How to get rid of a mattress in Ladue, 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.

• Ladue is the pattern where nobody municipal collects: the city licenses haulers and leaves the household to buy the service. Code of Ordinances Chapter 42, Article II sets no city contract and no designated hauler. Instead Sec. 42-52 requires that "No person shall engage in the business of collecting, transporting, processing, or disposing of solid waste within the corporate limits of the city, without first obtaining an annual permit therefor from the city", with insurance filed under Sec. 42-53, an application naming "Customers serviced" under Sec. 42-54, a one-year permit and fee under Sec. 42-55, and city licensing of every vehicle under Sec. 42-49. A Ladue resident therefore contracts with a permitted private hauler of their own choosing, and the price of a mattress is whatever that hauler charges. Two rules still bind the resident. Sec. 42-38: "Solid waste containers for the storage of solid waste shall be placed at the rear or side of the building for collection and shall be screened from view from any public or private road" - unusual, and it means there is no ordinary front-curb set-out in Ladue. Sec. 42-47 requires collection "at least twice weekly" with at least 48 hours between collections, excluding tree limbs, leaves and bulky trash. Sec. 42-1 makes littering or dumping on any street, public place, park or the private property of others unlawful, with the sole exception of leaves, brush and tree limbs placed at the road right-of-way during the city's own pickup period. The city does collect tree limbs ten inches in diameter or less and leaves itself under Sec. 42-40. Source Not confirmed: Sec. 42-45 is the whole of the code on large items: "The director shall establish the procedure for collecting bulky rubbish." No such procedure, schedule or charge is published by the city, so Ladue has an authorized bulky collection with no stated terms. It must not be read as a free or available service. Not confirmed: The city publishes a list of licensed trash haulers, but the file redirects to its content-management host and returned nothing readable on two attempts, so the current list of permitted haulers could not be captured. Not confirmed: No city page states a mattress rule, a wrapping requirement or a bulky price.

• 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