How to get rid of a mattress in Rolling Meadows, 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.

• The City of Rolling Meadows, not a hauler, has run residential refuse itself, billing it on the monthly water bill, and the Refuse and Recycling page sets out the household rules a mattress set-out has to meet. "The earliest time you may set your refuse, yard waste, and recycling materials at the curb is 6 p.m. on the day before collection. During the months of November, December, January, February and March, refuse can be set out at 3 p.m. the day before collection." Everything "must be at the curb no later than 6 a.m. on collection day", material set out late "will not be picked up until the following week, and must be moved back inside by the resident no later than 7:00 p.m. on collection day", and storage between collections must be inside a shed or garage, or in a side or rear yard screened from the street, under Ordinance No. 12-35. Backdoor collection can be authorized by the Director of Public Works for the elderly, ill and disabled on evidence of hardship. For anything that does not qualify as regular service the page states: "The City provides special pick up services at rates set to recover direct costs. There is a minimum charge of $50 for all special pick-up collections. Please call the Public Works Department at 847-963-0500 for a special pickup quote. There is no charge for the price quotation. Payment must be made prior to the special collection being made." Curbside recycling has been collected under contract by Flood Brothers (630-261-0400). The City is a SWANCC member and describes the agency as transferring and disposing of member waste through the Agency-owned Glenview Transfer Station. Source Not confirmed: The $50 special-pickup minimum is the pre-transition City rate; the page had not been updated for the LRS residential contract that starts September 28, 2026, under which special pickups are billed to the City rather than the resident. Not confirmed: The page does not state the monthly residential refuse charge.
• Not an option: There is no Rolling Meadows site a resident can take a mattress to. The City's item-classification table routes every self-haul item to one of three places and mattresses to none of them: the Recycling Center on Central Road (open 24/7) takes corrugated boxes, paper, cans, glass, plastics and steel cans only; the Public Works Facility at 3900 Berdnick Street (Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) takes fluorescent tubes up to 4 feet, alkaline and rechargeable batteries, sharps and dry oil-based paint; and the SWANCC/Special column takes tires, car batteries, propane tanks, engine blocks, sheds, garden chemicals, gasoline and antifreeze. Mattresses and cabinets are curbside-only. The City has owned the transfer station at 3851 Berdnick Street since it was built - the Thomas A. Waldron Transfer Station, operated under lease by Lakeshore/LRS for nearly three decades and now on a new lease and host agreement - but neither the City nor the operator publishes a household gate rate, hours for residents or a mattress price for it. Source Not confirmed: Whether the LRS-operated Rolling Meadows Transfer Station at 3851 Berdnick Street accepts walk-in residential loads, and what it charges for a mattress, is not published: the LRS facility page renders only through JavaScript and states no rates, and the City's lease and host agreements address the City's own waste, not self-haul.
• Not an option: Nothing mattress-specific exists in Rolling Meadows, and the collection agreement says where a mattress actually ends up: "The Contractor shall collect and remove all properly prepared Bulk Items listed in Exhibit 1... and transport the Bulk Items to the Rolling Meadows Transfer Station or such other facility designated by the City. If a Bulk Item is not an acceptable material at the Rolling Meadows Transfer Station, Contractor shall transport such item to a disposal facility selected by the Contractor." Recycling obligations in the agreement run to the curbside recycling cart stream, not to bulk items; no mattress dismantling, recovery or diversion is promised anywhere in the contract, the City's item-classification table or the transition page. There is no mattress recycler, no Bye Bye Mattress collection site and no retailer or manufacturer take-back published for the city. Source
• Not an option: Rolling Meadows publishes no reuse or donation route for bedding. The City's item-classification table - which is the exhaustive published list of where each household item may go - offers only curbside collection, the Recycling Center, the Public Works Facility and SWANCC special collections, and names no charity, furniture bank, shelter or thrift shop for furniture or mattresses. No Rolling Meadows charity publishes a mattress acceptance or refusal policy on its own page. Source Not confirmed: No local reuse organization with a published mattress policy could be identified for the northwest suburbs; the only donation points found were national chains, which this page already covers elsewhere.

• 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