How to get rid of a mattress in Maywood, 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.

• LRS's own Maywood page carries the same two-free-bulk-items-a-week terms as the Village but a materially softer wrapping rule, which is worth knowing before a resident buys anything: "Mattress Disposal - While not required, it is suggested a mattress to be wrapped in some type of plastic for the safety of our drivers and to protect the item from the weather. Plastic packing wrap, a dollar store tablecloth, a mattress disposal bag or even trash bags that have been cut up and taped around the item would all be acceptable options for pickup on an upcoming service day." The Village's Public Works page makes the same covering compulsory, so the governing instruction in Maywood is the Village's - but LRS's list is the practical guide to what counts as an acceptable cover. LRS confirms it became the Village's residential waste hauler on April 1, 2022 with a local operation in Maywood itself, carts serviced weekly with a 6 a.m. set-out, unlimited bagged excess garbage at 50 pounds or less in containers of 35 gallons or less, additional carts at $3 per month, and free scheduled white-goods collection; contact is Service@LRSrecycles.com or 844-633-3577. Source Not confirmed: The hauler describes plastic covering as suggested while the Village describes it as required; neither page acknowledges the other, and which is enforced at the curb is not published.
• Not an option: Maywood publishes no drop-off site that accepts a mattress. Public Works' waste provision is the weekly LRS cart collection, the new 65-gallon recycling cart program, and the Maywood Compost Program for yard material; the only thing residents are invited to collect from Public Works is a free plastic mattress bag, at 708-450-4427 - the trip is for the bag, not for the mattress. No village yard, transfer station, convenience center or residents' drop-off day for bulky goods is published, and bulky items are directed to the curb instead. Source
• Not an option: Nothing in Maywood is mattress-specific. LRS's Maywood page sets out exactly what the village's contract diverts - a new 65-gallon single-stream recycling cart serviced weekly with loose, unbagged recyclables, and free scheduled white-goods collection - and handles mattresses in the opposite direction, as a bulk item set beside the cart on the ordinary trash day. No mattress recycling, dismantling or recovery is offered, LRS has a local operation in Maywood but publishes no household mattress drop-off or gate rate there, and no mattress recycler or Bye Bye Mattress site with published household terms serves the village. Source Not confirmed: LRS's Maywood operation is described as a local facility but no address, hours or self-haul terms for residents are published for it.
• Not an option: Maywood names no reuse or donation route for a mattress. Public Works' trash and recycling page covers the LRS cart collection, bulk items, mattress covering, white goods, the recycling program and the compost program, and lists no charity, furniture bank, shelter or thrift shop for furniture or bedding. No Maywood reuse organization publishes a mattress acceptance or refusal policy on its own page. Source Not confirmed: No Maywood or near-west-suburban charity with a published mattress rule was found, so no named local refusal can be quoted.

• 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