How to get rid of a mattress in Carlinville, 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.

• Carlinville collects nothing itself: it licenses private collectors — and its code makes each of them keep a large-item truck running once a week. Chapter 16 (Garbage) of the Revised Code of Ordinances defines "RUBBISH" as "combustible trash, including, but not limited to paper, cartons, boxes, barrels, wood, excelsior, wood furniture, bedding; non-combustible trash, including, but not limited to, metals, tin cans, metal furniture, dirt, small quantities of rock and pieces of concrete, glass, crockery, other mineral waste..." — bedding is named in the definition. "16-1-2 LICENSE REQUIRED; FEE. No person shall engage in the business as a residential or commercial collector of garbage and rubbish unless such person shall have first made application to and secured a license from the City and shall have provided proof of insurance required by the City. Commencing on January 1, 2012, an annual fee for a license shall be required to be paid to the City in the amount of One Thousand Six Hundred Fifty Dollars ($1,650.00)... There shall be no limit on the number of licenses to engage in the business as a residential or a commercial collector of garbage or rubbish within the City limits of Carlinville" (Ord. No. 1708; 08-05-13). The provision that matters to a household with a mattress is 16-1-8: "The licensee shall have as additional equipment a truck for the disposal of large or unusual items of rubbish which cannot be placed in the designated containers and shall have available for such pickups such equipment at least one (1) day each week or on such additional days as may be necessary to satisfy the needs of the public." Section 16-1-5 makes it unlawful "to place garbage or rubbish in such a manner as to allow the same to be blown by the wind onto the property of other residents", and 16-1-7 makes garbage left on a premises prima facie evidence against the occupant. Article II concerns only the landfill host fee of $0.45 per cubic yard. There is no city collection, no city drop-off and no city clean-up week in the chapter. Source Not confirmed: The City does not publish which collectors currently hold a license, so the reader cannot be pointed at a named hauler. Not confirmed: The code requires a licensee to run a large-item truck weekly but sets no price for that pickup, and the City publishes no rate schedule; what a Carlinville household pays to have a mattress taken is not established. Not confirmed: The code does not say whether a licensee may refuse a mattress, and mattresses are not named — only "bedding" within the definition of trash. Not confirmed: No city-wide clean-up, drop-off site or bulk allowance is published by the City of Carlinville. Not confirmed: The City's website has no garbage page and its site search for "garbage" returns nothing, so the code is the only city 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