How to get rid of a mattress in Belleville, IL.

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.

• Belleville's collection schedule sets the set-out rule that also governs a large item load. Containers must be "placed out for collection by 6:00 AM" and "removed within 24 hours"; trash cans may hold up to 45 gallons but must not exceed 60 pounds filled; "Trash, Recycling, and Yard Waste must be out for collection by 6:00 AM, with no exceptions." Yard waste goes in paper bags or 32-gallon containers, never plastic bags, weekly from March to mid-December and only in the second full week of January and February. Collections falling on or after New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving or Christmas are delayed a day. The page repeats that large item removal carries a minimum fee of $70.00 with additional charges based on material volume, all fees paid in advance, and that the service "does not include appliances or items requiring more than two people to lift". Source Not confirmed: The page does not say what "additional charges based on material volume" means above the three published load prices.
• Belleville operates no drop-off site, and its sanitation page names none. The City collects through its own Public Works-Sanitation Department at 618-233-6816, requires that "All trash must be bagged and must fit inside a trash toter or can with the lid closed", and states that "Yard Waste, Tires and Building Materials are NOT accepted inside toter" - the only alternatives it offers are the paid large item reservation and, for yard waste, Kraft paper bags or marked cans. There is no city yard, transfer station, convenience center or residents' dump day, and no city clean-up amnesty week. St. Clair County likewise runs nothing itself: its Health Department's landfill sheet names two privately operated sites with public drop-off areas, Milam Recycling & Disposal Facility at 601 Madison Road, East St. Louis and Cottonwood Hills Recycling & Disposal Facility at 10400 Hillstown Road, Marissa, and tells residents only that "a fee does apply" and to "contact the landfill to inquire about disposal fees before you go". Neither operator publishes a rate card or a mattress fee, so on published terms the City's $70 minimum load is the only priced route out of Belleville. Source Not confirmed: No Metro East landfill on either side of the river publishes a gate rate or a mattress fee, so the cost of self-hauling a mattress from Belleville could not be established at all.
• The nearest Habitat ReStore to Belleville is Lewis & Clark Habitat for Humanity's store at "1950 Vandalia St. Collinsville, Illinois 62234", about fifteen miles north, open for shopping Wednesday through Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday 10am-4pm and for donations Wednesday through Friday 10am-5pm and Saturday 10am-3pm, closed Sunday through Tuesday, at 618-660-6243 or donations@LCReStore.org. The store refers donors to a downloadable donation guidelines document, but that document is not reachable from the published link, and no accepted or refused list appears on the page itself. Nothing published by the affiliate names mattresses, box springs or bedding either way, so a Belleville household cannot establish from the store's own material whether a mattress would be taken. Source Not confirmed: Lewis & Clark Habitat's donation guidelines PDF returns HTTP 404, so its mattress policy could not be read. Not confirmed: Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis, whose ReStore also serves St. Clair County, publishes no accepted/not-accepted list on its donation page either.

• Residential body says Saturday 8–2; same-page footer says 9–1. Both show weekdays 8–4. No Saturday schedule selected. Source
• Locator retains Landfill 33 Saturday 7 a.m.–11 p.m. exactly as printed; implausible closing time requires confirmation. Two Columbus District Office cards are distinct OH and IN addresses, not duplicates. Source
• Illinois EPA recycling page offers a 'Beyond The Bin' ArcGIS map of recycling locations, an Earth911 ZIP locator and the Recycle Coach app (statewide partnership since 2025). No mattress stewardship program mentioned. No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on Illinois EPA pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments. Source
• There is no state mattress recycling program in Illinois, and the absence is worth stating plainly because the four states that have one give residents free drop-off. The Mattress Recycling Council, which runs the Bye Bye Mattress collection network, lists its programs on its own Programs page as operating in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island. Illinois is not among them. Three things follow for an Illinois resident: no recycling fee is charged on an Illinois mattress sale, there is no MRC-funded free drop-off anywhere in the state, and nothing obliges a retailer, hauler or municipality to recycle a mattress rather than landfill it. Recycling in Illinois is therefore a private arrangement wherever it exists at all — the drop-offs and recyclers listed on this page are businesses and charities choosing to do it, not a program a resident is entitled to. Source