How to get rid of a mattress in Morton, 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.

• Morton's municipal code publishes an actual fine, puts bedding squarely inside the waste it regulates, and bans disposing of it inside the village. Section 7-2-22 defines "RUBBISH: Nonputrescible solid waste consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, construction materials, concrete, asphalt, and other paving materials, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, other yard or garden wastes, wood, tree trunks, tree limbs, glass, bedding, crockery, and similar materials" - bedding is trash, so a mattress is inside Chapter 2. Section 7-2-31 prices a violation: "Any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity violating any provisions of this Chapter shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) for each offense." Section 7-2-8 rules out any local tip: "No garbage or waste material shall be dumped within the Village limits, but must be hauled to a place outside the Village limits, at a distance which will not create a nuisance to any resident within the Village limits." Section 7-2-2 requires every owner, occupant or lessee to keep premises "free and clear of any accumulation of garbage... and all refuse and rubbish of every description whatsoever" and states "Dumping of rubbish on vacant property or on streets, alleys, or other public places is prohibited." Section 7-2-11 makes the licensed hauler exclusive for paid collection: "All garbage and other waste materials embraced within this Chapter will be called for and disposed of by the licensee hereunder, and shall not be collected or disposed of, for hire, in any other manner, except as provided herein; and no garbage or waste material shall be allowed to accumulate on any property or premises within the Village for a period longer than the time between calls by said licensee." Section 7-2-6 makes it unlawful to collect refuse for hire in Morton without a license, at a yearly fee of $500. Section 7-2-19 protects the sticker system: "It shall be unlawful for any person, other than the Village's contracted refuse hauler, to remove any prepaid bags or stickers from any refuse left at a dwelling unit for collection." Section 7-2-29 bars putting garbage in someone else's container without consent. Litter left on open or vacant private property is abated under sections 7-2-26 to 7-2-28 after fourteen days' certified notice, with the cost charged to the owner. Source Not confirmed: Chapter 2 sets no set-out window for placing refuse or a bulk item at the curb - the 5:00 a.m. deadline and the night-before permission come from the hauler's sheet, not the code. Not confirmed: The code contains no bulk-item or mattress provision of its own and no wrapping rule.
• Not an option: Morton has a waste company office in the village that runs a free public drop-off - and it does not take mattresses. GFL's Morton office at 1090 W. Jefferson St., Morton, IL (309.263.2390) is open "Monday to Friday 8am - 4:30pm, Saturday 8am - 12 noon (seasonal)", and the drop-off it publishes is narrow: "E-WASTE, USED OIL and CARDBOARD DROP OFF - E-waste, used oil and cardboard drop off is free. Please note that a proper form of identification is required for drop off. Households must have GFL accounts in good standing to use the drop off." The only other published drop-off rate at the site is for yard waste: "Drop off at the Morton office for $1.75 per bag." Nothing in the sheet offers a mattress, a bulk item or a general household load at the counter. That matters because the regional alternative is closed to Morton residents: the Peoria Transfer Station's free residential load requires a Peoria County ID, and Morton is in Tazewell County. So the $15 curbside pickup with 24-48 hours' notice, or the free spring bulky week, are Morton's only published routes. Source Not confirmed: The City of Washington publishes the yard waste drop-off rate at the same Morton site as "$2.50 per bag" while Morton's own sheet says "$1.75 per bag"; the difference is unexplained and may be a resident-versus-non-resident rate. Not confirmed: Whether the Morton office would accept a mattress for a gate fee is not published either way.
• Not an option: Tazewell County's own recycling page is the check on whether anything mattress-specific exists near Morton, and it is silent. The Tazewell County Health Department's Recycling Resources page - the page the City of Washington sends its own residents to, and the county's consolidated answer for the whole of Tazewell - names waste haulers (Waste Management, GFL, Republic Services, Better Earth Logistics), links municipality-specific recycling information, and points to general recycling and US EPA guidance. It makes no mention of mattresses, box springs, bulky items, furniture or any mattress recycler, and lists no drop-off site for them. Combined with the GFL Morton office taking only e-waste, used oil, cardboard and yard waste, there is no mattress recycler, take-back or diversion program published anywhere in Morton or its county. Illinois is not a Mattress Recycling Council state and runs no statewide mattress program. 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