How to get rid of a mattress in Litchfield, 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.

• Litchfield's code creates no municipal collection whatever: its garbage chapter runs to two sections and neither of them collects anything. Chapter 53, Garbage and Refuse, of Title V (Public Works) contains only "Sec. 53.01 - Definitions" and "Sec. 53.02 - Hauling method". The definitions are narrow — "Garbage means rejected food wastes, including every refuse accumulation of animal, fruit, or vegetable matter used or intended for food..." and "Refuse means ashes, tin cans, broken crockery, glassware, bottles, rubbish, junk, liquid waste, wastepaper, and like materials" (1983 Code § 10-1; Ord. 1863, passed 8-4-1960). The single operative rule is § 53.02: "The hauling of garbage or refuse shall be in appropriately encased vehicles or containers and handled in such a way that none of the garbage or refuse shall drop, spill, or scatter or be permitted to drop, spill, or scatter upon any street or public place." There is no hauler license, no collection service, no bulk-item provision and no fee schedule in the chapter; the code cross-references garbage and debris on property at §§ 94.01–94.08 and sanitary landfills at § 150.072. The code is current through Ordinance No. 3730, enacted October 17, 2024. The City's own website has no garbage or refuse page at all — its Street Department page covers drainage, streets and water and sewer lines only. Source Not confirmed: Who collects residential refuse in Litchfield, and on what terms, is not published by the City — neither its website nor its code names a hauler. Not confirmed: No bulk-item allowance, large-item fee or clean-up week is published by the City of Litchfield, Illinois. Not confirmed: Search results for "City of Litchfield" garbage pages resolve to cityoflitchfield.org, which is Litchfield, Michigan; nothing on that site applies here. Not confirmed: Whether Litchfield runs a city-wide clean-up is not established. Not confirmed: The nuisance sections §§ 94.01–94.08 were not read, so accumulation and dumping penalties are not established.

• 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