How to get rid of a mattress in Eureka, 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.

• An earlier city page for the same event shows the format is a week, and that the week moves. "Junk drop off week: The week of June 13th-18th from 7am-2pm the city will be holding it's Junk drop off week. For more information just view the atatched document." Eureka runs the event as an annual drop-off week rather than as a curbside route, so a resident has to wait for it or find another option. Source Not confirmed: The attached document the page refers to is not reachable as text, so that year's guidelines could not be read. Not confirmed: The page carries no year, so which year's June 13–18 week it refers to cannot be established from the page.
• Eureka's Public Works department publishes nothing about household refuse. The department page covers only three things - "Wastewater Facilities", "Water System" and "City Maintenance" - and its resource links are the annual water quality report, automatic water payment, paying the water bill, a stormwater credit manual and a water use survey. Public Works is at 1614 S. Main, Eureka, IL 61530, with the Director of Public Works and City Maintenance staff listed at (309) 467-2113. There is no refuse, garbage, recycling or bulk-item page anywhere under the department. Source Not confirmed: The city names no contracted residential refuse hauler and publishes no collection rules, schedule or rate, so there is no published curbside route for a mattress in Eureka. Not confirmed: Eureka's code of ordinances is hosted on Municode but its garbage chapter could not be located in the time available.
• The city's own FAQ page, which it describes as "a living document as we try to address and answer all of the questions we are faced with from day to day", has no question about garbage at all. The questions listed are: boat permits; how to pay a water bill; getting utilities in a yard located; whether a building permit is needed; making a FOIA request; renting the pavilion at the park; starting, stopping or changing the address for water service; who to call to speak with an officer; water disconnection notices; fishing regulations for Lake Eureka; park hours; City Hall office hours; building standards; holidays City Hall observes; pool credits; boil orders; where the water bill is; where the City Building is; and "Why wasn't my brush picked up?". Brush is the only waste stream the city answers for. Source Not confirmed: The city offers "if you don't see your question please feel free to contact us", but publishes no answer on refuse collection, bulk items or mattresses.

• 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