How to get rid of a mattress in Mokena, 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.

• Not an option: Taking it yourself is effectively closed to a Mokena household, on the contracted hauler's own statement: "We often serve roofing companies, trucks from local villages, landscaping companies, and building contractors. You pay for the amount of material you drop off. Waste is charged by the ton. We are not setup to accept small loads of household waste." Homewood Disposal's two Illinois transfer stations are in Cook County, not Will - "East Hazel Crest Transfer, 17450 S. Laflin Ave., East Hazel Crest, IL" (Monday-Friday 5:30am-5pm, Saturday 5:30am-noon) and "Park Forest Transfer, 25 South Street, Park Forest, IL" (Monday-Friday 8am-4:30pm, closed weekends) - and each carries "The minimum charge is for 1 ton" with "Please call for rates". Under-minimum loads are accepted but "the applicable minimum charge will still apply", so one mattress would be billed as a ton. Loads are weighed in and out on a truck scale, payment is cash, check or card, "hard hats and safety vests are required when outside of your vehicle", and batteries, tires, electronics, liquids and hazardous material are refused. The Village of Mokena publishes no drop-off site, yard or residents' day of its own. Source Not confirmed: No per-ton rate or minimum-charge figure is published for either Illinois site, so the cost of a single-mattress trip cannot be established. Not confirmed: The accepted-materials list never names mattresses or bedding.
• Not an option: The Habitat ReStore nearest Mokena refuses mattresses in writing. DuPage and Chicago South Suburbs Habitat for Humanity's store at 15441 S Cicero, Oak Forest, IL 60452 - about eight miles north-east - takes donations Tuesday through Saturday 11am to 4pm, with a second door at 858 Rte 59, Naperville. It accepts a wide furniture range, "Bookshelves, buffets/sideboards, tables, nightstands, bed frames, desks, chairs, sofas, sectionals, TV stands, patio decor/furniture", and offers free pick-ups for heavy or large items left in a weather-protected outdoor structure, but its "Items we cannot accept" list names "Mattresses" alongside cribs, textiles including bedding and linens, used ladders and hazardous chemicals. A Mokena bed frame is donatable; the mattress is not, at the door or on the truck. Source
• Not an option: There is no mattress-specific route for Mokena, and the county's own database says so. Will County Land Use Department's Green Guide recycling-center search for mattresses and box springs returns three entries, all outside Will County: Chicago Mattress Company in Chicago, Sharing Connections Furniture Bank in Downers Grove and AMVETS of Illinois, listed statewide. The county publishes no mattress drop-off, no county mattress recycler and no transfer-station mattress fee, and Illinois has no mattress stewardship program and no Bye Bye Mattress or MRC collection site. Mokena itself runs no mattress program and hosts no dedicated recycler or take-back site: the one large item a week under the village contract is the answer. 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