How to get rid of a mattress in Chester, 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.

• Chester contracts one hauler for the whole city, and its tote rules exclude large furniture outright. The City's Trash page states: "Beginning June 1, 2017, City of Chester has a contract with Quivey Sanitation, Inc. for residential trash pick up. Residential trash is picked up on different days (Mon., Tues., Thurs., or Fri.) in different areas throughout the city. Please contact 826-5114 to see which day your trash should be picked up. Please put your trash tote out the night before your scheduled pickup day. Quivey requests that all trash be bagged as much as possible." Only two holidays are observed — New Year's Day and Christmas Day. On anything beyond the tote: "If an additional tote is needed please call 826-5114 to request another tote at an additional charge a month. You may contact Quivey at 618-317-6790 to schedule and pay for additional pickups, or for dumpster rental." The exclusion list is explicit: "Unacceptable trash in your tote: electronics, roofing, building materials, yard waste, tires, appliances, large furniture, ash, paint cans (with paint, if it has paint it must be dried), shingles, bricks, concrete." Quivey also "provide[s] door service to handicapped/disabled or elderly residents when necessary." Source Not confirmed: "Large furniture" is excluded from the tote but mattresses are not named, so whether a mattress is treated as large furniture is not established. Not confirmed: The price of an additional pickup from Quivey is not published — the city says only to contact Quivey to schedule and pay for one. Not confirmed: The additional-tote monthly charge is not published. Not confirmed: No outcome (landfill or recycling) is published for anything Quivey collects. Not confirmed: No wrapping rule or illegal-dumping penalty was read from the city site.

• 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