How to get rid of a mattress in Edwardsville, 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.

• The price of getting it wrong in Edwardsville is set by the general penalty, because Chapter 98 has no fine of its own: Sec. 98-10 says "Any person, firm or corporation who violates the provisions of this chapter shall be fined as provided in section 1-10," and Sec. 1-10 reads "Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Code, for which no penalty is otherwise provided, shall be fined not more than $750.00. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues." That daily-offense clause is what turns a mattress dumped at the curb, or left out days before a booked pickup, into a compounding charge rather than a single ticket. Source
• Edwardsville Township runs no bulk pickup of its own, so the Nameoki Township arrangement ten miles west in Granite City - a free Republic Services large-item pickup twice a year that names "mattress sets" - does not repeat here. The township's own site names three offices, the Township Supervisor, the Township Assessor and the Township Highway Commissioner, and the only waste service it points residents to is the Madison County Household Hazardous Waste Collection Site, described as taking "items that should not be placed in regular trash" to protect "public health, the environment, and local waterways." No trash, bulk item, large item or clean-up collection is offered or advertised by the township or its highway department, whose office is reachable at 618-288-9331. For an Edwardsville household the city's own four free large item pickups are the route, not the township. Source Not confirmed: The township highway department publishes no page of its own listing services, so the absence of a bulk program rests on the township site naming none; a service offered only by telephone would not appear.
• There is nowhere in Edwardsville to take a mattress yourself. The city runs no transfer station, no drop-off yard, no landfill and no residents' drop-off day for bulky waste: the Waste Collection & Recycling page lists exactly four services - "TRASH PICKUP," "RECYCLING," "YARD WASTE COLLECTION," and "LARGE ITEM PICKUP" - all of them curbside, all of them run by Republic Services. The only Edwardsville drop-off points the city names are the Madison County household hazardous waste collection site, open "first Saturday and third Friday monthly" by appointment through recycling@madisoncountyil.gov, and the county's electronic waste events, which run several times a year; neither takes furniture or bedding. A mattress here is a collection problem, not a haulage problem, which is the point of the four free pickups - and Sec. 98-8 of the city code makes an uncovered self-haul unlawful in any case. Source Not confirmed: No published gate rate exists for a mattress at any landfill or transfer station serving Edwardsville; the nearest permitted municipal landfill to the Metro East that publishes any household terms could not be established. Not confirmed: Madison County's sustainability pages list recycling and hazardous-waste events but publish no bulky-waste or mattress drop-off for county residents.
• Nothing in Edwardsville recycles a mattress. The city's four free large item pickups take "mattress sets" but the page says nothing about dismantling, diversion or recycling, and the collection is a Republic Services disposal run. No dedicated mattress recycler, no MRC or Bye Bye Mattress collection site, no manufacturer or retailer take-back and no city or county mattress program is named by the City of Edwardsville, by Edwardsville Township or by Madison County. Illinois is not a mattress-stewardship state and operates 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. The nearest facility anyone in the Metro East is pointed to is across the river in Missouri and is covered separately; on the Illinois side of Madison County there is no mattress recycling at any price. Source Not confirmed: Whether the mattresses collected on Edwardsville's large item pickups are landfilled or diverted is not published by the city or by Republic Services.
• The obvious Metro East reuse outlet will not help an Edwardsville household: Lewis & Clark Habitat for Humanity's ReStore, twelve miles south in Collinsville, refuses bedding in writing - "No sofa bed, mattresses, or box springs." The store is in The Orchards at 1950 Vandalia Street, Collinsville, Illinois 62234, taking donations "Wed-Fri: 10am - 5pm Saturdays: 10am - 3pm" and "Closed: Sun - Tues". It does take furniture, housewares, cabinets, appliances, flooring, doors, lighting and plumbing fixtures, provided they are "New or Gently Used Items In Clean, Usable Condition, and Complete Working Order Free of dirt, mold, mildew, or water damage", and its furniture bar excludes anything with "tears, pet hair, odors, or stains". Clothes, fabrics such as sheets and comforters, baby and toddler items, dishwashers, windows and residential paint are refused too. No Edwardsville charity publishes a mattress intake policy, so the free city pickup remains the answer even for a mattress in good condition. Source Not confirmed: A community-run Edwardsville donation directory lists SIUE's International Hospitality Program as taking "twin beds, mattresses, blankets, sheets, towels, wash cloths" by email arrangement, but the program publishes no page, address, hours or terms of its own, so it cannot be relied on. Not confirmed: Savers' community donation center at 303 Homer Adams Pkwy and other Metro East thrift shops publish accepted-item lists that name neither mattresses nor box springs, so they settle the question neither way.

• 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