How to get rid of a mattress in Olney, 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.

• Olney makes trash collection compulsory, buys it from Republic Services and caps it at two totes. The City's Utility & Trash Services page states: “Garbage service is mandatory for all Olney residents. Republic Services provide city-wide garbage pickup for commercial and residential customers. Residential garbage is picked up once a week on Thursdays. Republic Services provide a maximum of 2, 90 gallon totes to each household. Totes need to be placed at the curb by 5:00 a.m. on the day of pickup. Totes should be placed with the opening side toward the street. Totes should be placed at least 3 feet from any other object such as mailboxes, utility poles or parked cars. If 2 totes are being used, they should be placed side by side with no distance between totes. Totes must be removed from curb side within 24 hours of pickup.” Accounts are opened at City Hall, 300 S. Whittle Avenue, with photo identification and, for renters, a lease or rent receipt; “Homeowners without a past history with the City of Olney and persons wanting water turned on at rental property, are required to make a $125 deposit”, credited back after twelve consecutive on-time payments. “water/sewer/garbage/recycling bills should be received by customers by the 25th of each month. Bills are due on the 5th of each month.” Nothing on the page permits anything outside the two totes, and no bulky-item pickup, allowance or fee is described. Source Not confirmed: The page publishes no monthly garbage rate. Not confirmed: No curbside bulky-item route is published at all: a mattress cannot go in a 90-gallon tote and the page offers no alternative. Not confirmed: No fee is published for an extra or oversized item.
• Not an option: Olney has stopped recycling altogether, which is worth saying plainly before anyone drives there. The City's Recycling page reads in full: “Due to the difficulties presented in the current recycling market, recycling in Olney is suspended. It is our sincere hope to reinstate a recycling service as soon as possible.” There is no drop-off site, no accepted materials list and no alternative named. Richland County runs no waste service either, so there is no recycling route of any kind published for an Olney household - and certainly none that would take a mattress. Source Not confirmed: The page is undated, so when the suspension began and whether it still stands is not established. Not confirmed: No alternative recycling site is named by the City.
• Olney's Street Department handles streets and leaves, not household bulk. The City's page states: “The Street Department is responsible for the maintenance and repair of streets, ditches, culverts and storm water facilities. The Street Department also has a tree removal program which is in accordance with the Tree Ordinance 96-19, and also operates the Leaf Collection Program.” It is at 1139 S. Oak Street, Olney, IL 62450, under Supervisor Tyler Kocher at (618) 395-3265, streets@cityofolney.com, Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. No bulky-item collection, no special pickup and no clean-up week is among its duties, which is consistent with Olney handling bulk through its periodic dumpster drop-off rather than at the curb. The City also runs a Brush Dump for landscape waste, referred to in the drop-off announcements and in the City's news feed for its summer hours. Source Not confirmed: The Street Department page gives no brush dump address or standing hours; only the news feed carries its summer hours. Not confirmed: No bulky-item or special pickup service is described anywhere in the City's department pages.

• 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