How to get rid of a mattress in Orland Hills, 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.

• Orland Hills publishes nothing at all about bulky items or mattresses, and that is the complete answer. The Village's own site has no refuse or public works page: under Local Services it lists only "Waste Management - www.wm.com" among utilities such as AT&T, ComEd and Nicor, and the only refuse item in its news archive is a weather-delay notice from January 28, 2019. WM's own Orland Hills community page carries the full service guide and says "Orland Hills has partnered with WM to provide residential waste service", "WM provides a 96 gallon cart for weekly trash collection", "Place container on the street with wheels against the curb by 6 a.m. on collection days and remove same day", "Keep container at least three (3) feet from parked cars, mailboxes, and other obstacles", "All trash should be bagged. Do not overfill your container - the lid must close tightly", and lists acceptable items as "standard household trash like food waste, chip bags, paper towels, plastic bags, and textiles" with non-acceptable items "construction waste, auto parts, tires, household hazardous waste (paint, oil, household cleaners), medical or electronic waste." Neither the Village nor WM publishes a bulk-item allowance, a bulky-item fee, an appliance fee, a clean-up day or any mattress rule for Orland Hills - in contrast to WM's own published Northfield guide, which does set out a one-free-bulk-item-per-week rule. Source Not confirmed: Whether Orland Hills has any bulk-item allowance at all could not be established: no Village page and no WM Orland Hills page publishes one, and no rate for a booked bulky-item pickup is published. Not confirmed: No Village clean-up day, drop-off site, mattress-specific program or local charity with a published mattress policy is published for Orland Hills. Not confirmed: No published mattress wrapping requirement was found for Orland Hills in either the Village code or the hauler's page.
• The Orland Hills code is where the useful local rules actually are, and it draws the line renters need to know about. Chapter 50, Garbage and Refuse, section 50.02(A): "The Village will contract with a private scavenger for the collection of garbage, ashes, and rubbish, for all owners of residential household units not exceeding three dwelling units per single building. (Condominiums are considered private dwellings and are included in this division.)" Section 50.02(B) puts "apartments (having more than three family units)" outside the contract entirely, and section 50.25 makes that explicit: "In apartments of four units or more, the owner shall have his own private scavenger." A mattress is inside the code's own definitions: "MISCELLANEOUS HEAVY RUBBISH. Such items as discarded furniture and appliances for which any household in the village no longer has any use", and WASTE expressly includes "discarded household furniture, furnishings, fixtures and appliances of all kinds". Section 50.20(A)(4) says "No receptacle will be required to hold such items as household appliances and furniture." The set-out window is section 50.22(A): "Garbage and trash receptacles shall be placed at the edge of the alley or on the parkway between the hours of 6:00 p.m. on the day preceding collection until 7:00 p.m. on the day of collection." Section 50.03 requires any scavenger-for-hire removing waste from Village premises to hold a Village license, and section 50.05 makes it unlawful for a scavenger to store or dispose of refuse within the Village or within one mile of it without Board permission. Every one of these sections carries "Penalty, see section 50.99", and fees under section 50.26 "shall be prescribed by the Village President and Board of Trustees from time to time." Source Not confirmed: The amount of the penalty under section 50.99 could not be read: the section renders in the code viewer but its text was cut off in the page body that could be retrieved, so no fine figure is recorded. Not confirmed: The code does not set a bulk-item allowance, a mattress wrapping rule or a bulky-item fee - it leaves the fee to Board resolution, and no resolution figure is published online. Not confirmed: The chapter dates largely from Ordinance 84-02 (1984) and refers to alley collection and ash receptacles, so how closely it describes the current WM cart service is not established.
• Orland Hills does publish an illegal-dumping prohibition, which is the answer for the reader tempted to leave a mattress on a verge or in a vacant lot. Chapter 93, Health and Sanitation, section 93.25(A): "No person, firm, or corporation shall dump, deposit, place, leave, or cause to remain any debris, garbage, abandoned or discarded property, dirt, fill, building materials, or other materials of any nature upon any public or private real property within the village, except when such is being used for the filling, back filling, leveling, grading, construction upon, or landscaping of that real estate upon which a permanent building has been or is being constructed, or except within an enclosed area designed for such purpose upon real estate which is zoned to permit such a use." A discarded mattress is "abandoned or discarded property" on the face of it, and the prohibition covers private property as well as public. The section was adopted by Ordinance 76-29 on December 8, 1976 and amended by Ordinance 86-11, and carries "Penalty, see section 93.99"; section 93.26 treats the same conduct as a nuisance condition. Source Not confirmed: The fine under section 93.99 could not be read; the chapter's table of contents lists it but its text was not retrievable in the page body, so no penalty amount is recorded. Not confirmed: The code does not name a mattress specifically; the reading rests on "abandoned or discarded property" and "other materials of any nature".

• 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