How to get rid of a mattress in O'Fallon, 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.

• O'Fallon's code explains why the city can promise a weekly large-item pickup and why the price is not on the website. Chapter 50 licenses haulers: "No person shall engage in the business as a residential or commercial collector of garbage and rubbish unless first having made application and secured a license from the city" (Sec. 50.03), at "$250 per year" for a residential license (Sec. 50.04). Sec. 50.05 makes rates a matter of council approval rather than of the hauler: an applicant must file "a proposed rate schedule for services to be performed" setting out "the size and number of cans per pickup for the charge, the charge for any extra cans, the charge for the bags... and the charge for bundles and size of the bundles", and "A license shall be granted only upon approval by the City Council of a proposed rate schedule. Once approved, the rate schedule shall be valid for one year and the licensee shall not be permitted to increase prices on the schedule for that same period." Sec. 50.09 is the bulk guarantee: "The licensee shall have, as additional equipment, a truck for the disposal of large or unusual items of rubbish which cannot be placed in the designated containers and shall have available for such pickups such equipment at least one day each week or on such additional days as may be necessary to satisfy the needs of the public." Sec. 50.25 requires "one or more 30-gallon containers with lids" at every private residence, and Sec. 50.28 makes it "unlawful for any person to dump, deposit or place any garbage, rubbish, trash or refuse upon real property owned by another without the consent of the owner". Sec. 50.26 forbids setting waste out so it can blow onto a neighbor's property. Source Not confirmed: The council-approved rate schedule that would state the charge for an extra bulky item is filed with the City Clerk rather than published, so no additional-item price could be established from the code.
• Dumping a mattress in O'Fallon is a criminal matter, not a fine. Sec. 136.02 adopts the state litter prohibition: "No person shall dump, deposit, drop, throw, discard, leave, cause or permit the dumping... of litter upon any public or private property in this city", unless the property is designated for disposal, the litter goes into a receptacle intended for it, the person owns the property or has the owner's consent, "The person is acting under the direction of proper public officials during special cleanup days", or an emergency applies. Sec. 136.03 adds that no one may dispose of litter from a motor vehicle or "transport, by any means, garbage or refuse from any dwelling... and deposit the material in, around or on top of trash barrels or other receptacles placed along public highways or at roadside rest areas." The penalties in Sec. 136.99 escalate: "Any person convicted of a violation of §§ 136.02 through 136.04 is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. A second conviction... is a Class A misdemeanor. A third or subsequent violation... is a Class 4 felony", the court may order the offender to remove and dispose of the litter and tax the supervision costs against them, a highway offender may be required to "maintain litter control for 30 days" over a designated stretch, and "A mandatory minimum fine of $50 must be imposed against any person who is convicted of violating § 136.03." Source Not confirmed: The code contains no O'Fallon-specific rule on apartment or HOA bulky-item disposal, and no ordinance requires a mattress to be wrapped.
• For Metro East the honest answer is that the nearest real hole in the ground is 20 miles west in East St. Louis and it publishes no household price. WM's Milam Landfill is at "601 Madison Rd. East St. Louis, IL 62201", open Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and closed on weekends, and it takes "non-hazardous materials including construction debris, municipal solid waste, contaminated soils" and industrial sludges, while "This facility does not accept hazardous waste." The one concession the page makes to people unloading by hand is a timing rule: "Credit Card Customers and Customers who are unloading by hand must be to the Milam Landfill at least 60 minutes before closing", with a 3:00 p.m. cutoff on Fridays. No gate rate, minimum charge, per-mattress fee or residential self-haul policy is published, and St. Clair County's own landfill hand-out lists the county's two active sites - Milam at 601 Madison Road and a second at 10400 Hillstown Road, Marissa - with nothing more specific about cost than that a fee applies and varies by site. Neither O'Fallon nor St. Clair County operates a residents' drop-off, transfer station or convenience center of its own. Source Not confirmed: No Metro East or Missouri-side facility with a published per-mattress or minimum-load price for a household self-haul could be found: Milam publishes none, the Marissa site publishes none, and St. Louis City's free bulk pickup is limited to its own residents. Not confirmed: Whether Milam Landfill accepts walk-in residential loads at all is not stated on its own page, only that hand-unloading customers face an earlier cutoff.
• Not an option: The Metro East ReStore that serves O'Fallon refuses mattresses outright, in its own words: "No sofa bed, mattresses, or box springs." Lewis & Clark Habitat for Humanity's ReStore is in The Orchards at 1950 Vandalia Street, Collinsville, Illinois 62234, with "Donations Accepted: Wed-Fri: 10am - 5pm Saturdays: 10am - 3pm" and "Closed: Sun - Tues". It does take furniture, housewares, cabinets, appliances, flooring, doors, lighting and plumbing fixtures, provided they are "New or Gently Used Items In Clean, Usable Condition, and Complete Working Order Free of dirt, mold, mildew, or water damage", and its furniture rule - "No mold, water damage, structural damage. No tears, pet hair, odors, or stains" - shows the condition bar even for what it does accept. It also refuses clothes, fabrics such as sheets and comforters, baby and toddler items, dishwashers, windows and residential paint. Source
• Not an option: O'Fallon has nothing mattress-specific. The city's own Bulky Items page exists to answer exactly the question "how do I dispose of large trash items?" - the FAQ that asks it simply says "See the Bulky Items page for details" - and the whole of its answer is the contracted hauler's weekly allowance: "1 bulk item per week (must be scheduled)", with residents told to "Visit WM O'Fallon Page and scroll down to service guides and instructions to learn how to schedule a bulk pickup." No mattress recycler, dismantler, MRC/Bye Bye Mattress drop-off, retailer take-back or city recycling route for mattresses is named by the city, and none exists on the Illinois side of this metro area: Illinois is not an MRC state and runs no statewide mattress program. A mattress booked as O'Fallon's weekly bulk item leaves the curb as ordinary municipal solid waste. 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