How to get rid of a mattress in East Moline, 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.

• Dumping a mattress in East Moline is a petty offense carrying up to $500 a day, and the ordinance leaves only four lawful ways to put refuse anywhere. Sec. 7-9-3: "No person shall dump, deposit, drop, throw, discard, leave, cause, or permit the dumping, depositing, dropping, throwing, discarding, or leaving of refuse upon any public or private property within the city of East Moline, or upon or into any body of water within the city of East Moline unless: (A) The property has been designated as an authorized waste disposal site by the state of Illinois environmental protection agency. (B) The refuse is placed into a receptacle or other container, as prescribed in section 7-9-5 of this chapter, intended by the owner or tenant in lawful possession of that property for the depositing of refuse. (C) The person is acting under the direction of proper public officials during special cleanup days; or (D) The person is lawfully acting in or reacting to an emergency situation where health and safety is threatened". It closes with the rule that catches fly-tipping into someone else's bin: "No person shall transport refuse from any dwelling, residence, place of business, farm, or other site to deposit such material in, around, or on top of refuse containers on any other property, public or private." Sec. 7-9-10 fixes the penalty: "Any person who violates any provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of a petty offense and shall be fined a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00). Each day's violation constitutes a separate offense." Enforcement runs through the health authority under Sec. 7-9-9, which may serve written notice requiring abatement "within seven (7) calendar days", with an appeal to the city council if a written hearing request is filed in that time, and may otherwise abate the nuisance itself, seek an injunction, or recover its expenses as "a lien upon said property". Sec. 7-9-1.1 requires every waste hauler doing business in the city to register with the health department and to label each dumpster with the owner's name. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 9 sets no set-out window in the ordinance itself - the weekend-prior and 6 a.m. rules come from the city's bulky handout, not from the code - and imposes no wrapping requirement for bedding.
• There is one week a year when an East Moline bulky pickup does not eat into the four-a-year allowance. The city's FAQ answers "When is there a City wide cleanup program?" with "The City, conducts an annual spring cleanup. It is generally held the last week of April. The dates will be posted on the City Calendar and on the City Facebook. More information will be available on the News Flash section." The ordinance confirms its standing: Sec. 7-9-7 provides that "Citywide promotional cleanup campaigns shall not be counted against this limitation", so a collection taken during the citywide cleanup does not use up one of the four $15 collections. That is the practical difference between East Moline and Moline or Rock Island, where the annual allowance is a single free pickup with no separate citywide week. Source Not confirmed: Neither the FAQ nor the ordinance says whether the citywide spring cleanup is free of the $15 charge: Sec. 7-9-7 only exempts it from the four-a-year limit, and the FAQ publishes no terms. Not confirmed: The FAQ does not list what the citywide cleanup accepts, so whether mattresses are included is not established from a published source. Not confirmed: The 2026 dates are published seasonally on the city calendar and news flash rather than on a standing page, and could not be read.
• There is a permitted landfill inside East Moline's own city limits, and it publishes no price - which is the honest answer to where a resident can take a mattress themselves. The Rock Island County Waste Management Agency, the county body that keeps the list, records the Upper Rock Island County Landfill at "17201 - 20th Avenue N. East Moline, IL 61244", telephone "(309) 496-2396 or (800) 555-1614", open "Monday - Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.", where "Municipal solid waste, demolition/construction debris, and asbestos are accepted" and "Illinois non-hazardous waste landfills are not allowed to accept hazardous waste, whole tires, white goods, or materials containing free liquids", with a compost facility and a materials recycling facility taking fibre and commingled recyclables on a fee basis. Against pricing, the agency records only "Call for pricing". The same page lists the Quad Cities Landfill run by Millennium Waste at "13606 Knoxville Road, Milan, IL 61264", (309) 787-2303, open "Monday - Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Saturday, 7:00 a.m. - Noon", taking "Household municipal waste, and demolition debris" with hazardous waste and propane tanks refused - and again "Call for pricing". So both Illinois-side landfills serving the Quad Cities take household waste and neither publishes a household rate, let alone a per-mattress one. The one published per-mattress price in the Quad Cities is across the river: the Waste Commission of Scott County charges "$20 each" for "Mattresses or Box Springs" at the Scott Area Landfill, 11555 110th Avenue, Davenport, Iowa - but that is an Iowa county facility whose only published origin rule is that "Waste generated from anywhere in Iowa other than Scott County can only be accepted with prior approval", and nothing published states that Illinois-generated household waste is accepted at all. It is not a route an East Moline resident can rely on, and the $15 sticker remains the answer. Source Not confirmed: Neither Illinois landfill serving East Moline publishes a gate rate, a minimum charge or a mattress price, so no price can be recorded and neither can be listed as a drop-off on the standard this project applies. Not confirmed: The Scott Area Landfill's published rules address only Iowa-origin waste; whether an Illinois mattress may be brought for $20, with or without prior approval, is not published either way, so it is not recorded as an option for Illinois residents. Not confirmed: Neither the city nor the county names any site where an East Moline resident may take a mattress themselves.
• The Quad Cities' main reuse outlet refuses mattresses in writing, which saves an East Moline household a trip across the river. Habitat for Humanity Quad Cities' ReStore donation guidelines list what the store "Cannot Accept", and bedding is on it: "box springs or mattresses". The store does take furniture subject to condition rules - "non-smoking home, no pet hair, no stains, no rips, no mold or water damage" - plus antiques and appliances "10yrs. old or newer, clean & working", and it refuses air conditioners, clothing, small appliances and hazardous materials. The ReStore is at 3629 Mississippi Ave., Davenport, IA 52807, with donations accepted "Tuesday & Wednesday: 10-3", "Thursday & Friday: 10-6" and "Saturday: 10-3", closed Sunday and Monday. No East Moline charity, shelter or thrift shop publishes a policy of accepting mattresses, so even a mattress in excellent condition has no established reuse route here and belongs on a $15 bulky sticker. Source Not confirmed: No East Moline or Silvis charity publishes a mattress intake policy either way, so a good-condition mattress cannot be placed locally from any published source.
• Nothing in East Moline recycles a mattress, and the city's own handout shows where the line falls. It routes every awkward item to a named recycler except bedding: appliances and white goods and tires go free to Weikert Recycling, batteries, lightbulbs and small electronics to Batteries Plus at 300 Avenue of the Cities, e-waste and household hazardous materials free to the Rock Island County Waste Management Agency site at 5640 Carey Avenue, Davenport, run with the Waste Commission of Scott County, and used motor oil to the sites listed at ricwma.org. A mattress goes on a $15 sticker to landfill. No dedicated mattress recycler, MRC or Bye Bye Mattress collection site, retailer or manufacturer take-back, or city, county or state mattress program is named by the City of East Moline or by Rock Island County. Illinois is not a mattress-stewardship state and runs no statewide mattress program, and across seventy-five Illinois cities researched so far no Illinois mattress recycler with a street address and published household terms has been found. Source Not confirmed: Whether mattresses collected on East Moline's special collections are landfilled or diverted is not published by the city or by Republic Services.

• 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