How to get rid of a mattress in Glen Ellyn, 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 Ellyn is a sticker village and publishes the current price: "Effective 08/01/26, refuse and yard waste stickers cost $3.52, while leaf stickers cost $1.76." Stickers are sold at the Village of Glen Ellyn Cashier's Office, 535 Duane Street, Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Jewel/Osco at 599 East Roosevelt Road, Glen Ellyn; Jewel/Osco at 2031 Main Street, Wheaton; Len's Ace Hardware at 485 Roosevelt Road; and Pete's Market at 880 Roosevelt Road. They can also be ordered by mail through Groot Industries at (847) 429-7370. The page does not say how many stickers a mattress takes. Source
• Glen Ellyn runs a free clean-out day, but only every other year and not for a mattress on demand. The Village's Unlimited Refuse Collection page describes a biennial Monday collection by Groot Industries for items that cannot be recycled, "including bulk items like furniture and appliances", and names "couches, chairs, lamps, bicycles, appliances, tires (off the rim), etc." among what is accepted. It is limited to single-family residences: "The program also excludes multi-family (townhome residents may participate) and commercial buildings." Items must be at the curb by 7 a.m. on the Monday, containers are limited to 33-gallon cans or trash bags, "All bundles must be no longer than four feet", construction material is capped at "two cubic yards (about eight 33-gallon-sized cans)", paint must be dried out, and yard waste still needs a sticker on each bundle or bag. Electronics, loose concrete and glass, liquids and household hazardous waste are not accepted. The cost of this day is spread across every bill - section 7-6-4(A) of the code charges a Monthly Supplemental Rate covering "branch and brush collection, biennial clean sweep, toter replacement, account/billing administration, and cash reserves for future storm clean up events", set annually by the Finance Director. Source Not confirmed: The page does not name the next Unlimited Refuse Collection date, so a resident cannot tell from it whether waiting for the free day is a realistic alternative to buying a sticker. Not confirmed: The page does not say in terms that a mattress qualifies, though it is furniture and the code classes a mattress as a large household item.
• Not an option: There is no public drop-off in DuPage County that takes a mattress, so a Glen Ellyn resident's choice is a sticker or the biennial clean-out day. The County's recycling page splits its work into "curbside and non-curbside (drop-off) recycling" and the programs it actually runs are electronics recycling at municipal and township sites, clothing and textile recycling partnerships, the Naperville Household Hazardous Waste facility and paint recycling - furniture and mattresses on none of them. For non-curbside material the County points only to its Recycle Coach search tool. No county transfer station, convenience center or residents' drop-off day in DuPage accepts a household mattress. Source
• Not an option: The Habitat ReStore serving Glen Ellyn - DuPage and Chicago South Suburbs Habitat for Humanity at 858 Rte 59, Naperville, IL 60540, donation doors Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. - refuses mattresses. Its donate page takes furniture including "Bookshelves, buffets/sideboards, tables, nightstands, chairs, sofas" and bed frames, along with working appliances, kitchen cabinets, doors, windows, lighting, flooring and building materials, but its published list reads "Items we cannot accept: Cribs; Textiles (clothing, curtains, bedding, linens); Used ladders; Mattresses", plus hazardous chemicals and broken goods. The bed frame is welcome; the mattress is not. Source
• Not an option: Nothing mattress-specific exists for a Glen Ellyn household. Illinois is not a Mattress Recycling Council state and runs no statewide mattress program, so there is no Bye Bye Mattress site. LRP Recycling, the one named mattress recycler that advertises into DuPage, sells only to institutions: its Illinois page is headed "Nationwide Commercial Recycling and Installation for Mattresses, Furniture and Electronics" and is aimed at "Schools, Hotels, Municipalities and the Military". It lists Naperville and Aurora among the communities it serves but publishes no Illinois street address - only 84 October Hill Road Suite 1, Holliston, MA 01746 - no prices and no household terms, so it is not a referral for a resident. 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