How to get rid of a mattress in Loves Park, IL.

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

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. 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

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across Loves Park and its neighbors.

• Not an option: Rockford Sharestuff, a ministry of Forest City Church, runs the area's main furniture reuse store — Sharestuff Furniture & More, 4230 Newburg Road, Rockford, IL 61108, open Monday through Friday 10am–6pm and Saturday 10am–4pm, with free pick-ups for large furniture scheduled Monday, Wednesday and Friday 12pm–4pm at 815-316-7610. It will not take a mattress. Its donation rules list what it cannot sell, ending with "Baby cribs / Infant/toddler car seats / Used mattresses (crib or adult size)", and add that "Sharestuff staff reserve the right to refuse any donation for any reason." A clean, unused mattress is not covered either way; a used one is refused outright. Source Not confirmed: The page does not say whether a brand-new, unused mattress still in its wrapping would be accepted
• Not an option: For the Wisconsin border towns — South Beloit, Rockton and Roscoe — the obvious Wisconsin answer is closed to them. The City of Beloit's drop-off site names mattresses plainly: its Solid Waste Ordinance definition of a bulky item includes "couch, hide-a-bed, love seat, chair, dresser, chest of drawer, toilet, crib, door, window, window frame, door frame, piano, organ, liquor cabinet, desk, pinball machine, mattress, box spring", and the Recycling Drop Off Center at 2351 Springbrook Court takes "Bulky Items ($15 Each)" on "Saturdays 9:00am to 12:00pm", against $20 for a pre-paid, pre-scheduled curbside collection. But eligibility is stated and it stops at the state line: "The City of Beloit offers a Recycling Center that is open to the residents of the City of Beloit, Towns of Beloit, Newark, and Turtle Residents." South Beloit, Illinois is none of those, so this is not an option for an Illinois household. Source Not confirmed: The page does not say whether a non-resident may pay a different rate Not confirmed: No exception for adjoining Illinois municipalities is published
• Winnebago County itself runs no county-wide household collection. Its only residential solid waste arrangement is a franchise covering unincorporated territory: the county "solicits qualified and interested firms to submit proposals for Residential Solid Waste Hauling, Recycling & Landscape Waste Collection Services in the unincorporated areas of Rockford Township within Winnebago County", "for an estimated 8,000 residential households with a target service date of August 1, 2024". "Residential households are not required to participate. No other solid waste haulers will be permitted to provide solid waste removal services in the franchise area during the franchise period." The specification leaves bulky items to the contractor — it asks bidders to "specify CONTRACTOR requirements for yard waste, bulk or bundled items" rather than setting any. Nothing in it reaches an incorporated city such as Loves Park, Machesney Park, Rockton, Roscoe or South Beloit. Source Not confirmed: No bulky item fee, allowance or limit is published by the county Not confirmed: Mattresses are not named anywhere in the specification Not confirmed: The county publishes no page describing the awarded service to residents
• Rock River Disposal's own page for the unincorporated county subscription routes describes the bulky arrangement in full: "Household trash is limited to the provided one 95 galon trash container. Additional totes available for rental. Additional trash bags or cans outside the tote require a sticker. Bulk items or cleanups require a call before pickup day during regular business hours, so a work order can be processed." Recycling is not universal on these routes — "Sorry, no recycling program is available in certain areas of our subscription routes." This is a subscription service for unincorporated addresses, not a municipal program, and it publishes no prices. Source Not confirmed: No bulk item fee is published Not confirmed: Mattresses are not named Not confirmed: Which unincorporated areas the subscription route covers is not mapped on the page
• Winnebago County's solid waste role is planning rather than operations. The county board approved "The Regional Solid Waste Management Plan: A Plan for Boone and Winnebago Counties 2022-2042" on November 10, 2022, prepared jointly with Boone County and the Region 1 Planning Council because "The Illinois Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act requires all Illinois counties to update their 20-year comprehensive solid waste management plan every five (5) years." The county publishes no county-run drop-off site, no county bulky collection and no county clean-up or amnesty event. Source Not confirmed: No county household drop-off site is published Not confirmed: No county-wide clean-up, free dump day or voucher program is published