How to get rid of a mattress in Crestwood, 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.

• Nothing in Crestwood is mattress-specific. The village's disposal page covers the Republic recycling tote and its two color-coded routes either side of 135th Street, a recycling guide, the Illinois Consumer Electronics Recycling Act and the "Beyond the Bin Map of Residential E-Waste Collection Locations", yard waste, and prescription-medication disposal; no mattress recycler, take-back or diversion program appears on it, and Republic publishes no Crestwood-specific terms. Illinois has no mattress stewardship law, no Bye Bye Mattress collection site, and no Illinois mattress recycler with published household terms has been found across the cities researched for this site. The only nearby facility that names a price for a mattress, Cook County Waste & Recycling in Blue Island at $10 each, is a transfer station, so a Crestwood mattress is headed for landfill by every published route. Source Not confirmed: Neither the village nor Republic publishes what happens to a bulk item collected in Crestwood.
• Not an option: Crestwood has a charity resale shop of its own that takes furniture generously and refuses mattresses in writing. Pass It On Thrift Center, 5435 West 127th Street, Crestwood, Illinois 60418, at (708) 824-0433, a 501(c)(3), states: "Large Items & Furniture: We accept donations of larger items and furniture every day we are open, from 10am to 2pm. Please bring these items to the back of the store, door #1", and for smaller things "We accept donations of miscellaneous items on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10am to 2pm. Simply drive around to the back of the building and continue to door #4 on the east side of the building. A volunteer is available during these posted hours to help you unload." Its exclusion list is explicit: "We do not accept the following: large appliances such as refrigerators and ovens, console TVs, oversized entertainment centers and china cabinets, fax machines, printers, organs, pianos, mattresses and box springs, and baby car seats and cribs." It adds "Please do not drop off donations outside of the hours posted here. We only accept 'sellable' items - not dirty, ripped, broken items. We have the right to refuse items for donation." Receipts are provided on request. The Habitat ReStore at 15441 S Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, already recorded on this site, refuses mattresses too, and Restoration Ministries' south-suburban stores state "We are unable to accept large, older TVs, mattresses, baby car seats, and cribs." Source Not confirmed: No charity serving Crestwood was found that accepts a mattress in any condition; whether the Salvation Army stores further east would take one from a Crestwood household is not addressed by any Crestwood-area 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