How to get rid of a mattress in Osage Beach, 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.

• Osage Beach abolished its bulky trash provision in 2023 and says in terms that it collects nothing. Section 235.190, as amended by Ord. No. 23.16 of April 6, 2023, reads: "A. The City shall not provide for the collection of residential solid waste in the City. B. The City shall not provide commercial solid waste collection services. It shall be the duty of such establishment to provide for collection of all solid waste produced upon any such premises." Section 235.210, amended by the same ordinance, keeps the item outside whatever a private collector must take: "All solid waste from premises to which collection services are provided shall be collected, except bulky rubbish as defined herein." And the sections that used to govern the item are gone: the editor's note at Sections 235.220 to 235.240 records that "Former Sections 235.220, Placement For Collection; 235.230, Bulky Rubbish; and 235.240, Entry Onto Private Property, were repealed 4-6-2023 by Ord. No. 23.16." Section 235.200 still requires residential solid waste "other than bulky rubbish" to be collected at least once weekly, which is a duty on the householder to arrange it. Bulky trash is defined at Section 235.010 as non-putrescible waste "either too large or too heavy to be safely and conveniently loaded in solid waste collection vehicles", the class a mattress falls into. The city named a whole class of item, excluded it from collection, and then struck the section that had governed it — leaving a Lake of the Ozarks household to negotiate a mattress privately with a licensed collector. Source Not confirmed: The City publishes no list of the collectors licensed to operate within its limits under Section 235.070(A)(4) Not confirmed: Because no city collection exists and the bulky trash section was repealed, there is no municipal price of any kind for a mattress in Osage Beach
• What is left of Osage Beach's solid waste chapter after the 2023 repeal is enforcement, not service. Section 235.070, as amended by Ord. No. 23.16 of April 6, 2023, makes it unlawful to "Deposit solid waste in any solid waste container other than his/her own, without the written consent of the owner of such container", to interfere with collectors, to "Dispose of solid waste at any facility or location that is not approved by the City and the State of Missouri", or to "Engage in the business of collecting, transporting, processing or disposing of waste within the corporate limits of the City without a business license from the City". Section 235.030 gives the Director — the City Administrator or designee — power to issue notices of violation and to suspend or revoke the business license of a collector who does not correct them, with appeal to the Circuit Court within ten days. Section 235.020(A)(12) reserves to the Director the making of rules on the "Handling of special wastes such as toxic wastes, sludges, ashes, agriculture, construction, bulky items, tires, automobiles, oils, greases, etc.", but no such published rule for bulky items could be found. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 235 sets no monetary fine for its prohibited practices; the stated sanction runs against a collector's business license, and the penalty a householder faces for dumping is not set out in this chapter Not confirmed: No rule made by the Director under Section 235.020(A)(12) for bulky items is published
• The only place the City of Osage Beach itself invites residents to bring anything takes garden waste and nothing else. Its Recycling & Disposal page says the city has no municipal recycling center and points instead at private operators — it names Lake Area Industries, Camdenton Recycling Center, Presidio Environmental, Laclede Industries, Rock Island Iron & Metal Recycling, GFL Environmental, Republic Services and "various auto parts and home improvement stores" — without an address, an opening time or a price for any of them. The city's own site is the year-round yard and garden waste drop at Osage Beach City Park, 950 Hatchery Road, open 7 a.m. to sunset, and the accepted list is itemized: "trimmings, limbs, grass clippings, garden waste and small trees", with tree stumps and plastic bags excluded. The page also records that the city "no longer offers waste oil recycling". A mattress appears nowhere on the page, in either direction. Source Not confirmed: The yard waste site's accepted list is itemized and contains no bedding or furniture, which is an absence rather than a stated refusal Not confirmed: None of the private recyclers the city names is given an address, opening hours or a rate on the city's page, so none of them meets the standard for listing

• 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