How to get rid of a mattress in Granite City, 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.

• Granite City does not collect its own refuse and does not publish any bulk-item terms. The city's Waste Disposal page is explicit: "Refuse collection services are not provided by the City, but are provided by Republic Services." The rules the city does impose are about presentation and timing: "City Ordinance requires that the refuse be placed within a garbage container and not simply in trash bags alone", and "garbage may not be placed out for collection prior to 6:00 pm on the evening prior to the day of collection", with residents who fail to comply facing fines of up to $750 per violation and further penalties for repeat offenses. General waste questions go to the Street/Public Works Department at (618) 452-6222. Nothing on the page states a bulk-item allowance, a mattress rule, a booking route or a fee - for those the city hands the resident to Republic Services. Source Not confirmed: The city publishes no bulk-item allowance, mattress rule, booking procedure or price for the Republic Services collection it requires residents to use, and does not name the ordinance section that sets the $750 maximum fine.
• The Streets & Sanitation FAQ adds the booking channel and repeats the set-out rule, and confirms there is no city-run large-item service to ask about. Asked "What day is my garbage collected?", the city answers: "Garbage collection day varies for different sections of town. To determine when your collection day is, call Republic Services at (618) 659-5360 and ask for assistance." It restates that "City ordinance requires that you set your garbage out no earlier than 6 p.m. the day before scheduled pick-up." There is no FAQ about large items, furniture, mattresses, bulk pickup fees or drop-off sites - the department's published guidance on anything oversized is the Republic Services phone number. Source Not confirmed: The FAQ does not say whether a mattress may go out with the weekly collection, whether it must be booked, or what Republic charges if the allowance is exceeded.
• The only published mattress terms for Granite City come from the township, not the city, and they are free. Nameoki Township's Highway Department page carries a "Bulk Trash Pick-Up" notice: "Republic Services provides a free pick-up of large items and appliances for residents twice each year. Please contact Republic Services to schedule your pick-up", at (618) 656-6883. The accepted list names bedding explicitly: "Appliances, carpet (cut into bundles no longer than 4' in length and 3' in diameter and weighing less than 50 lbs. per bundle), furniture including couches, chairs, dressers, tables, desks, and mattress sets." The Highway Department is at 4250 Highway 162, Granite City, IL 62040, open "Monday - Friday: 7:00 am - 3:00 pm" and closed for lunch 11:00-11:30, under Highway Commissioner Dan Harper at (618) 931-1290. So a Granite City household in Nameoki Township can have a mattress set taken twice a year at no charge, by ringing the hauler rather than the city. Source Not confirmed: The township page says "residents" without stating whether the twice-yearly free pickup covers every Republic customer in the city of Granite City or only households inside Nameoki Township - the city is split between Nameoki and Granite City townships, and the city's own pages never mention the program. Not confirmed: The page gives no booking notice period, no set-out time, no item count per visit, no wrapping rule and no charge for a third visit in a year. Not confirmed: A local news site reports that the township replaced the twice-yearly curbside pickup from February 2026 with two free uses of the Highway Department dumpsters plus a volume-based fee; the township's own page and announcements still describe only the Republic pickup, so the current arrangement could not be confirmed from a primary source.
• Not an option: Granite City runs exactly one drop-off site and it will not take a mattress. The city's Waste Disposal page offers residents only a yard waste facility - "Residents of Granite City may dump their yard waste at the yard waste facility, which is located at the intersection of 840 25th Street and the railroad tracks", with operating hours available from the Street/Public Works Department at (618) 452-6222 - and no transfer station, convenience center or bulky-waste drop-off of any kind. Madison County operates no residents' drop-off for bulky waste either; its published household collections are for hazardous material. A Granite City resident who wants to self-haul a mattress is therefore driving to a Metro East landfill gate with no published household rate: WM's Milam Landfill at 601 Madison Rd., East St. Louis (Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) publishes accepted waste types but no price, and St. Clair County's own landfill hand-out lists only that a fee applies and varies by site. Source Not confirmed: No facility reachable from Granite City publishes a per-mattress or minimum-load price for a household self-haul, and the city's yard waste site publishes no hours of its own.
• Not an option: Granite City's nearest ReStore, ten miles east in Collinsville, refuses mattresses in writing: Lewis & Clark Habitat for Humanity's donation page states "No sofa bed, mattresses, or box springs." The store is in The Orchards at 1950 Vandalia Street, Collinsville, Illinois 62234, taking donations "Wed-Fri: 10am - 5pm Saturdays: 10am - 3pm" and "Closed: Sun - Tues". It does accept furniture such as tables, chairs and dressers, housewares, cabinets, appliances, tools, flooring and building materials, but only "New or Gently Used Items In Clean, Usable Condition, and Complete Working Order Free of dirt, mold, mildew, or water damage", and its furniture bar excludes anything with "tears, pet hair, odors, or stains". Clothes, sheets and comforters, baby and toddler items, dishwashers, windows and residential paint are also refused. Source
• Not an option: Nothing in Granite City recycles a mattress. The one published program that takes mattress sets - the twice-yearly free "Bulk Trash Pick-Up" on Nameoki Township's Highway Department page, run by Republic Services at (618) 656-6883 - is a disposal run: it lumps "furniture including couches, chairs, dressers, tables, desks, and mattress sets" with appliances and carpet, and says nothing about recycling, dismantling or diversion. No mattress recycler, MRC/Bye Bye Mattress site, manufacturer take-back or city program is named by the city, the township or Madison County. Illinois is not an MRC state and runs no statewide mattress program, and no Illinois mattress recycler with an address and published household terms has been established in any city researched so far. 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