How to get rid of a mattress in Trenton, 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.

• Trenton's household waste is collected by a licensed contractor and billed by the city's own utility: Trenton Municipal Utilities states that 'TMU also bills for residential trash and collects those fees to send on to the trash company', and names Rapid Removal Disposal, 86 NW 10th Ave, Trenton, at (660) 654-4287 as that company. The code frames it the same way — Section 240.030(A) provides that 'Collection of all solid waste in the City shall be provided for; however, collection service may be provided by any person, County, or other City or a combination thereof', each provider licensed by the City Council against a bond and carrying $1,000,000 combined single limit public liability cover. A mattress falls outside the weekly route: Section 240.030(G)(1) requires that 'All residential solid waste, other than bulky rubbish, shall be collected at least once weekly', and Section 240.030(D) leaves bulky trash to a separate request — 'Bulky rubbish shall be collected by request, in accordance with procedures established by the City Administrator' — with neither the procedure nor any charge published by the City Administrator, TMU or Rapid Removal. Containers 'shall not be so placed until the regularly scheduled collection day' under Section 240.030(C), and tree limbs and yard waste go instead to the Street Maintenance Facility, which the city describes as a brush dump on NW 27th Street taking tree limbs and small branches only, Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Section 240.120 makes it unlawful to dispose of solid waste at any facility or location not approved by the City and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, to deposit waste in a container other than one's own, to interfere with collectors, or to burn waste without a permit, and Section 240.130 prices a breach: 'a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the City Jail for not more than three (3) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment'. The only money the chapter sets is Section 240.125, a tipping fee of two dollars minimum and two dollars per ton that a transfer station operator pays the City — not a householder's charge. Source Not confirmed: No procedure and no charge for bulky trash collection has been established by the City Administrator in anything published, so the Section 240.030(D) route cannot be priced or booked from the city's pages. Not confirmed: TMU's rates and fees page publishes electric, water and wastewater schedules but no residential trash rate, so the monthly charge a Trenton household pays is not published. Not confirmed: A mattress is named nowhere in Chapter 240 and Rapid Removal publishes no page of terms of its own.

• 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