How to get rid of a mattress in Morton Grove, 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: Morton Grove operates no drop-off site that will take a mattress. The Village's Other Waste Initiatives page lists the whole of its self-haul provision and it is all small-item: sharps and medications at the American Legion Memorial Civic Center, 6140 Dempster St., Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; CFL bulbs and eyeglasses at Village Hall, 6101 Capulina Ave., during business hours; rechargeable batteries at area Home Depot, Lowe's and Batteries Plus stores; and SWANCC-run programs for rechargeable batteries, CFL bulbs, document destruction, electronics recycling, holiday lights, mercury thermometers and residential chemical waste. Household chemical waste goes to the permanent IEPA sites in Naperville, Chicago and Rockford. Nothing on the page accepts furniture, bedding or bulky waste, and the Village directs bulky material to the weekly Groot bulk-item pickup instead. There is no Village yard or public works drop-off for residents to haul a mattress to. Source
• SWANCC's own member list names Morton Grove as one of its member communities, with "Garbage and Recycling Hauler: Groot 847-734-6400" - the agency arrangement under which the village's collected waste is transferred through SWANCC's Glenview Transfer Station. Membership is the Village's arrangement for its contracted collector, not a resident entitlement: the member-communities page publishes no resident drop-off right, no reduced gate rate and no proof-of-residency privilege at the transfer station, and lists nothing for members beyond the hauler contact and the agency's special-materials programs. A Morton Grove resident taking a mattress to the Glenview Transfer Station therefore does so on the station's ordinary published terms, the same as any other Cook County resident, and SWANCC membership neither adds nor removes anything from that. Source
• Not an option: Nothing in Morton Grove is mattress-specific. Groot's own Morton Grove residential page repeats the one-free-bulk-item-a-week rule ("one (1) bulk item (not appliances or oversized/overweight items)" on the regular collection day, additional items by arrangement with Groot), lists white goods as requiring advance scheduling and prepayment, and sets out construction-debris bundling rules of up to one cubic yard weekly in lengths no longer than 4 feet and no larger than 2 feet in diameter. It names no mattress recycling, no mattress take-back and no mattress diversion of any kind, and the Village's waste pages name none either: a Morton Grove mattress goes out as a bulk item and into the municipal waste system, which the code requires to be delivered to a SWANCC transfer station for disposal. There is no dedicated mattress recycler with a street address and published household terms serving the village. Source
• Not an option: Morton Grove publishes no local reuse or donation route for a mattress. The Village's full list of diversion programs covers batteries, CFL bulbs, fluorescent tubes, eyeglasses, mercury thermometers, holiday lights, electronics, document destruction, sharps and medications - and no furniture, bedding or household-goods reuse partner at all. The Village names no furniture bank, shelter or thrift shop as a bulky-goods option, and no Morton Grove charity publishes a mattress acceptance policy of its own. Source Not confirmed: Searching for a Morton Grove or near-north-suburban charity that publishes a mattress policy turned up only national chains (Goodwill, Salvation Army) and directory listings, none of which states a mattress rule on its own page; no local refusal could be quoted from a primary 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