How to get rid of a mattress in Channahon, 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.

• Lakeshore Recycling Systems' own Channahon page publishes a more generous allowance than the Village's, and one qualification that cuts the other way. Under Bulk Collection it states: "LRS will pickup two bulk items every week. Bulk items must be less than 50 lbs. and reasonably maneuvered by one individual. Residents must schedule pickup for bulk items heavier than 50 lbs. and/or requires more than one person to move", and repeats the accepted list including "mattresses (wrap in plastic)" and "carpet (rolled, tied in 4ft. bundles)". Two free bulk items a week, if that is the operative figure, is the most generous allowance found in Will County. The qualification is in the same page's refuse section: "Residents have a the choice of using a 95-, 65, or 35-gallon cart. One additional bag of refuse can be placed curbside for pick-up. The additional bag will be considered your bulk item allowance for the week" - meaning an extra bag of household trash consumes the same allowance a mattress would. Booking for heavier items is with "Environmental Recycling and Disposal at (815) 725-4555". Additional carts are "$6.00 per month". Source Not confirmed: The Village page says bulk items are collected "weekly" without a count and LRS's page says "two bulk items every week"; the two are not reconciled anywhere published, so the exact weekly allowance is not established. Not confirmed: The interaction between the extra-bag rule and the bulk allowance is stated only on the hauler's page and not by the Village. Not confirmed: No fee is published for a bulk item over 50 pounds or one needing two people.
• Channahon's garbage chapter dates from 1972 and sets a 12-hour set-out window that is stricter than most, plus a container rule the modern carts cannot possibly satisfy. Section 50.08: "(A) No garbage or refuse of any kind shall be deposited or placed along, within or within 30 feet of the right-of-way of any public street, road or alley within the corporate limits of the village more than 12 hours prior to its collection by any garbage collection facility or refuse disposal company doing business within the corporate limits of the village. (B) Any garbage or refuse of any kind which shall be placed for collection in containers other than as set forth and provided in this subchapter or prior to the time limits herein provided is hereby declared to be nuisance and subject to the penalties herein set forth." A mattress put out the night before a morning collection is inside that window; one put out on a Saturday for a Wednesday collection is not. Section 50.07 still reads: "All garbage, refuse and ashes for collection by a garbage collection or refuse disposal company shall be placed in metal or plastic containers and covered or sealed. No such container shall have a capacity of less than ten gallons or more than 20 gallons" (Ord. 112, passed 10-2-72) - a limit the Village's own 35, 65 and 95-gallon carts exceed, and which a mattress cannot meet at all. Source Not confirmed: Section 50.07's 10-to-20-gallon container limit contradicts the cart sizes the Village itself issues and cannot be applied to a bulk item; the code has not been amended to match the current program, so which text governs a dispute is not established. Not confirmed: Chapter 50 contains no bulk-item or mattress provision of its own - the bulk terms live only in the Village's contract and its resident-facing pages.
• Channahon publishes an actual figure for what a dumped mattress costs, which is rare. Section 50.99: "Any person, firm, partnership or corporation violating any of the provisions of 50.02 through 50.08 shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $200 and each day that said violation continues shall be construed as a separate violation." The sections that penalty attaches to are the ones a mattress offends: 50.02 uncovered garbage, 50.03 wind-blown refuse, 50.04 deposits on streets, 50.05 consent of owner for placement of garbage, 50.06 disposal, 50.07 containers and 50.08 time of placement. Because each day is a separate violation, a mattress left at the curb outside the 12-hour window accrues. The Village also holds the abatement powers in sections 50.15 to 50.21 - action by the Board of Trustees, notice to the owner, removal by the village at the owner's cost, a lien and foreclosure of the lien. Source Not confirmed: The fine range dates from Ordinance 112 of October 2, 1972 and has not been restated; whether the Village's current general-penalty provision supersedes it was not established.
• Not an option: Nothing in Channahon is mattress-specific, and the Village's FAQ is a complete inventory of what is. Its eleven refuse questions cover missed collections, yard waste preparation, cart replacement, large items, appliances, electronics, the township compactor, Christmas trees, collection days and holidays. The special streams are yard waste ("NO STICKERS ARE REQUIRED"), one appliance a week with 24 hours' notice, quarterly e-waste by appointment with additional fees, township electronics drop-off, paper recycling in the bin in the south parking lot of the Municipal Center at 24555 S. Navajo Drive, and free Christmas tree collection "for the first three (3) weeks following Christmas". A mattress is handled as a bulk item, wrapped in plastic, in the ordinary refuse stream; there is no mattress recycler, no take-back and no diversion program published for Channahon, and Illinois operates no statewide mattress recycling program. Source
• The nearest reuse outlet to Channahon publishes no mattress policy, so a reader cannot rely on it. The Joliet ReStore, Will County Habitat for Humanity's shop at 1395 N Larkin Ave, Joliet (815-714-7100), accepts drop-offs "9 - 3:00 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday" and charges "a $25 pick-up fee" for a collection, with delivery in its service area at "$100 - Within a 10 mile radius". It publishes no accepted or refused item list, only "All donations are subject to staff review and approval before they can be accepted. For this reason, we are unable to approve donation requests over the phone." Habitat ReStores checked elsewhere in Illinois refuse mattresses. Given that Channahon collects a wrapped mattress at the curb at no extra charge on the ordinary weekly service, the reuse route matters mainly for a mattress still good enough to pass on, and no Channahon charity with a published mattress policy was found. Source Not confirmed: No published mattress or box spring policy could be found for the Joliet ReStore. Not confirmed: No Channahon-based thrift shop, shelter or furniture bank with a published mattress policy was found.

• 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