How to get rid of a mattress in Danville, 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.

• Danville's set-out rules and fines are published in the same brochure, under Chapter 52, which regulates solid waste in the city. The most common violations listed are a container placed at the curb before 4:00PM on the day before collection, not removed from curbside by 11:59PM on the day of collection, or not stored in the proper location; a container overflowing or with a lid that will not close; and garbage not bagged or not inside the container. The penalty ladder is a warning on first violation, $50 on a second, $100 on a third, and $100 on a fourth and each after that with no reduction available. If two or more violations occur simultaneously the total fine may not exceed $250, and a fine paid within 10 days is reduced by half. Warning and violation citations are placed on the toter handle and a notice is mailed to the property owner, or to the owner or property manager where the property is a registered rental. Fines are paid to the City of Danville Legal Department, 17 W Main, 2nd floor. Source Not confirmed: The 4:00PM set-out rule is written for containers; the brochure does not state a separate set-out window for a scheduled Large Item or Cleanup Collection.
• Not an option: The Danville Habitat ReStore at 422 N Vermilion St., Danville, open Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., publishes a full list of what it will and will not take, and mattresses are on the refusal side. Its not-accepted column names 'bedding items (waterbeds, metal bed springs, mattresses, box springs, electric beds, or hospital beds)' and 'torn or broken furniture'. It does accept 'beds and bed frames' subject to those exclusions, along with sofas, arm chairs and recliners, appliances, cabinets and building supplies. So the frame can be donated and the mattress cannot — worth knowing before loading a van. 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