How to get rid of a mattress in Carterville, 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.

• A second City of Carterville page names a different trash contractor, and the disagreement is worth knowing before a resident makes a call. The City's Utilities page lists, under “TRASH & RECYCLE (Set-up & billed through Carterville Water Department)”: “Republic Services, 716 Skyline Drive, Marion, IL 62959, P│800-634-0215”. Under “RECYCLING” it lists “Progress Port, 1120 N Division St., Carterville, IL 62918, P│618-985-8351”, and under “WATER, SEWER, & TRASH” it gives “City of Carterville Water Office, 101 S. Division St., Carterville, IL 62918, P│618-985-2011”. The City's separate Waste & Recycle page says instead that “The City of Carterville is under contract with SI Waste Containers for all residential trash services inside the city limits”. Both pages agree on the one thing that matters operationally - trash is set up and billed through the Carterville Water Department at 618-985-2011 - so that is the number a resident should use whichever firm holds the contract. Source Not confirmed: The two City pages name different contractors and neither is dated, so the current contractor is not established. Not confirmed: Neither page states any bulky-item, large-item or mattress terms.
• Not an option: The recycling center Carterville sends its residents to publishes a closed list, and a mattress is not on it. Progress Port Recycling Center's own information sheet, hosted by the City of Carterville, opens “Below is a comprehensive list of items that we accept at the Recycling Center” and then gives sixteen numbered items: aluminum cans; steel/tin cans (please rinse out); miscellaneous metals; newspaper and inserts; magazines and catalogs; office paper; shredded paper; junk mail; cardboard and boxboard; books, soft and hard cover; telephone books; #1 to #7 plastics; plastic bags, stretch film and bubble wrap; plastic and wooden pallets; clear, brown and green glass; and used toner cartridges. Hours are “Monday - Friday 7:30a-4:00p, Saturday 9a-12n” with “24 hour, 7 day a week bins available for drop off”, and the center is “bonded to provide shredding services”, on 985-8351 extension 1. Because the list is described as comprehensive, furniture, mattresses and bulky waste are excluded by it. This is a containers-paper-and-metal site and it is not an answer for a bed. Source Not confirmed: The sheet publishes no address on its face; the street address 1120 North Division Street, Carterville comes from the City's own pages. Not confirmed: No fee schedule is published, and none would apply to a mattress since it is not accepted. Not confirmed: The sheet is undated.

• 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