How to get rid of a mattress in Savannah, 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.

• Savannah's trash service is compulsory and priced to the cent. The city states that 'The City has mandatory trash and recycling service for all residential households', with Redgate Disposal LLC collecting recycling on Thursdays every other week and trash on Fridays, and Section 225.080 of the city code fixes the charge: 'The service charge for collection of residential solid waste shall be in the amount of twenty-six dollars seventy-nine cents ($26.79) per calendar month for each dwelling unit', reduced to $23.19 for residents who apply and whose sole support is Social Security, with a 10% penalty if the bill is not paid by the 15th. Service is opened at City Hall against photo ID and a deposit of $50 for homeowners or $150 for renters, and ends only on proof that the dwelling is unoccupied. What that money buys is strictly bounded: 'Trash must fit into the 1 provided plastic poly cart plus (2) 39-gallon bags per week', set at the curb before 6 a.m. on collection day, and 'Special items not picked up with regular household trash are: yard waste, appliances, batteries, motor oil, paint cans, and hazardous materials.' Section 225.020 caps any residential container and its contents at 75 pounds. Recycling may also be taken to the Andrew County Recycling Facility at 11 & Davis. Section 225.050 caps the whole trade at six collection permits for the city, and Section 225.100 restricts the Savannah sanitary landfill to waste collected inside Andrew County unless the Mayor approves otherwise. Source Not confirmed: A mattress appears on neither the accepted nor the 'special items not picked up' list, and the city directs questions on unacceptable trash to City Hall by telephone. Not confirmed: Section 225.100 refers to a Savannah sanitary landfill but no city page gives it an address, hours or a gate rate, so no self-haul option can be established there.
• Savannah's code takes a mattress out of the weekly collection with one clause and then never puts a price on getting rid of it. Section 225.030 provides that 'All solid waste from premises, to which collection services are provided by the City, shall be collected, except bulky rubbish' — bulky trash being defined in Section 225.010 as non-putrescible waste 'either too large or too heavy to be safely and conveniently loaded in solid waste collection vehicles by solid waste collectors, with the equipment available therefore' — and Section 225.020 likewise exempts bulky trash from the containers every occupant must otherwise provide. The route out is left to an officer: 'Bulky rubbish shall be collected by request to the Director. The Director shall establish the procedure for collecting bulky rubbish and the charges therefore', and Section 225.030(G)(1) confirms that only 'residential solid waste, other than bulky rubbish' is collected at least weekly. Section 225.060 lists among the Director's rule-making powers the 'Handling and transportation of special wastes such as toxic wastes, sludges, ashes, agriculture, construction, bulky items, tires, automobiles, oils, greases, etc.' Chapter 225 has been amended more than twenty times since 1994 and the only figures ever put in it are the $26.79 and $23.19 monthly residential charges, a $7.00 monthly business recycling charge and the $50 and $5 permit fees. The charge the code obliges the Director to establish for bulky trash has never been published, so a Savannah household has a route for its mattress on paper and no way to price it. Source Not confirmed: No procedure and no charge for bulky trash has been published by the Director; the code requires both and the city's pages carry neither, so the cost cannot be stated and must not be read as free. Not confirmed: Redgate Disposal publishes no terms of its own for Savannah. Not confirmed: A mattress is named nowhere in Chapter 225.

• 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