How to get rid of a mattress in Glen Carbon, 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.

• Glen Carbon bars both scavenging and dumping. Section 4-3-4 of the village code, "PROHIBITED ACTS AND CONDITIONS", provides: "A. Tampering With Containers Or Contents: It shall be unlawful for any person to molest, remove, handle or otherwise disturb the containers, or contents, which have been placed on or adjacent to the village property or right of way for servicing by the contractor; provided, that this subsection does not apply to the owner, occupant, lessee or tenant of the residence or dwelling so placing the container and contents. B. Windblown Deposits: Refuse shall not be placed so that it can be moved about or scattered by the wind or elements. C. Combustible Conditions: No person shall place in any container or dump any material on any private property which may be likely to take fire, be set afire or cause a fire. D. Unlawful Disposal: No person shall dump any garbage, refuse, ashes or other waste material of any description on public property. All such material shall be deposited at an approved or licensed landfill." Section 4-3-5 separately makes it unlawful "to store or dump, or cause to be stored or dumped, any landscape waste on any public or private property" except at a licensed facility, a public compost site, the site where it was cut, or a location designated by the Director of Public Works. Source
• The penalty for a Glen Carbon refuse or dumping violation is set by cross-reference, not by a figure in the chapter. Section 4-3-7 reads in full: "Any person convicted of violating any provision or section of this chapter shall be punishable as provided in section 1-4-1 of this Code for each occurrence. Each separate day a violation occurs shall be considered a separate offense." The per-day multiplier is the operative risk: a mattress left at the curb outside the 24-hour window, or dumped on public property, accrues a fresh offense every day it stays there. Source Not confirmed: Section 1-4-1, which carries the actual fine range, was not read; the amount could not be established from the chapter or from search.
• Glen Carbon runs no drop-off site of any kind, and nothing mattress-specific. The Village's Recycling Services page publishes only a Republic Services collection calendar - "2026 Recycling Services (B Week)" - and directs residents to "contact Republic Services directly at 618-656-6883 or visit RepublicServices.com for more information". No village yard, transfer station, compost site, convenience center, residents' drop-off day or amnesty event is named anywhere on the Village's waste pages; the only services published are curbside collection and the four free bulk pickups. A Glen Carbon resident who wants to haul a mattress themselves is directed to no municipal facility at all. Source Not confirmed: The village names no alternative facility, so the nearest public drop-off for a Glen Carbon resident is not published by the village.
• Jarvis Township, which covers Glen Carbon and Troy, runs no large-item program - so the Nameoki Township model found at Granite City does not repeat here. The township's own site lists its offices and services as Supervisor, Assessor's Office, Road Commissioner and Road District, Clerk, assistance programs and the Township Board, along with meeting notices. The only maintenance work described is "oil & chip" road surfacing. No waste collection, dump, clean-up day, dumpster day or large-item pickup appears anywhere on the township site. For a Glen Carbon resident, the township layer adds nothing: the village's four free bulk pickups are the whole free route. Source Not confirmed: The township publishes no waste page at all, so the absence is established from what the site lists rather than from a statement that it provides no such service.

• 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