How to get rid of a mattress in Maryville, 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.

• Maryville collects nothing. The city's own solid waste page states it plainly — 'The City does not provide refuse collection services. All collection services in the City are privately owned.' — and then lists the haulers a household must choose between: Gary Maxwell (660) 582-4716, Gaskil Sanitation (660) 541-3596, Mozingo Sanitation (660) 582-3675 and Porter Trash (660) 582-2069 or (660) 582-9117. There is therefore no city bulky-item allowance, no special pickup, no set-out day and no municipal charge of any kind; what happens to a mattress in Maryville is settled entirely between the household and whichever private hauler it subscribes to. No mattress is named anywhere on the page and no hauler publishes a price. Source Not confirmed: None of the four named haulers publishes a page setting out whether it takes a mattress or what it charges. Not confirmed: The page does not say whether the city licenses these haulers or how a resident is meant to choose between them.
• Maryville's code still runs a city tip, and its fees are the cheapest self-haul figures anywhere in northern Missouri — but nothing on the city's current website says the gate is open. Chapter 220, Article IV of the code governs the 'Maryville processing facility', defined in Article I as 'all facilities located at the site of the Maryville transfer station and the Maryville compost center'. Section 220.090 says 'The City shall accept normal solid waste for disposal at its processing facility subject to the applicable fees and requirements', and Section 220.150 sets those fees: normal solid waste at 'forty-eight dollars ($48.00) per ton which shall include the current State of Missouri fee', with 'a minimum per-load fee of twelve dollars ($12.00) for any vehicle depositing less than five hundred (500) pounds', prorated above 500 pounds at the per-ton rate; wood and brush at $33.00 per ton with a $7.00 minimum for 430 pounds or less a day; tires sixteen inches or smaller and off the rim at $5.00 each; waste oil at twenty cents a gallon; and no fee at all for compost material at the compost center. A mattress runs 50 to 100 pounds, so it would fall inside the $12.00 minimum load. It is not excluded either: Section 220.130's list of what will not be accepted runs to white goods, lead acid batteries, yard waste and leaves, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, bulk liquids, septic tank pumpings and regulated hazardous, radioactive and infectious waste, and bedding appears nowhere on it. Section 220.170 requires users to unload their own vehicles onto the working face as the attendant directs, to enter only at marked entrances during operating hours, to keep to 10 miles per hour, and to submit the load to inspection; scavenging is unlawful and everything tipped becomes the property of the City under Section 220.140. The catch is that the city's current solid waste page names only the four private haulers and mentions no transfer station, compost center, address or hours at all, and local reporting says the city gave notice in 2022 that it would stop operating the station after no company bid to run it. No service is recorded here because the facility's present operation could not be established from any primary page. Source Not confirmed: No city page gives the transfer station or compost center a street address or opening hours, and the current solid waste page does not mention either facility. Not confirmed: Whether the Maryville processing facility is still open to a household, and whether the Section 220.150 fees are still charged, could not be established from any primary source. Not confirmed: The code does not name a mattress in either the accepted or the excluded list; it falls to be treated as normal solid waste by inference from the exclusions, which is not the same as the city saying so.

• 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