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

• East Peoria collects its own trash and flatly will not take a mattress on the weekly route. The Garbage & Recycling Department page sets the rules: "All trash must be in a toter - no additional bags or other containers may be used", a maximum of three toters, cardboard "cut down and placed inside the wheeled cart" rather than used as a container, "Building materials are not accepted", and landscape waste and grass clippings excluded, with residents told to contact Waste Management on 1-800-796-9696. The bulky line is unambiguous: "Bulk items are not allowed (furniture, mattresses, any items that do not fit in the container)." There is no sticker, no tag, no fee schedule and no bookable special pickup: unlike neighboring Pekin, which excludes mattresses from carts but will take one for $10 an item on two weeks' notice, East Peoria offers no paid route at all. The only city collection that takes a mattress is the twice-yearly Cleanup Week. The department is run by Bret Tucker, Garbage and Recycling/Streets Supervisor, brettucker@cityofeastpeoria.com, through Public Works at 309-698-4716, Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 2232 E Washington Street, East Peoria, IL 61611. The separate Mandatory Garbage Toters page adds that "Approved receptacles must be a 48 to 96-gallon toter", that the city "no longer sells or provides garbage containers" so residents lease from Waste Management or buy to city specification, and that "A limit of three toters may be set out for garbage pickup". Source Not confirmed: East Peoria publishes no monthly refuse charge: neither the garbage pages nor the toter pages state what the city service costs a household. Not confirmed: No paid or on-request bulky pickup is published at any price, so outside Cleanup Week a household with a mattress has no city route at all and the city does not say where to take it instead.
• The free landfill load that solves this problem in Peoria is closed to East Peoria, because the county line runs between them - and the facility is emphatic about it. Peoria County's City/County Landfill page says "Peoria Transfer and Recycling Station is open to serve Peoria County residents' waste needs as of June 8, 2026" and runs a Free Load Program: "Residents of Peoria County are eligible to dispose of one load of residential refuse per week at no cost." Mattresses are named on the accepted list - "Only residential waste from your household is included in this program. Accepted items include couches, sofas, chairs, mattresses and desks" - with loads that must not exceed pickup capacity, "All loads must be tarped or tied down", and "Eligible loads must weigh less than 580 pounds." Building materials, construction and demolition debris, roofing, siding, windows and anything structural are not eligible. The gate check is where an East Peoria household fails: "Residents must provide proof of residence to take advantage of this program. Proof of residence includes a current Illinois Driver's License, an Illinois Identification card, or a current picture ID listing a Peoria County address." East Peoria is in Tazewell County, so its residents do not qualify, however close the site is. The station is at 4349 W Southport Rd, Peoria, open "Monday-Friday 7 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Saturday 7 a.m. - 11:30 a.m."; construction debris may be taken there but "Gate rates may vary", with GFL Environmental at (309) 688-0760. Landfill #2 closed in 2025 and Landfill #3 has been pushed back about ten years, with the transfer station standing in. The county also notes the Illinois EPA landfill bans on appliances and white goods, electronics, lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries, mercury-containing products, motor oil, oil-based paints, tires, untreated medical waste and yard waste - mattresses are not among them, so a mattress may lawfully be landfilled in Illinois. Source Not confirmed: No gate rate is published for a paying customer at the Peoria Transfer Station - "Gate rates may vary" is the only published statement - so what an East Peoria resident would pay to drop a mattress there is not established. Not confirmed: No landfill or transfer station in Tazewell County publishes household terms or a per-mattress price: the Indian Creek Landfill at Hopedale, now operated by GFL, publishes no address, hours, accepted-materials list, self-haul policy or rates on its own branch page. Not confirmed: Neither Tazewell County nor the City of East Peoria names any site where a resident may take a mattress.
• The largest donation center in East Peoria refuses mattresses in writing, which settles the reuse question for the city. Goodwill of Central Illinois's East Peoria store at "456 Camp St. East Peoria, IL 61611" publishes what it takes - "Clothing and shoes, Bed linens and curtains, Furniture (dressers, bed frames, tables, chairs), Jewelry, Housewares, including kitchen utensils, Leisure items: books, movies, music (VHS, CD, DVD format), Games, toys, and sports equipment, Stereos, radios, and small electronics" - and what it will not: "TVs, Baby products: high chairs, car seats, etc., Large appliances: stoves, refrigerators, freezers, Mattresses and box springs, Waterbeds or sofa beds". Bed frames yes, mattresses no. The nearest ReStore, Habitat for Humanity Greater Peoria Area at 804 West Main Street, Peoria, publishes an accepted list built around appliances, cabinets, countertops, sinks, lumber, trim, sheet goods, doors and windows and a refusal list that includes "Blankets or stuffed animals", naming mattresses and box springs in neither - so it cannot be relied on either way without ringing (309) 676-8402 first. There is no established local charity in East Peoria that takes a mattress, even in excellent condition. Source Not confirmed: No East Peoria shelter, furniture bank or thrift shop publishes a policy of accepting mattresses, and the city itself names no reuse option. Not confirmed: Habitat for Humanity Greater Peoria Area publishes no mattress policy at all, so its position is unresolved.
• Nothing in East Peoria recycles a mattress. The city's twice-yearly Cleanup Week takes mattresses from the curb, but the Garbage & Recycling Department describes it as a collection of junk and household items, with no mention of dismantling, diversion or recycling, and the city code treats the same material as refuse throughout Title 9, Chapter 2. 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 Peoria, by Tazewell County or by Peoria 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 - downstate included. The city's own Household Waste Disposal Solutions page offers only a Household Waste Chart and a link to the Illinois EPA list of items accepted at "one-day collection events", warning that "Many household items should not be disposed of with regular garbage removal"; none of those events takes bedding. Source Not confirmed: The city's Household Waste Chart is published only as a PDF attachment and could not be read, so whether it names any mattress option is not established. Not confirmed: Whether mattresses collected during Cleanup Week are landfilled or diverted is not published.

• 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