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How to get rid of a mattress in Kewanee, IL.
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Henry County, Illinois · 28 options, 8 free · checked Sep 29, 2026
Researched from each provider's own pages and approved for publication by Tim Sumerfield, who has worked in mattress recycling for over a decade. How we check these listings
6 ways to get rid of a mattress in Kewanee
Everything we could find for this city. Click any one of them for the full details.
- 1A Bedder World Mattress Recycling - Kewanee (our Kewanee mattress recycling partner)Easily book a curbside or in-home pickup for mattress recycling throughout IllinoisBook pickup online
- 2City curbside pickup in KewaneeBook a date with the city and leave it at the curbFee not published
- 3Drop-off options near Kewanee2 places that take mattresses, nearest 19 miles awayFrom $10
- 4Junk removal options serving Kewanee4 national companies that come to your doorQuoted by address
- 5Store haul-away options in Kewanee20 retailers remove the old mattress on deliveryFree at 8
- 6Donation options in Kewanee2 charities checked, 1 will not take a mattressFree
Also on this page: Henry County · Illinois rules · common questions · what to check first
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A Bedder World Mattress Recycling - Kewanee
Use our Kewanee mattress recycling partner, A Bedder World.
A Bedder World is a curbside and in-home mattress pickup service, recycling mattresses for homes and businesses throughout Illinois. They take it from the curb or carry it out of any room, and you book online and see the full price before you confirm.
- Kewanee division
- Curbside or any room in the house
- 90% of materials recovered
Metro areas in all 50 states; book online. Small-town and rural coverage not stated.
From $89A pickup fee plus a recycling fee on each piece, so this is where it starts, not a price per mattress. Your total is shown at the booking step before you confirm.
Book recycling pickupRun by the founder of this site. Every other option here is listed so you can compare.
Prices, conditions and sources
Curbside or inside pickup; stairs and long carries cost extra. The price is a pickup fee plus a recycling fee on each piece, so it is a starting price rather than a rate per mattress, and a second piece collected on the same visit costs less than the first. The total for your items is shown at the booking step before you confirm. Owned by the operator of this site.
$89 — Pickup starts at $89. The price is a pickup fee plus a recycling fee on each piece; the total for your items is shown at the booking step.
Not confirmed: The recycling fee charged on each piece is not published separately; it is included in the total shown at the booking step.
A Bedder World states it serves homes and businesses, listing bulk removal for hotels, apartments and commercial customers alongside residential pickup. Source
A Bedder World states it covers 1,000+ cities across all 50 states, with next-day pickup available. Source
A Bedder World states it removes the mattress from anywhere on the property, so pickup is from the curb or from inside the home. Source
A Bedder World states 90% of mattress materials are recovered and commits to sending none to landfill. Source
A Bedder World states it has recycled more than 1 million mattresses. Source
2City curbside pickup in Kewanee
Kewanee’s own collection service takes the mattress from outside your home. You normally have to book a date in advance and follow their wrapping rules.
City of Kewanee weekly bulk item collection - one item a week, mattress named, plastic wrap asked for
Kewanee households on the city's contracted collection: "The City of Kewanee has contracted Lakeshore Recycling Systems to handle garbage, recycling, and bagged landscape waste pickup for our residents." Trash runs Monday through Thursday, "routes are started at 6:00 a.m. and may not be completed until 7p.m. each day". Nothing needs booking for the one weekly item, but "If the item is heavier than 50 lbs., please contact LRS to schedule the collection" at 309.586.4410.
Conditions and source
"If a single household item is too large to fit in a cart, then it is considered a bulk item. LRS will accept one bulk item each week! Please place the bulk item next to your trash cart on your regularly scheduled collection day." "Additional bulk items placed out on the same day will require prepayment and prescheduling." The city's examples name the item outright: "bed frame, box spring (bed), bicycle, chair, love seat/sofa, one part of sectional couch, mattress, frame, or wall picture." "For health and safety reasons, mattresses should be wrapped in plastic to be collected. Plastic mattress wrap can be found online or at local grocery stores, hardware stores, storage and moving outlets. If using loose plastic, it must be completely taped and secured on all corners with no exposure to the mattress." Trash itself goes out "between noon of the day before your scheduled collection and 6:00 a.m. the day of your scheduled collection".
Not confirmed: The city does not say in words that the one weekly bulk item carries no charge; it says only that additional items put out the same day "will require prepayment and prescheduling", and publishes no amount for those.
Not confirmed: A mattress and a box spring are listed as separate examples, so a set may take two weeks under the one-item-a-week rule, but the city does not say so.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 25, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
Trash Collection - City of Kewanee Public Works
City of Kewanee - Transfer Station allowable items and Bulk Items flyer (2025)
Fee not published
Visit siteA Bedder World collects from the curb too, or from any room in the house — see option 1.
3Drop-off options near Kewanee
Places that accept mattresses if you can get it there yourself. Distance is measured from the center of Kewanee. Some accept residents of their own city or county only, so check before you drive.
Cheapest
Kewanee Transfer Station - city-run drop-off naming mattresses and box springs, $10.00 minimum load
The station is run by the city itself - "The City still maintains the operations of the Transfer Station" - and the city publishes no residency test for it. Charging is by the load: "Transfer Station fees are asses by the weight of materials being disposed on each vehicle. There is a minimum charge of $10.00 for loads weighing 360 pounds or less." "All truck loads must be tarped, or could be subject to a $50.00 fine or refusal of services." Transfer Station 309-761-1513; Public Works Clerk 309-761-1002.
Conditions and source
"TRANSFER STATION / 194 Fisher Ave / Hours: Monday - Friday from 7:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. / Closed daily 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for lunch", and "closed on City Hall business holidays". "The Transfer Station WILL accept: Building materials: siding, shingles, windows, wood; Household items: furniture, mattresses, box springs, carpet, toilets; Junk metal; Humidifiers or dehumidifiers (must have the Freon or other regulated gas removed...); Small household electronics with motors and without green circuit boards...; Miscellaneous junk and trash". "The following items are NOT accepted: White goods: stoves, refrigerators, freezers, water heaters, water softeners, room air conditioners; Electronics...; Toxic materials: liquid paint, cleaning solvents, motor oil, batteries; Tires; Landscape waste: dirt, tree branches, leaves, grass clippings; Slate siding and shingles; Concrete, brick, masonry, railroad ties". Saturday opening was "9:00am to 12:00pm" on eleven listed 2025 dates between April 26 and September 27.
Not confirmed: No rate per pound or per ton above the $10.00 minimum is published.
Not confirmed: The city's trash page and its Transfer Station flyer give different weekday hours - 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. - and the city publishes both.
Not confirmed: No 2026 Saturday opening dates have been published.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 25, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
City of Kewanee - Transfer Station allowable items and Bulk Items flyer (2025)
$10
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Knox County Landfill self-haul disposal (county-owned gate, priced by the ton)
Open beyond Knox County. The county prices its gate in two columns, “Knox County” and “Out of County”, with Residential at $63.00 in the first and $67.00 in the second, and Manifested waste at $67.00 and $71.00 — so waste from outside Knox County is taken, at $4.00 a ton more. Commercial, Demo, Decertified Dirt, Industrial and Residential are all priced, so households and trade alike may use the site. No proof of residency, permit, sticker or account is mentioned anywhere on the county's landfill pages, in either direction. Roll-off dumpster rental, unlike the gate, is bounded: “(Only available in 20 mile radius of Landfill location. See map for details.)”
Conditions and source
996 Knox Road 2150N, Oneida, IL 61447, at (309) 375-6045. Gate hours in the county's own words: “Hours of Operation: Mon-Sat: Open 8am”, “Monday – Friday: Across Scale by 3:30pm / Leave Landfill by 4:00pm”, “Saturday: Across Scale by 11:30 / Leave Landfill by Noon”. Office hours Monday-Friday 8:00AM to 3:30PM. From January 1 to April 1, 2026 the county runs winter hours: weekdays unchanged, but Saturdays only every other week, 8:00 am to 11:30 am, on January 3, 17 and 31, February 14 and 28 and March 14 and 28, with a make-up Saturday after any holiday or weather closure. The rate card, headed “As of January 1, 2026” and priced per ton on the county's own fee page: Knox County column: Commercial $63.00, Demo $63.00, Decertified Dirt $63.00, Industrial $63.00, Manifested $67.00, Residential $63.00, Yard Waste $65.00. Out of County column: Commercial $67.00, Demo $67.00, Decertified Dirt $67.00, Industrial $67.00, Manifested $71.00, Residential $67.00, Yard Waste $65.00. Misc: Appliances $10.00, Backhoe Dig-Off $60.00, Compost — We Load $25.00, Compost — You Load $20.00, Foundry Sand $47.00, Grit $53.00, Mobile Homes $750.00, Appliance Removal $30.00, Pull-Off $30.00, Sludge $63.00, Battery Jump $20.00, Clean Concrete/Rock/Brick/Dirt $00.00. Tires: Car Off Rim $15.00, Car On Rim $25.00, Oversized $65.00, Truck Off Rim $25.00, Truck On Rim $45.00. Clean concrete, rock, brick and dirt are free. Mattresses are named nowhere on the rate card, so a mattress is charged as ordinary residential waste by weight, and the county publishes no per-item figure for one. The county's separate Landfill FEES page has not been updated and still shows the superseded $40.00/Ton schedule.
Not confirmed: No per-mattress or bulky-item price is published, and mattresses are not named as accepted or refused. What a mattress costs here depends on what it weighs.
Not confirmed: The current rate table on the Landfill Department page prints figures without a unit; the “/Ton” unit is taken from the county's own Landfill FEES page, which otherwise carries a superseded schedule.
Not confirmed: The county prints “Minimum 0-500 $20.00 / 501-1,000 $40.00 / 1,001-1,500 $60.00” under a “Dumpsters” heading; whether that is a minimum gate charge for a light self-haul load or part of the roll-off rental could not be established, so no minimum is recorded.
Not confirmed: Whether the site is recycling anything, or burying all of it, is not stated beyond the department's own phrase “refuse disposal”.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 25, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
Fee not published
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4Junk removal options serving Kewanee
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.
1-800-GOT-JUNK? mattress removal
Franchise network; coverage varies by ZIP (some ZIPs not serviced).
Conditions and source
In-person estimate before work; single items priced by size, minimum charge applies (amount not published). Donates or recycles where possible.
Not confirmed: Coverage varies by ZIP.
Not confirmed: No published mattress price.
Not confirmed: Recycling/donation not guaranteed per job.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 22, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
Ask provider
Visit siteCollege HUNKS mattress removal
Franchise network; coverage varies by ZIP.
Conditions and source
Free estimate at start of job; price depends on location and job. Mattress recycled or disposed of; few donation centers take mattresses.
Not confirmed: Coverage varies by ZIP.
Not confirmed: No published price.
Not confirmed: Recycling vs landfill not stated per location.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 22, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
Ask provider
Visit siteJunk King mattress disposal
100+ franchise locations in U.S. and Canada; coverage varies by ZIP.
Conditions and source
Free onsite/photo/phone estimate; pricing varies by location. Works with local recyclers and donation partners.
Not confirmed: Coverage varies by ZIP.
Not confirmed: No published mattress price on primary pages.
Not confirmed: Per-location recycling outcome not stated.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 22, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
Ask provider
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The Junkluggers mattress removal
Franchise network; find a local Junkluggers; coverage varies by ZIP.
Conditions and source
Free up-front estimate; most locations offer same-day pickup. Donates/recycles/repurposes when possible.
Not confirmed: Coverage varies by ZIP.
Not confirmed: No published price.
Not confirmed: Disposal of non-reusable mattresses not described.
From the provider’s own page, checked Sep 22, 2026. Not confirmed by phone.
Ask provider
Visit site5Store haul-away options in Kewanee
If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.
- Casper
- Free
- Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source
- Purple
- Free
- Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source
- Raymour & Flanigan
- Free
- New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source
- Rooms To Go
- Free
- New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source
The other 15 retailers
- Saatva
- Free
- New Saatva mattress with white glove delivery; select removal at checkout; continental US. Clean, undamaged mattress/foundation only; no adjustable bases, frames, waterbed or Sleep Number bases. Source
- Sam's Club
- Free
- Select mattresses with White Glove Delivery; free White Glove for Plus members buying online; not PR/AK/HI. Haul-away on request; biohazard items refused. Source
- Tempur-Pedic direct
- Free
- Mattress (not TEMPUR-Cloud), power base or foundation bought directly from Tempur-Pedic; like-for-like. Adult 18+ present; bedding removed; unsanitary/heavily soiled items may be refused. Source
- Amazon
- $79.99
- Purchased with an eligible mattress; available in select cities. One mattress or box spring; no bodily fluids or bed bugs; adult present. Source
- Avocado Green Mattress
- Ask provider
- Avocado In-Home Delivery & Setup order in select areas; must buy the equivalent item. Subject to local health regulations; no bed frames/furniture. Source
- Bob's Discount Furniture
- Ask provider
- New mattress/foundation delivered via BOBtastic White Glove Delivery. Safe and sanitary condition. Source
- Costco
- Ask provider
- Costco mattress delivery in select areas; one-for-one like item. Not damaged, soiled or infested; ready at delivery; additional fees may apply. Source
- Helix Sleep
- $219
- Helix order with In-Home Setup & Removal selected at checkout; contiguous 48 states. Stained/soiled items may be refused. Source
- IKEA
- $30
- Mattress or box spring bought in store with in-home delivery, in select markets / ZIP codes in the continental US; not online orders. Removal may be on a different date from delivery. Source
- Living Spaces
- Ask provider
- Full Service Delivery; request at checkout. Stained/soiled mattresses not eligible. Source
- Macys
- $25
- Macy's mattress with White Glove ($125) or Room of Choice ($75) delivery; one-for-one. No stained, soiled or bed-bug items; no frames/adjustable bases/furniture. Source
- Mattress Firm
- Ask provider
- Mattress ordered for delivery from Mattress Firm; one-for-one. Box spring removed only if new order includes one; no wet, unsanitary or infested bedding; no furniture. Source
- Mattress Warehouse
- $29.99
- With delivery of a new purchase; add before delivery date. Mattresses/box springs only; stained items excluded. Source
- Resident (Nectar, DreamCloud)
- $199
- Nectar or DreamCloud order with paid White Glove Delivery, where offered. Removal at the provider's discretion; may be unavailable in some areas; CA/RI/CT add a state-mandated fee. Source
- Sleep Number
- Ask provider
- With a Sleep Number bed delivery: included with Ultimate delivery ($350) or added for $100 with Premium/Doorstep; one disposal per Smart Bed delivered. Adult 18+ present; no bed bugs/extreme soiling; Doorstep customers must put the old bed outside. Source
6Donation options in Kewanee
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 Henry County offers
Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Kewanee and its neighbors.
- Henry County has a solid waste coordinator and no solid waste service. The county's Zoning & Building page states that the department “is responsible for development and implementation of several land use management programs in the unincorporated areas of the county” and then, in a single line, that “The Department also serves as the Henry County Solid Waste and Recycling Coordinator. Please call for availability.” The contact is Kyle Stromquist, Henry County Zoning & Building Officer, 307 West Center Street, Cambridge, IL 61238, 309-937-3419, Monday through Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm, with the note “Call for inspector availability.” The department's own document list runs to a Flood Plain Ordinance, Forms & Applications, a Solid Waste Management Ordinance, a Subdivision Ordinance and a Zoning Ordinance — a coordinator's paperwork, not a program. Henry County publishes no county drop-off site, no county collection of bulky items, no recycling center, no clean-up or amnesty day and no fee schedule of any kind. For a resident of Kewanee or Geneseo with a mattress, the county layer is empty and the answer lies with the town or with a landfill in a neighboring county. Source Not confirmed: No county bulky-item collection, drop-off site or clean-up event is published anywhere on the Henry County site, and its A-Z site map lists none. Not confirmed: The county's Solid Waste Management Ordinance is served as a scanned PDF with no extractable text, so its contents — including any rule about where household waste must go — could not be read.
- Not an option: Henry County's own recycling processor does not answer the mattress question either. Eagle Enterprises Recycling, Inc., based in Galva, publishes an FAQ whose bulky exceptions run to appliances — it will take “stoves, washing machines, dryers, and hot water heaters” and refuses anything with Freon, naming “refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, and humidifiers” — and it requires electronics to be brought to the facility rather than left at the curb, during hours of “Monday-Friday 6:00 am - 4:30 pm Saturday 7:00 - 11:00 am”. Odd items such as children's play sets are judged case by case. Mattresses, bedding and furniture are named nowhere, accepted or refused, and no price is published for anything; the FAQ directs inquirers to contact the company for cost. Source Not confirmed: The FAQ publishes no street address and no fee, and names neither mattresses nor furniture, so nothing here meets the standard for listing a drop-off.
- The Illinois EPA's own county attributions for this corner of the state come from the Region Three volume of its landfill capacity series: “The counties of Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Knox, Marshall, McDonough, Mercer, Peoria, Rock Island, Stark, Tazewell, Warren and Woodford are located in Region Three: Peoria/Quad Cities.” It records Atkinson Landfill as “County Henry, Municipality Atkinson, Location 137 Commercial Dr.”, owned and operated by Atkinson Landfill Co. of Chicago; Knox County Landfill #3 as “County Knox, Municipality Oneida, Location 996 Knox Road 2150 North” with the footnote “This landfill is owned and operated by Knox County (Landfill Committee of the Knox County Board)”; and Envirofil of Illinois Inc. as “County McDonough, Municipality Macomb, Location 13998 E. 1400th St.”, with the footnote “A subsidiary of Waste Management Inc. Midwest”. Read against the 2025 report, which no longer lists Atkinson, this places every currently active landfill within reach of Henry County outside it. Source Not confirmed: This volume is the 2012 edition and is used here only for county attribution and ownership, not for current capacity, fees or operating status.
- There is no longer an active permitted landfill in Henry County. Illinois EPA's Landfill Capacity Report of July 2025 (IEPA/BOL/IL-2025-001) reports that “During calendar year 2024, 35 permitted landfills in Illinois reported receiving a total of 46,706,738 cubic yards of solid waste”, and names all seven in Region 3, the Peoria/Quad Cities region that contains Henry County: Eco Hill, Envirofil of Illinois Inc., Indian Creek Landfill No. 2, Knox County Landfill #3, Peoria City/County Landfill #2, Quad Cities Landfill Phase IV and Upper Rock Island County Landfill. Atkinson Landfill, at 137 Commercial Dr., Atkinson, which the same series of reports recorded as Henry County's landfill taking more than 111,000 tons in 2012, is not among them. The nearest of the seven with a published household rate is Knox County's, at Oneida. Source Not confirmed: The 2025 report lists landfills by name and region only; it does not print counties, so the county of each Region 3 site comes from the 2012 edition of the same report.
- What Henry County does run on solid waste is enforcement, and it reaches only the part of the county no city governs. The Henry & Stark County Health Department's Solid Waste & Nuisance page sets its remit as investigating nuisance violations “in unincorporated areas”, naming “Accumulation of junk and/or debris” and “Unlawful dumping of rubbish, garbage or refuse” among them, and it points to the Henry County and Stark County Solid Waste Ordinances as the instruments. It is explicit about what it does not do — mold, asbestos, mobile home parks, swimming facilities and pests inside homes are all excluded. The Kewanee office is at 309-852-0197, Monday through Friday 8AM to 4PM. This matters for a mattress only in the negative: the county's involvement begins when one is dumped, not before, and nothing here offers a resident of an incorporated town such as Kewanee or Geneseo a place to take one. Source Not confirmed: The department's page carries no disposal advice, no facility list and no fee, and the linked ordinance PDFs were not readable.
Illinois mattress disposal rules
- 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
Questions people ask about Kewanee
Is there free mattress disposal in Kewanee?
Yes: Casper removal with In-Home Delivery & Setup; Havertys complimentary mattress removal; Purple In-Home Setup with mattress removal. Check eligibility and conditions before you go.
How much does mattress pickup cost in Kewanee?
Published starting prices: A Bedder World mattress pickup from $89. Stairs, box springs, and extra items can add fees.
Will the store take my old mattress when I buy a new one?
Several retailers offer haul-away with a new mattress delivery, usually with conditions: Casper, Havertys, Purple, Raymour & Flanigan, Rooms To Go, Saatva.
Are there state rules for mattress disposal in Illinois?
Residential body says Saturday 8–2; same-page footer says 9–1. Both show weekdays 8–4. No Saturday schedule selected.
What to check before you go
- Say if the mattress is wet, stained, or has any sign of pests — that is the usual reason one is turned away.
- Ask what the total will be. Box springs, stairs, and extra items are often charged separately.
- Check you qualify. Many sites serve only residents of their own city or county.