How to get rid of a mattress in Lisle, 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.

• The cart subscription is the alternative to stickers for ordinary trash, and it does not cover the mattress. The Village lists a "35-gallon waste cart ($24.10/month)", a "65-gallon waste cart ($25.15/month)" and a "95-gallon waste cart ($27.83/month)", collected weekly on Wednesdays, and "No stickers are needed if all items fit in the container." But "If additional refuse bags need to be put out for pickup, stickers are required for each additional bag", and the page does not extend the subscription to bulk items - a mattress does not fit in a cart, so the five-sticker bulk rule still applies. Source Not confirmed: The Village does not state on this page whether a cart subscriber is exempt from any part of the bulk sticker requirement, so the interaction between the subscription and the five-sticker rule is not fully established.
• Lisle's code treats a mattress as waste and prices the offense of getting rid of it wrongly. Section 8-2-1 defines WASTE to include, under metal products and household items, "appliances, refrigerators, furniture, furnishings, fixtures and bedding" - bedding is waste by name. Section 8-2-2(B), Deposits In Streets, allows waste at the curb only as part of the collection: no waste "shall be deposited in any street, alley or public way, excepting waste wrapped in tightly closed and tied plastic bags or placed in a toter and maintained in good order and in an inconspicuous place so as not to create a nuisance to neighbors... and placed for pick up by a scavenger service; and no such waste shall be so placed that it can be blown or scattered by the wind." Section 8-2-2(C) makes it unlawful "to knowingly deposit waste on his or her own property or on the property of another without consent of the owner", 8-2-2(A) forbids letting waste accumulate "for more than seven (7) days", and 8-2-2(G) presumes responsibility: "the person whose name appears as an addressee on said waste shall be prima facie responsible". The penalty in 8-2-2(H) is "as established by Title 1, Chapter 20, 'Fees, Fines, Insurance, Guarantees, and Regulatory Measures' for each offense, and a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues." Section 8-2-3 lets the village manager remove waste an owner will not, charge the cost to the owner and file a lien on the property with the DuPage County recorder of deeds. Source Not confirmed: The code sets the fine by reference to the Title 1, Chapter 20 fee schedule, which is not reproduced on the section page, so the dollar figure for a refuse violation in Lisle is not established.
• Not an option: There is no public drop-off anywhere in DuPage County that will take a household mattress, so Lisle's curbside program is the whole answer. The County's own recycling page splits its work into "curbside and non-curbside (drop-off) recycling" and the programs it actually runs are electronics recycling with fees for televisions and monitors, clothing and textile recycling partnerships, free paper recycling through Midwest Paper Retriever, the Household Hazardous Waste facility and PaintCare paint recycling. Mattresses, furniture and bulky waste appear on none of those lists, and for anything non-curbside the County offers only its Recycle Coach search tool and the address recycle@dupagecounty.gov or 630-407-6700. There is no county transfer station, convenience center or residents' drop-off day here for a mattress. The five stickers on a wrapped mattress are the only route. Source
• Not an option: The Habitat ReStore that covers Lisle - 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. Its donation page accepts furniture including "Bookshelves, buffets/sideboards, tables, nightstands, chairs, sofas" and bed frames, working appliances, kitchen cabinets, doors, windows, lighting, flooring and building materials, but its published refusal list reads "Items we cannot accept: Cribs; Textiles (clothing, curtains, bedding, linens); Used ladders; Mattresses". The frame is welcome and the mattress is not, which saves a wasted trip down Route 59. Source
• Not an option: There is nothing mattress-specific for a Lisle household. The Mattress Recycling Council's own program page lists only California, Connecticut, Oklahoma and Rhode Island, so Illinois runs no statewide mattress recycling program, charges no recycling fee at the point of sale and has no Bye Bye Mattress collection site. Across seventy-five Illinois cities researched for this site, no mattress recycler with a street address and published household terms has been found anywhere in the state, and none serves DuPage County. The village program is the only route, and neither the village nor its hauler says what happens to the mattress once it is collected. 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