How to get rid of a mattress in Harrisburg, 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.

• Harrisburg, the Saline County seat and at 7,922 the largest town in its county, publishes no waste service on its own site. The City's Street & Alley department page is three lines long: “Harrisburg Street & Alley, 918 Bauman Lane, Harrisburg, IL 62946, 618-252-4302, Superintendent: Kenny Mayhall”. The site's navigation lists the whole of city government - City Hall, City Council, FOIA, Council Agenda & Minutes, Public Notices, Properties for Sale, Projects, ADA, and under Departments only Water & Sewer, Street & Alley, Fire Department, Police Department and Cemeteries - alongside History, Tourism, the Sasquatch Festival, the amphitheatre and the farmers market. There is no garbage, refuse, sanitation, solid waste or recycling department, no collection schedule, no bulky item program, no clean-up week and no named hauler anywhere on harrisburgillinois.com. City Hall is at 110 East Locust Street, (618) 253-7451. A warning for anyone researching this town: a search for “City of Harrisburg” bulk pickup returns a large, well-indexed Zendesk help center at cityofharrisburg.zendesk.com whose sanitation articles read “Please contact the Department of Public Works at 717-412-4320 or call 3-1-1” and “Bulk items can be placed with your trash (one item per week) for collection during your regular service. Not included are: Electronic items and sofa beds.” That is Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - the 717 area code, the PA Megan's Law article and the Dauphin County references give it away - and none of it applies in Illinois. Source Not confirmed: Who collects household refuse in Harrisburg, Illinois is not established from any City page. Not confirmed: No rate, set-out rule, bulky-item allowance or clean-up week is published by the City. Not confirmed: Harrisburg appears in Municode's Illinois index but its code pages redirect to the state index and served no content on repeated attempts, so the City's refuse ordinance could not be read.
• Harrisburg's utility billing covers water and sewer and says nothing about refuse. The City's Water & Sewer Department page gives deposits - “In order for a tenant to establish residential water/sewer service, a security deposit of $150.00 is required, along with a photo ID and a housing inspection. A $200.00 deposit for a business. There is no deposit required for a homeowner, who shows proof of ownership” - and billing: “A minimum water and sewer bill is $45.84, which is for usage of up to 2,000 gallons per billing cycle”, with “Bills are due on the 15th and 28th-30th, depending on the billing cycle.” Payment is by bank draft, phone on 1-855-939-1456, check to the Harrisburg Water Department, 110 E. Locust, Harrisburg IL 62946, cash, or online, and the department is at 120 Veterans Drive, Harrisburg, IL 62946 at 618-252-6344, Monday through Friday 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. The documents it posts are the Application for Service, the Owner Authorization Form, the Consumer Water Confidence Report, Ordinance 1877 - Water Rates, Ordinance 1878 - Sewer Rates and the Water Termination notice. There is no garbage ordinance, no refuse charge and no trash line on the bill. Unlike Herrin, Carterville, Mount Carmel and Metropolis, Harrisburg does not bill its residents for trash collection, which is consistent with refuse being a private subscription here. Source Not confirmed: The absence of a trash charge is evidence that the City does not bill for collection; it does not by itself establish that no City collection exists. Not confirmed: No ordinance covering garbage was found published by the City.
• The regional hauler is headquartered in Harrisburg and does not list Harrisburg among the towns it serves. Bulldog Systems LLC, at 907 N. Jackson Street, Harrisburg, Illinois 62946 at 618-252-0172, says on its residential page: “We provide weekly home garbage pickup service throughout Southern Illinois, including for residents in the following communities”, and then names Brookport (Massac), Broughton (Hamilton), Buncombe (Johnson), Cave in Rock (Hardin), Christopher (Franklin), Crossville (White), Eldorado (Saline), Equality (Gallatin), Golconda (Pope), Karnak (Pulaski), Lake of Egypt Association of Property Owners (Johnson), Metropolis (Massac), Mill Shoals (White), Muddy (Saline), Norris City (White), Rosiclare (Hardin), Sesser (Franklin), Shawneetown (Gallatin), Springerton (White), Stonefort (Saline), Thompsonville (Franklin), Vienna (Johnson), West Frankfort (Franklin) and Zeigler (Franklin). Three Saline County places are on that list - Eldorado, Muddy and Stonefort - and Harrisburg, the county seat and the company's own home town, is not. On bulky items the page says only: “For bulky or oversized items that will not fit in the container, such as furniture and appliances, please call us to schedule a special pickup. Special pickups will not be made unless you have scheduled the pickup and given us permission to take the item(s). Please place items on the ground, next to the cart.” The site carries a Waste Connections logo in its footer. Source Not confirmed: The list is of communities where Bulldog provides weekly residential service; it does not say Harrisburg is excluded, only that Harrisburg is not named. Not confirmed: No price is published for the special pickup, and no allowance or limit is stated. Not confirmed: The page publishes no residential monthly rates for any community.

• 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