How to get rid of a mattress in Collinsville, 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.

• The numbers Chapter 8.08 leaves to Title 4 are published, and they set the baseline a Collinsville household already pays before any bulk charge. Sec. 4.01.010 lists under Utilities, "Garbage collection fees. Per month per household unit, payable bi-monthly with water/sewer bill (effective 1/1/25) - $17.32 (8.08.010)" and "Per month per household unit with up to two (2) persons over age 65, payable bimonthly with water/sewer bill (effective 1/1/25) - $13.16 (8.08.020)". The same title fixes what dumping costs: under the fines, "Any person, firm or corporation who shall be found guilty of violating any provision of the Nuisance Chapter. - Not more than $750.00 per offense (8.12.020)". So a Collinsville resident pays $17.32 a month for a service that includes two bulk pickups a year, pays a minimum of $50 for a third, and risks up to $750 for leaving a mattress where it should not be. Source Not confirmed: Title 4 lists no bulk-pickup or large-item fee of its own: the $50 bulk minimum and $30 appliance minimum are Republic Services charges published by the city, not rates set by ordinance. Not confirmed: The nuisance fine is a maximum with no stated minimum and no separate illegal-dumping schedule.
• The only public drop-off in Collinsville is a recycling station that will not take a mattress, and residents should know that before loading a truck. The city describes it plainly: "In an effort to provide recycling access to those who do not have curbside service, Madison County Planning and Development Department has located a recycling station next to Collinsville Parks and Recreation Activity Center - 10 Gateway Drive, Collinsville, IL. Items such as paper, glass, plastics, and metals can be recycled in the drop-off station. This service is free for all Collinsville and Madison County Residents. Please read the directions on the station prior to use to minimize contamination. Please do not dump materials outside of the station if it is full. The station is collected by Republic Services M-W-F weekly." Containers and paper only - no furniture, no bedding, and an express instruction not to leave anything beside it. For electronics the city points to Power Recycling at 9200 Collinsville Road, at 618-344-7232, after that company stopped its monthly mobile drives in January 2025. The city runs no transfer station, no landfill and no bulky-waste drop-off, and Sec. 8.08.030(C) of the code makes the contracted curbside service the only lawful method of household refuse disposal in any event. Source Not confirmed: No landfill or transfer station serving Collinsville publishes a household gate rate or a per-mattress price. Not confirmed: Whether a Collinsville household may lawfully self-haul a mattress at all is unresolved, given Sec. 8.08.030(C).
• Collinsville's own ReStore - the one most of the Metro East is sent to - refuses mattresses in writing, and it is worth knowing before a wasted trip across town. Lewis & Clark Habitat for Humanity's ReStore is in The Orchards at 1950 Vandalia Street, Collinsville, Illinois 62234, and its donation page states "No sofa bed, mattresses, or box springs." Donations are accepted "Wed-Fri: 10am - 5pm Saturdays: 10am - 3pm", and the store is "Closed: Sun - Tues". It does take furniture such as tables, chairs and dressers, plus housewares, cabinets, appliances, tools, flooring, doors, lighting, plumbing fixtures and building materials, but only "New or Gently Used Items In Clean, Usable Condition, and Complete Working Order Free of dirt, mold, mildew, or water damage", and its furniture standard excludes anything with "No mold, water damage, structural damage. No tears, pet hair, odors, or stains". Clothes, fabrics including sheets and comforters, baby and toddler items, dishwashers, windows and residential paint are also refused. Every Habitat ReStore checked across the Metro East, the Quad Cities and central Illinois either refuses mattresses outright or publishes no policy at all; none accepts them. Source Not confirmed: No Collinsville charity, shelter or thrift shop publishes a policy of accepting mattresses, so a mattress in excellent condition has no established local reuse route - unlike Urbana, where the city names three charities that take them.
• The nearest dedicated mattress recycler to the Metro East is across the river in Missouri, and it publishes no price - so for a Collinsville household there is still no mattress recycling with terms you can rely on. The City of St. Louis's own recycling program, Saint Louis City Recycles, handles bedding in two parts. For reuse it names "Home Sweet Home" and "The Salvation Army" as taking mattresses "in good condition" in "Twin, full, and queen" sizes but not king, with "Please call them to arrange a pick-up" - both are St. Louis city and county operations, not Illinois ones. For a mattress past reuse it names one facility: Earthbound Recycling at Eureka, Missouri, which "Accepts mattresses for recycling for a fee", with the requirement "you must deliver them to their facility", and the instruction "Please call them directly for hours of operation and disposal fees" on "(636) 938-1188". Earthbound's own site says it is "located in Eureka, MO", open "9-5 Monday thru Saturday", accepts "179 different types of material" with "ALL Major Credit and Debit Cards Accepted for Recycling Fees" - but its published service pages describe metals, paint, chemicals, electronics, batteries, bulbs, cardboard and single-stream recycling, and name neither mattresses nor box springs, and publish no price for either. So the one named mattress recycler in the St. Louis metro is roughly forty miles from Collinsville, is in another state, requires you to deliver, and does not publish what it charges. Nothing on the Illinois side recycles a mattress: Illinois is not a mattress-stewardship state, runs no statewide program, and no Illinois mattress recycler with an address and published household terms has been established in any city researched so far. Source Not confirmed: Earthbound Recycling publishes no mattress price and does not name mattresses or box springs on its own accepted-materials pages; the acceptance is stated only by the City of St. Louis, so no rate can be recorded and the facility cannot be listed on the standard this project applies. Not confirmed: Whether Earthbound accepts mattresses generated in Illinois is not published either way - a real question given how often out-of-state sites restrict by county or state of origin.

• 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