How to get rid of a mattress in Fairview Heights, 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.

• Fairview Heights is one of the few Illinois cities whose ordinance names a mattress-shaped problem directly: leaving indoor upholstered furniture outdoors is a misdemeanour, and the code writes its own curbside exception. Sec. 25-1-1(U), added by Ord. No. 1660-14 in 2014, provides that "No person shall place, use, keep, store or maintain outdoors any indoor upholstered furniture not manufactured for outdoor use, including, but not limited to, upholstered chairs and couches, except when said indoor upholstered furniture is place at the curb to be removed the night prior to large item pickup, or when said furniture is placed outdoors as part of the lawful garbage sale or other sale". "Indoor upholstered furniture" means "any furniture constructed with stuffing or cushions or springs, not intended for outdoor use" - which describes a mattress and a box spring - and "outdoors" means "any place visible from a public place and exposed to precipitation, including but not limited to yards, rooftops, and unenclosed porches, decks, patios, and balconies". A property owner or manager may not "permit indoor upholstered furniture to remain outdoors on such real property after it has been placed there in violation of this Section". The penalty: "Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate or permit violation of any provision of this Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). Each day the violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense." So the set-out window in Fairview Heights is set by ordinance rather than by the hauler: the night before a booked large item pickup, and no earlier. The same nuisance section also covers the aftermath - Sec. 25-1-1(M) makes it a nuisance "To permit the deposit, accumulation or piling up of any rags, old rope, paper, iron, brass, copper, tin, aluminum, ashes, plastic, brush, litter, weeds, slush, lead, glass bottles, building materials, furniture, appliances, carpeting, broken glass, or other rubbish/garbage upon any lot, piece or parcel of land or upon any public or private alley, street or public way within the City", and Sec. 25-1-1(K) makes it unlawful "to allow rubbish/garbage, paper, cardboard, wire, dirt, rock, stone, glass, brick, lumber, wood or litter of material objects of any size or description to fall or be thrown upon City streets." Source Not confirmed: The ordinance assumes a large item pickup exists but neither it nor the City publishes when one happens or how to book it, so the lawful set-out window can only be used by someone who has already arranged a collection with Aspen.
• If a Fairview Heights household would rather not pay Aspen an unpublished bulk price, the self-haul answer is a county one and St. Clair County publishes it. The Health Department's Pollution Prevention page states "Illinois landfills will not accept tires, white goods (water heaters, refrigerators etc.), household hazardous wastes or liquid paint. If you are unsure if your item will be accepted please contact the landfill to inquire before dropping it off" - mattresses are not on that list - and names the two licensed sites in the county: "Milam Recycling & Disposal Facility, 601 Madison Road, East St. Louis, IL 62201, Hours: Mon.-Fri. 3 am- 5pm, Sat. 5 am- 12pm, (618) 271-6788" and "Cottonwood Hills Recycling & Disposal Facility, 10400 Hillstown Road, Marissa, IL 62257, Hours: Mon.-Fri. 5 am-4 pm, (618) 295-2809". Milam is roughly ten miles west of Fairview Heights and is the nearer of the two. The county's first instruction is the one that sends a Fairview Heights resident back to Aspen: "Contact your City Hall or Village Hall to find out if they offer trash service in your area. Otherwise you may have to contract with a private hauler for weekly trash pick up." Source Not confirmed: No gate rate is published for either landfill, so a self-haul mattress has no established price. Not confirmed: No proof-of-residency or county-of-origin rule is published for either site.
• Not an option: The township that covers the western half of Fairview Heights runs nothing that would take a mattress, which settles the question a Granite City resident would ask. Caseyville Township's own Township Services page lists what it offers in full: "Copies/Faxes; Homestead Exemption Filing for Property Owners; Senior Tax Freeze Filing Help; Benefit Access Program Filing for license plate sticker and public transit discounts (Age and/or Disability and Income requirements); Caseyville Township Sewer Payments accepted; Hall Rental available to Caseyville Township Residents. We have two (2) large and one (1) small hall available to rent. Our rates are very reasonable.; Nine (8) Youth ball fields, (3) fields with lights (1) Tee ball field; are available for rent; Senior Citizens Center Activities: Senior Bingo, Line Dancing and much more.; Home to numerous local organizations; Host to AARP Free Tax Preparation for Seniors and Low Income residents." Its other pages are a Highway Department, a sewer system and meeting agendas. There is no clean-up day, no large item pickup, no dumpster day and no drop-off site of any kind. So the Nameoki Township model in Madison County - a free twice-yearly large item pickup that names mattress sets - has no counterpart for Fairview Heights. 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