How to get rid of a mattress in Sikeston, 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.

• Sikeston's ordinance commits somebody to collecting bulky trash on request and never says what it costs. Code Chapter 220 defines bulky trash as 'All non-putrescible, non-liquid solid wastes... which are either too large or too heavy to be safely and conveniently loaded into vehicles designed for solid waste collection (packer trucks) without additional loading equipment and/or manpower' — a mattress plainly. Sec. 220.300 excludes it from the routine service: 'all residential solid waste, other than bulky rubbish, shall be collected at least twice weekly.' Sec. 220.130 then provides the whole of the rule: 'Bulky rubbish shall be collected by contract collector or private collector at the request of the person responsible for it. The fee for such collection shall be based on the weight, size and type of the bulky rubbish to be collected.' No schedule anywhere in the chapter sets that fee; Sec. 220.340 levies only 'a monthly charge as established by the City Council against each dwelling unit', added to the water bill under 220.350 and collected by the Board of Municipal Utilities. Sec. 220.100 confirms the City provides collection through licensed or contracted collectors rather than its own crews. The set-out rule is Sec. 220.060: containers 'shall not be so placed until the regularly scheduled collection day and empty containers shall not be permitted to remain on the street after they are emptied by the collector.' Sec. 220.320 makes it unlawful to put waste in someone else's container to avoid the service charge, to interfere with collectors, or to collect waste in the city without a license. Source Not confirmed: The ordinance commits the contract collector to take bulky trash on request and sets the charge only as a formula — 'based on the weight, size and type' — with no published rate anywhere. This is a charge the code authorizes and no schedule sets; it must not be read as free. Not confirmed: Sikeston publishes no penalty figure in Chapter 220 for the prohibitions in Sec. 220.320. Not confirmed: No set-out time of day is given, only the day.

• 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