How to get rid of a mattress in Normal, 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: Normal offers no public drop-off where a resident can take a mattress, and does not need to, because the curbside bulky run takes it. The Town's only self-service drop-off is electronics recycling at Public Works, 1301 Warriner St., Normal (309-454-9571), which is open to all McLean County residents and takes televisions, computer equipment and similar items banned from landfill by state law - not furniture or mattresses. McLean County has no public landfill, and Bloomington's Citizen Convenience Center at 402 S. East Street is restricted to City of Bloomington solid waste program customers, who must produce a Bloomington utility bill and matching Illinois ID, and in any case accepts only yard waste, appliances and propane tanks. For anything over the Town's 500-pound weekly limit the Bulky Waste page tells residents to hire a private contractor or rent a commercial dumpster. Source
• A Normal household with a usable mattress has the same reuse route as Bloomington: Recycling Furniture for Families, 515 North Center Street, Bloomington (309-829-6500), about four miles away. Its published donations list accepts "Bedframes, headboards, mattresses and box springs (esp. queen and twin) from smoke-free homes", refuses soiled, torn or broken furniture, and takes drop-offs at the warehouse door in the alley behind the building from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Thursday and Saturday. It will also collect: "If you live in McLean County and cannot drop off your contributions, you can arrange for us to pick them up by calling 309-829-6500. Please allow at least two weeks' notice", with volunteer crews on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday 10 a.m. to noon and Tuesday 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., items on ground level only. For a Normal address the charity asks for a voluntary donation towards truck costs, suggesting $29; the $40 mandatory pickup fee applies only in McLean County outside Bloomington and Normal. Source
• Not an option: The Habitat for Humanity ReStore at 1402 W. Washington St., Bloomington - the nearest ReStore to Normal, serving all of McLean County - refuses mattresses. Its FAQ states: "We do not carry mattresses or box springs, but we recommend Kern Mattress Outlet for discounted items or Recycling Furniture for Families for one-time furniture aid... We do carry bed frames and head/footboards in a variety of sizes and styles", and lists mattresses with clothes and dishwashers among the items it never sells. It is open Monday through Saturday 10am-5pm and takes homewares, furniture, tools, appliances and building materials, with free pick-ups for accepted donations. Source
• Not an option: Nothing in Normal or McLean County recycles mattresses. The Ecology Action Center, which runs recycling information for McLean County, Bloomington and Normal through RecycleBN.org, publishes the county guidelines and lists only two furniture and home goods outlets - the Habitat ReStore at 1402 W Washington St. and Recycling Furniture For Families at 515 N Center St. - both of them reuse charities, one of which refuses mattresses outright. The guide's other entries are batteries, CFL bulbs, plastic bags, clothing and textiles, automotive fluids, electronics at Normal Public Works, 1301 Warriner St., pharmaceuticals, latex paint and household hazardous waste at HHWmclean.org; no mattress recycler appears. Illinois has no statewide mattress recycling program, so for a Normal resident a worn-out mattress goes out with the weekly bulky collection. 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