How to get rid of a mattress in Chillicothe, 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.

• Chillicothe is a city that publishes nothing about collecting a mattress, and its code shows why: the city runs no refuse collection program at all. Chapter 74 (SOLID WASTE) of the Chillicothe code, codified through Ordinance No. 26-02-04 and current to Supplement 94, contains no collection service, no bulk or large item provision, no fee schedule and no set-out window. What it contains is prohibition. Sec. 74-1 defines "Rubbish" to include "bedding". Sec. 74-2 (Dumping) makes it "unlawful for any person to dump, throw, deposit or place within the city any garbage, ashes, manure, offal, or rubbish or any refuse, human waste, junk, nuclear waste or matters or things which could or might become offensive to human beings, detrimental to the health of human beings, or detrimental to the water system of the city, or create or tend to create a nuisance." Article II (Litter Control) adds that "No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street, sidewalk or other public place within the city, except in public receptacles or in private receptacles for collection" (Sec. 74-31), that "No person shall throw or deposit litter on any open or vacant private property within the city, whether owned by such person or not" (Sec. 74-39), and that an owner "shall at all times maintain the private premises or vacant property free of litter" (Sec. 74-41). Sec. 74-42 gives the chief of police power to demand abatement "within five days", after which "the city may proceed to abate such nuisance", charge the cost to the owner and file a lien: "Whenever a bill for such charges remains unpaid for 30 days after it has been rendered, the city may file with the county recorder of deeds a statement of lien claim." Source Not confirmed: Chapter 74 sets no dollar fine for dumping; it provides for abatement at the owner's cost and a lien. The general penalty section of Chapter 1 was not read, so the fine range for a dumping violation in Chillicothe is not established. Not confirmed: The City of Chillicothe's own website, cityofchillicotheil.com, sits behind a Cloudflare bot check that was not bypassed, so any collection or clean-up notice the city publishes there could not be read. The city's secondary domain, cityofchillicotheil.org, carries only a contact stub.
• Chillicothe's utilities chapter confirms the absence rather than filling it. Chapter 98 (UTILITIES) of the city code covers water and sewer in detail - contractor licensing, connections, permits, sewer discharge limits - and carries a solid waste definition ("Solid waste includes garbage, ashes, rags, manure waste, household food, offal and other solids") only for the purpose of what may not enter the sewer: "No butcher's offal, garbage, dead animals or liquids containing silt, hair, fibers, grease, oils or other obstructing material shall be permitted to enter any public sewer system." There is no municipal refuse utility, no refuse charge on the city utility bill and no city hauler contract anywhere in the chapter. Chapter 42 (FEES) is cross-referenced for "fees for utilities, § 42-98", which covers water and sewer. A Chillicothe household therefore arranges its own hauler, and its free route for a mattress is the Peoria County free load program, which it qualifies for as a Peoria County address. Source Not confirmed: Because the city's own website could not be read, it remains possible that Chillicothe runs an unbudgeted clean-up week or hauler arrangement announced only on that site; no evidence of one was found in the code or elsewhere.

• 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