How to get rid of a mattress in Elk Grove Village, 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 curbside timing rules for a bulky item in Elk Grove Village are in the code, not only on the web page. Section 4-4-1(A)(3): "It shall be unlawful for any person to place a refuse or garbage container on the public parkway, in any street, alley or public way for the purpose of being emptied, except after the hour of six o'clock (6:00) P.M. on the day prior to the scheduled day of pick up. All containers shall be removed by seven o'clock (7:00) P.M. on the scheduled day of pick up and no such garbage or refuse shall be so placed so that it can be blown about or scattered by the wind." The same subsection requires that on other days "all garbage, refuse and recycling containers shall be kept in the garage or in a reasonable location within the side or rear yard of any lot; no such containers shall be stored or maintained within the front yard area of any lot." The chapter defines trash broadly - "Rubbish includes all other refuse except rocks, concrete, bricks and dirt" - which is how a mattress falls within it. The chapter carries its own penalties section, 4-4-8. Source Not confirmed: Section 4-4-8, which sets the penalty amounts, was not read.
• Elk Grove Village runs no drop-off of its own that takes a mattress, and the self-haul option a resident would reach for is complicated by the Village's own ordinance: section 4-6-3 requires that household waste be disposed of "through the municipal waste system", and the Village states flatly that "Residents may not dispose of their garbage and refuse on their own." Elk Grove Village is a SWANCC member community, and the Agency's transfer station - the site the Village's own waste is contracted to - lies about six miles north-east in Des Plaines and does accept residents' waste at a published price. The Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) runs the Glenview Transfer Station at 3 Providence Way, Des Plaines, IL 60016 - "on the east side of Des Plaines River Road, just north of Central Road, directly across Des Plaines River Road from the Maryville Academy". SWANCC states that "Residents may also bring refuse and debris to the transfer station. You will be required to unload your own vehicle." Its rate card, dated March 1, 2026, prices the awkward item separately from tonnage: "Mattresses and Futons $75.00 per item (box springs charged as regular waste, by weight)", against "Commercial and Residential Waste $100.00 per ton ($25.00 minimum for 500lb. or less)". Access is not limited to member communities for waste - only the Saturday electronics collection is "available ONLY to residents of SWANCC member communities". The practical constraints are the hours and the unloading: Monday through Friday 6-10 AM and 2-3:30 PM, Saturday 6 AM to 12 PM, closed Sunday, because the site "is extremely busy weekdays between 10 am and 2 pm and is CLOSED to residents and contractors during this time". A high-visibility reflective safety vest is required and sold at the scale, payment is by credit card only, and the site is closed on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. A resident should weigh the $75 against a free booked collection a few days later, and against section 4-6-3. Source Not confirmed: The Village does not say whether its required-use ordinance is enforced against a resident who drives their own mattress to the SWANCC transfer station.
• Not an option: Illinois has no statewide mattress recycling program and nothing mattress-specific serves this village. The Mattress Recycling Council, which operates the Bye Bye Mattress network, lists its program states on its own programs page: California, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Oregon and Rhode Island. Illinois is not among them, so there is no state-funded collection site, no recycling fee paid at purchase and no free drop-off to send anyone to. Twenty-four Illinois cities researched before this one turned up no Illinois mattress recycler with a street address and published household terms, and a fresh search for one serving the north-west Cook County suburbs again produced only national junk-removal brokers quoting per-item haul-away prices, which is a removal service rather than a recycling facility and is out of scope. The honest answer for a resident here is that the mattress goes out with the village collection and is landfilled. Source
• Not an option: The closest Habitat ReStore to Elk Grove Village will not take a used mattress. Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley's ReStore Arlington Heights, 955 E. Rand Road, Arlington Heights, IL 60004, about six miles away and open for donations Tuesday through Sunday 10:00am - 5:30pm, publishes a materials acceptance sheet whose "WHAT WE CANNOT ACCEPT" list begins "Used mattresses". Furniture is accepted, with upholstered pieces required to be "in excellent condition-no stains, rips, holes", and the ReStore reserves the right to decline anything it cannot sell "so that ReStore profits are used to build homes, and not pay for disposal fees." 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