, lead acid batteries, appliances, railroad ties, liquid paint, tires, commercial waste, and large amounts of construction and demolition debris... The City's bulky item drop-off service provider is Waste Corporation of America (WCA)... Fees for the bulky items drop-off service are divided in half between the resident and the City. Residents will pay $9 for up to 2,000 pounds brought in by car, pick-up truck, or a trailer less than eight feet in length. For loads brought on a trailer eight feet or longer, the fee will be $11... WCA's hours for drop-off are 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday. The facility is located at 3700 W. 7th Street, on the south side of 7th Street, just west of Schifferdecker Avenue." The operator is now GFL, the published hours are 7:30 am - 3:30 pm weekdays and 7:30 am - 12:00 pm Saturday, and the subsidized fees in the City's current Recycling & Waste Disposal Guide are $10.20 and $13.26. Source Not confirmed: The City has not withdrawn or corrected the FAQ, which still names WCA and quotes $9/$11 and different hours. The Bulky Item Drop-Off page and the Recycling & Waste Disposal Guide are the current figures.

• 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