How to get rid of a mattress in Kennett, 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.

• Kennett's collection is run by its own utility and reaches only its own customers, and the same page tells a resident two different things about a large item. KBPW began residential solid-waste collection in November 2025 'to over 4,000 residences within the city limits of Kennett'; each eligible residence gets one 96-gallon cart at $18.95 a month on the KBPW utility bill, with an additional cart at $10.00 a month. The bulk service is tied to that account: KBPW 'offers residential bulk pick-ups for large, bulky items, including garage debris, furniture, and appliances for customers currently receiving weekly residential waste collection through the Kennett Board of Public Works.' Pickups run on Fridays and 'must be scheduled by 3 P.M. the Wednesday before'; the resident chooses the Friday and rings KBPW to check availability. Set-out is doubly constrained: 'Bulk items should not be placed at the curbside until a pickup appointment has been confirmed with KBPW. Items must be placed curbside by 6 A.M. on the day of pickup.' The service is 'For residential customers only. Commercial customers are welcome to dispose of items at the Kennett Transfer Station', and 'Bulk pick-ups cannot be used by landlords for set outs.' Excluded are household trash from the cart, yard waste, construction and building materials, and 'Tires, food waste, electronics, batteries, oil, concrete, railroad ties, automobile parts, pesticides, paint (unless dried), or hazardous materials.' A mattress is on neither list. Against all that, the page's Collection Rules section states flatly that 'Large Items and Appliances will need to be taken to the KBPW Transfer Station for disposal' — a direct contradiction of the bulk pick-up policy printed above it on the same page. Regular carts may go out 'no sooner than 4 p.m. the day before the scheduled pickup day' and must come in as soon as possible on the day; a cart whose lid will not close draws '$5.00 charge per cart per occurrence', and a third overfill in a month forces a second cart at $10.00 a month. Source Not confirmed: No fee is published for a bulk pick-up anywhere on the page. The monthly $18.95 charge is for cart collection and the page never says the bulk pick-up is included in it, so the bulk pick-up must not be described as free. Not confirmed: The page contradicts itself: the bulk policy accepts furniture at the curb while the collection rules send large items to the transfer station. Which governs a mattress is not established. Not confirmed: No limit is published on the number of bulk items per pick-up, and mattresses are named on neither the accepted-examples list nor the exclusion list. Not confirmed: A tenant whose landlord holds the utility account has no stated route; landlords are barred from using bulk pick-up for set-outs.

• 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