How to get rid of a mattress in Glendale 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.

• Not an option: A Glendale Heights resident cannot take a mattress anywhere in DuPage County themselves. The County's recycling page covers "curbside and non-curbside (drop-off) recycling" and the programs it operates 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 are on none of those lists, and for non-curbside material the County offers only its Recycle Coach search tool. No county transfer station, convenience center or residents' drop-off day in DuPage takes a household mattress, so the only route is the call to Republic Services at an unpublished price. Source
• Not an option: The Habitat ReStore covering Glendale Heights - DuPage and Chicago South Suburbs Habitat for Humanity, 858 Rte 59, Naperville, IL 60540, donation doors Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. - will not take a mattress. It accepts furniture generally, listing "Bookshelves, buffets/sideboards, tables, nightstands, chairs, sofas" as well as bed frames, plus working appliances, kitchen cabinets, doors and windows, lighting, flooring and building materials. But its own refusal list reads "Items we cannot accept: Cribs; Textiles (clothing, curtains, bedding, linens); Used ladders; Mattresses", along with hazardous chemicals, broken items and donations not kept in a weather-protected structure. There is no Habitat route for a Glendale Heights mattress. Source
• Not an option: Nothing mattress-specific serves Glendale Heights households. Illinois is not a Mattress Recycling Council state and runs no statewide mattress program, so no Bye Bye Mattress collection site exists in DuPage County. LRP Recycling, the one named mattress recycler marketing into the area, is commercial only: "Nationwide Commercial Recycling and Installation for Mattresses, Furniture and Electronics", sold to "Schools, Hotels, Municipalities and the Military". It names Naperville, Aurora and Elgin among its Illinois service areas but publishes no Illinois address - only 84 October Hill Road Suite 1, Holliston, MA 01746 - no prices and no household or drop-off terms, so there is nowhere to send 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