How to get rid of a mattress in Geneseo, IL.

If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.

Casper

Free

Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. Source

Purple

Free

Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source

Raymour & Flanigan

Free

New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source

Rooms To Go

Free

New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Geneseo and its neighbors.

• Henry County has a solid waste coordinator and no solid waste service. The county's Zoning & Building page states that the department “is responsible for development and implementation of several land use management programs in the unincorporated areas of the county” and then, in a single line, that “The Department also serves as the Henry County Solid Waste and Recycling Coordinator. Please call for availability.” The contact is Kyle Stromquist, Henry County Zoning & Building Officer, 307 West Center Street, Cambridge, IL 61238, 309-937-3419, Monday through Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm, with the note “Call for inspector availability.” The department's own document list runs to a Flood Plain Ordinance, Forms & Applications, a Solid Waste Management Ordinance, a Subdivision Ordinance and a Zoning Ordinance — a coordinator's paperwork, not a program. Henry County publishes no county drop-off site, no county collection of bulky items, no recycling center, no clean-up or amnesty day and no fee schedule of any kind. For a resident of Kewanee or Geneseo with a mattress, the county layer is empty and the answer lies with the town or with a landfill in a neighboring county. Source Not confirmed: No county bulky-item collection, drop-off site or clean-up event is published anywhere on the Henry County site, and its A-Z site map lists none. Not confirmed: The county's Solid Waste Management Ordinance is served as a scanned PDF with no extractable text, so its contents — including any rule about where household waste must go — could not be read.
• Not an option: Henry County's own recycling processor does not answer the mattress question either. Eagle Enterprises Recycling, Inc., based in Galva, publishes an FAQ whose bulky exceptions run to appliances — it will take “stoves, washing machines, dryers, and hot water heaters” and refuses anything with Freon, naming “refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, and humidifiers” — and it requires electronics to be brought to the facility rather than left at the curb, during hours of “Monday-Friday 6:00 am - 4:30 pm Saturday 7:00 - 11:00 am”. Odd items such as children's play sets are judged case by case. Mattresses, bedding and furniture are named nowhere, accepted or refused, and no price is published for anything; the FAQ directs inquirers to contact the company for cost. Source Not confirmed: The FAQ publishes no street address and no fee, and names neither mattresses nor furniture, so nothing here meets the standard for listing a drop-off.
• The Illinois EPA's own county attributions for this corner of the state come from the Region Three volume of its landfill capacity series: “The counties of Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Knox, Marshall, McDonough, Mercer, Peoria, Rock Island, Stark, Tazewell, Warren and Woodford are located in Region Three: Peoria/Quad Cities.” It records Atkinson Landfill as “County Henry, Municipality Atkinson, Location 137 Commercial Dr.”, owned and operated by Atkinson Landfill Co. of Chicago; Knox County Landfill #3 as “County Knox, Municipality Oneida, Location 996 Knox Road 2150 North” with the footnote “This landfill is owned and operated by Knox County (Landfill Committee of the Knox County Board)”; and Envirofil of Illinois Inc. as “County McDonough, Municipality Macomb, Location 13998 E. 1400th St.”, with the footnote “A subsidiary of Waste Management Inc. Midwest”. Read against the 2025 report, which no longer lists Atkinson, this places every currently active landfill within reach of Henry County outside it. Source Not confirmed: This volume is the 2012 edition and is used here only for county attribution and ownership, not for current capacity, fees or operating status.
• There is no longer an active permitted landfill in Henry County. Illinois EPA's Landfill Capacity Report of July 2025 (IEPA/BOL/IL-2025-001) reports that “During calendar year 2024, 35 permitted landfills in Illinois reported receiving a total of 46,706,738 cubic yards of solid waste”, and names all seven in Region 3, the Peoria/Quad Cities region that contains Henry County: Eco Hill, Envirofil of Illinois Inc., Indian Creek Landfill No. 2, Knox County Landfill #3, Peoria City/County Landfill #2, Quad Cities Landfill Phase IV and Upper Rock Island County Landfill. Atkinson Landfill, at 137 Commercial Dr., Atkinson, which the same series of reports recorded as Henry County's landfill taking more than 111,000 tons in 2012, is not among them. The nearest of the seven with a published household rate is Knox County's, at Oneida. Source Not confirmed: The 2025 report lists landfills by name and region only; it does not print counties, so the county of each Region 3 site comes from the 2012 edition of the same report.
• What Henry County does run on solid waste is enforcement, and it reaches only the part of the county no city governs. The Henry & Stark County Health Department's Solid Waste & Nuisance page sets its remit as investigating nuisance violations “in unincorporated areas”, naming “Accumulation of junk and/or debris” and “Unlawful dumping of rubbish, garbage or refuse” among them, and it points to the Henry County and Stark County Solid Waste Ordinances as the instruments. It is explicit about what it does not do — mold, asbestos, mobile home parks, swimming facilities and pests inside homes are all excluded. The Kewanee office is at 309-852-0197, Monday through Friday 8AM to 4PM. This matters for a mattress only in the negative: the county's involvement begins when one is dumped, not before, and nothing here offers a resident of an incorporated town such as Kewanee or Geneseo a place to take one. Source Not confirmed: The department's page carries no disposal advice, no facility list and no fee, and the linked ordinance PDFs were not readable.