How to get rid of a mattress in Crest Hill, 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.

• Crest Hill's nearest transfer station is about four miles south, inside Joliet, and it publishes nothing a household could act on. The WM Joliet Transfer Station, 2850 Mound Rd., Joliet, IL 60436, is listed as open Monday through Friday 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and closed on weekends. The operator's facility listing names only construction and demolition debris and municipal solid waste as accepted material and does not name mattresses. No gate rate, no minimum charge and no per-item price is published, and the listing does not say whether residential self-haul customers are accepted at all, directing inquiries instead to the receiving facility. The City of Crest Hill runs no drop-off site, public works yard or residents' day of its own; the only collection it publishes beyond the curb is the e-waste pickup booked through Republic. Source Not confirmed: Whether a household car or pickup may bring a mattress to the Joliet transfer station, and at what price, is not established on any published page. Not confirmed: Neither WM nor the City publishes a tipping fee, minimum load charge or mattress fee for this site.
• The Habitat ReStore nearest Crest Hill is barely two miles away and it takes no published position on mattresses, which is a worse answer than a refusal because it cannot be relied on either way. Will County Habitat for Humanity's Joliet ReStore is at 1395 N Larkin Ave, Joliet, phone 815-714-7100, with "Drop-Offs 9 - 3:00 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday". Its donations page publishes no accept or refuse list of any kind, saying only that "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." Personal donation pickups carry "a $25 pick-up fee to help off-set driver and our truck operational costs"; corporate donors get complimentary pickup and delivery within ten miles is $100. Mattresses, box springs and bedding appear nowhere as accepted or refused, so a Crest Hill donor has to turn up and find out - and every other Habitat affiliate checked in the Chicago region, including the DuPage/South Suburbs and Lake-McHenry affiliates, refuses mattresses outright. Source Not confirmed: The Joliet ReStore publishes no mattress policy, so its answer cannot be established without contacting the store, which was not done.
• Not an option: Nothing mattress-specific serves Crest Hill. The Will County Land Use Department's own Green Guide recycling-center database, searched on mattresses and box springs, returns three records and none of them is in Will County: Chicago Mattress Company in Chicago, Sharing Connections Furniture Bank in Downers Grove and AMVETS of Illinois, listed statewide with "Call to find the location nearest you". The county publishes no mattress drop-off of its own and no transfer-station mattress fee. Illinois runs no mattress stewardship program and has no Bye Bye Mattress or MRC collection site, and Crest Hill itself publishes no mattress program, no dedicated recycler and no take-back program - the one large item a week on the Republic contract is the whole of the city's answer. Source

• 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