How to get rid of a mattress in Bethalto, 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.

• Bethalto's own code, Chapter 16 (GARBAGE), sets the rules a resident putting a mattress at the curb is bound by, and it is not the hauler's handout that carries the penalty. Sec. 16-2-1 has the village "collect and receive in advance from residents in the Village a charge... for the collection and disposal of their garbage, trash, and other refuse", and Sec. 16-2-2 has the village contract a single "official garbage and refuse collector". Sec. 16-1-11 requires the licensed collector to keep "a truck for the disposal of large or unusual items of rubbish which cannot be placed in the designated containers" available "at least one (1) day each week or on such additional days as may be necessary to satisfy the needs of the public". "RUBBISH" is defined in Sec. 16-1-1 to include "wood furniture, bedding". Sec. 16-2-3 states "Garbage and trash shall not be stored at the curb line prior to the date of pick up". Sec. 16-2-5 makes it "unlawful for any owner, occupant, or any person to dump or store garbage, trash, landscape waste, or waste in any open lot, street, yard, or other place in the Village", and says "Any violation of this Chapter shall be a nuisance and punishable as provided in Chapter 25 and as set out in Section 1-1-20 of this Code." Sec. 16-2-10 requires that "All containers placed at curbside for garbage, recycling materials or landscape waste shall be retrieved from curbside at each resident's address within twenty-four (24) hours after the container has been picked up". Sec. 16-1-13 limits collection to "between the hours of 6:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M., Monday through Saturday" in and within 250 feet of residential districts. Source
• The money behind Bethalto's dumping rules is published. Sec. 1-1-20(A) of the Bethalto code, "IMPOSITION OF PENALTY - General Penalty", reads: "Any person convicted of a violation of any section of this Code shall be fined not less than Seventy-Five Dollars ($75.00) nor more than Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00) for any one (1) offense. Any person convicted of an additional violation(s) of the same article or section of this Code shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each offense." Sec. 1-1-20(C) adds that "All municipal ordinance offenses may be satisfied without a court appearance by written plea of guilty and payment of the minimum fine, plus court costs, unless a court appearance is required by the ordinance violated." Chapter 25 (Nuisances) separately declares it a nuisance, at 25-1-1(R), "To deposit or pile up any rags, old rope, paper, iron, brass, copper, tin, aluminum, used lumber, derelict truck trailers, camping trailers, or boats, appliances, construction materials, demolition debris, ashes, garbage, refuse, plastic, brush, litter, weeds, slush, lead, glass bottles or broken glass upon any residential home lot, piece or parcel of land or upon any public or private alley, street or public way within the Village", and at 25-1-1(Z) to keep outside a closed building "used appliances, used or dilapidated furniture, bathroom fixtures, tires, old iron or metal... for longer than a two-week time period". Chapter 25 carries the note "[See Section 1-1-20 for General Penalty]". Source
• Not an option: The township route that works in Nameoki does not exist here: Wood River Township, which covers Bethalto, runs no trash service of any kind. Its own Trash page says in full that "Wood River Township does not provide trash services", and that "The residents of the unincorporated areas of Cottage Hills, the same areas as FH-CH Sewer System services, are responsible for setting up their own household waste provider." The township office keeps only a list of haulers a resident may call - Aspen at 314-890-9820, Republic at 618-656-6883 and a local hauling firm - and offers no collection, no clean-up day and no drop-off. A Bethalto resident therefore has the village's own Republic contract and nothing else from the township layer of government. Source

• 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