How to get rid of a mattress in Midlothian, 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.

• Midlothian's enforcement of its refuse rules is unusually specific, and the set-out window is in the ordinance rather than only in the hauler's guidance. Section 8-2-9(A) requires that for single- or two-family dwellings all toters "shall be kept in the rear of the principal building on the lot, except when it is necessary to place the same in the parkway for purposes of garbage collection. On the day preceding the collection of refuse, recycling or landscape materials, residents shall be permitted to place garbage containers in the parkway no earlier than nine o'clock (9:00) A.M. Any and all garbage containers shall be removed from the parkway no later than nine o'clock (9:00) A.M. on the day immediately following the collection". Section 8-2-17 sets the penalties: a notice of violation for overflowing garbage demands abatement "within twenty four (24) hours", failing which the village may remove the garbage itself and charge the owner or occupant all costs, where "The minimum charge for such abatement shall be two hundred dollars ($200.00)"; and "Any person convicted of violating this section shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00). Each day the violation continues shall be considered a separate violation." Branches are policed separately under 8-2-15: none may be placed on the parkway except when the board authorizes it after an act of nature, "Special pick ups may be paid for by the village residents by calling the village scavenger authorized for residential pick up", and a breach draws "not less than twenty five dollars ($25.00) nor more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00)" per day. Section 8-2-5 forecloses self-haul inside the village: "Garbage shall under no circumstances be disposed of in any public dump or public place within the village." Section 8-2-16 bans dumping in any lake, creek, stream or pond. Source Not confirmed: Nothing in Chapter 2 requires a mattress to be wrapped, bagged or covered, and nothing sets a weight or dimension limit for an item placed alongside the toter under 8-2-10. Not confirmed: The code's paid "special pick ups" are described only for branches; whether the village scavenger sells a paid special pick-up for a second mattress, and at what price, is not published.
• Midlothian runs no drop-off a resident can take a mattress to. The village's Cleanup Day page is a volunteer beautification event, not a disposal site: "Each year in the spring, typically the end of April, The Village of Midlothian hosts a Clean Up Day event", "designed to bring residents and community members together to clean up and beautify our Village" through "clearing overgrown vegetation, picking up trash, and clearing debris", with no site, no hours, no accepted-items list, no residency check and no fee - and the date is not given, only a pointer to the Village Calendar. Nothing on the Refuse & Recycling page or in Chapter 2 of the code describes a village yard, transfer point or residents' drop-off day, and 8-2-5 forbids disposal "in any public dump or public place within the village". The village's live news items in September 2026 advertise a Textile Recycling Event and e-waste options only. The nearest gate that publishes a price for a mattress is Cook County Waste & Recycling's transfer station at 12809 S Homan Ave, Blue Island - about five miles east - which lists "Mattress - $10 each"; it is recorded in this batch under Crestwood. Source Not confirmed: The village publishes no date, site or accepted-materials list for Clean Up Day, so whether any year's event has ever taken bulky household waste could not be established from a village source.
• Nothing in Midlothian is mattress-specific. The village's Refuse & Recycling page names recycling only for paper and cardboard, aluminum and metal, cartons and plastics in the Republic toter, and points elsewhere for e-waste; no mattress recycler, take-back or diversion program appears on it, and neither does any Republic program beyond the national bulk-waste line. Illinois runs no mattress stewardship program, there is no Bye Bye Mattress collection site in the state, and across the Illinois cities researched for this site no mattress recycler with published household terms has been found. The only place near Midlothian that puts a published price on a mattress is Cook County Waste & Recycling's Blue Island transfer station at $10 each - a transfer station, so a mattress taken there is bound for landfill, not dismantling. Source Not confirmed: Neither the village nor Republic publishes what happens to a mattress collected at the curb in Midlothian, so whether any part of it is diverted is unknown.
• Not an option: The nearest charity resale shop to Midlothian that publishes a donations policy refuses mattresses outright. Pass It On Thrift Center, 5435 West 127th Street, Crestwood - about three miles west - takes furniture generously: "We accept donations of larger items and furniture every day we are open, from 10am to 2pm. Please bring these items to the back of the store, door #1", with miscellaneous items "on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10am to 2pm" at door #4. But its own list is explicit: "We do not accept the following: large appliances such as refrigerators and ovens, console TVs, oversized entertainment centers and china cabinets, fax machines, printers, organs, pianos, mattresses and box springs, and baby car seats and cribs." It adds "We only accept 'sellable' items - not dirty, ripped, broken items. We have the right to refuse items for donation." The Habitat for Humanity ReStore at 15441 S Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, already recorded on this site, refuses mattresses as every Habitat ReStore checked does, and Restoration Ministries' south-suburban thrift stores state "We are unable to accept large, older TVs, mattresses, baby car seats, and cribs." No charity in or near Midlothian was found publishing an acceptance. Source Not confirmed: Whether any Midlothian church, shelter or furniture program takes a mattress in pristine condition is not published by any of them; nothing was found either way.

• 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