How to get rid of a mattress in Bensenville, 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.

• Bensenville's ordinance backs the guide's timing rule and shows where the refuse charge comes from. Title 6, Chapter 3 (Garbage and Yard Waste), section 6-3-3.C provides that "Residential garbage and yard waste containers may be placed in the parkway or in the alley right of way no earlier than twelve (12) hours prior to the day of pickup; provided they do not obstruct or hinder the flow of traffic, and shall be removed from the parkway or alley right of way no later than twelve (12) hours after the day of pickup" - the twelve-hour window the Village expresses on its service pages as noon Tuesday to noon Thursday. Section 6-3-3.A limits a garbage container to "not less than five (5) nor more than thirty five (35) gallons", and 6-3-2.B makes it unlawful "to deposit in any container for garbage any article or thing but garbage or to deposit in any container for yard waste any article or thing, but yard waste". Section 6-3-5 puts the refuse charge on the water bill - it is "payable at the time of the payment or due date of the water bill as to each piece or parcel of property involved", with the rate itself fixed "by resolution", a ten percent penalty if unpaid after twenty days and service discontinued after a further thirty. Section 6-3-4 makes it unlawful for anyone but the Village's licensed scavenger or the householder to disturb a container or its contents, and section 6-3-6 provides that "It is unlawful for any person to deposit, place, leave or dump any garbage or yard waste material of any kind in or upon any street, sidewalk, alley, sewer, parkway, park or other public or private place in the Village, other than permitted locations." Source Not confirmed: Chapter 3 states no fine amount for the dumping prohibition in 6-3-6; the general penalty provision was not read. Not confirmed: The resolution fixing the residential refuse rate is not published with the code, so the monthly charge could not be established.
• Not an option: The DuPage charity resale route refuses mattresses in writing, which saves a Bensenville resident a drive. Metropolitan Family Services, which runs Treasure House Resale Shop at 497 Pennsylvania Ave., Glen Ellyn (630-469-6907) and the Family Shelter Service Resale Store at 1512 Naper Blvd., Naperville (630-955-9599), publishes a list of what it will not take: "Large or broken appliances, kitchen/ bathroom cabinets, computers and computer accessories/books, used undergarments and bathing suits, mattresses/ bed pillows, baby equipment, exercise equipment, textbooks and encyclopedias, hanging chandeliers, fire arms". It does accept furniture and "Bed and Bath - blankets, comforters, quilts, sheets, pillow cases and shams, towels", and asks donors to "contact the store directly to schedule your donation". Bedding yes, the mattress no. Source Not confirmed: The page publishes no donation hours for either shop.

• 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