How to get rid of a mattress in Sauk Village, 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.

• Sauk Village publishes no bulk-waste program of any kind, and that silence is the finding. The village's Water and Garbage FAQ is the only page it has on refuse. It answers "How am I billed for garbage service and who is the provider?" with "A private company provides scavenger service. The billing for this service is done by the Village and is on the water bill. It is unlawful for anyone other than a licensed scavenger to haul or transport garbage. Call Republic Services at (708) 385-8252 for more information regarding pickup dates." On adding service: "Simply call the Republic Services at (708) 385-8252 and a representative will gladly assist you to establish additional service and answer your questions." On containers: "Each residence is given one tote can. Extra tote cans can be rented thru Republic for a monthly fee... Residents are asked not to put their names on the toters but are allowed to put their addresses on them. The toter should be set out by the curb with the handles facing the street." Nothing on the page states a collection day, a bulk or large-item allowance, a mattress rule, a fee for an extra item, a booking route, a notice period or a wrapping requirement; the village does not even publish its own pickup schedule, referring the question to the hauler by telephone. Republic Services' Sauk landing page carries no local terms either - only the national line "Bulk Waste | Need to remove an old mattress or refrigerator? Let us do the heavy lifting with a bulk trash pickup." Establishing a utility account costs "An administrative fee of $100 plus tax". Source Not confirmed: Whether Sauk Village's Republic Services contract includes a free bulk or large-item allowance could not be established from any village or Republic page; the village publishes no contract, no refuse rate and no collection calendar. Not confirmed: No mattress rule, weight cap, item limit, wrapping requirement, booking route or notice period is published anywhere for Sauk Village. Not confirmed: The village does not publish its garbage collection day.
• Sauk Village's solid-waste ordinance has no bulk provision either, and its containers are capped at thirty gallons - a size no mattress fits. Chapter 62, Article II defines "Approved containers for refuse" as boxes and cartons for non-garbage refuse, metal or plastic cans "constructed so as to be easily emptied by one person" with "a capacity of not more than 30 gallons", and plastic bags "of not less than 1½ mils" whose capacity "shall not exceed 30 gallons". Sec. 62-21(a): "It shall be unlawful for any person to cause or permit refuse to accumulate in any manner other than in an enclosed approved container for refuse." Set-out is fixed by Sec. 62-23(b): containers placed at the curb must be put out "not earlier than 6:00 p.m. on the day preceding the day designated for such collection and removal by a scavenger licensed by the village", and metal or plastic cans "shall be removed to the rear of all premises no later than 6:00 p.m. of the day that removal and collection is made". Sec. 62-20(b) makes it unlawful "to cause or permit any refuse to accumulate anywhere for more than seven days". Sec. 62-28 puts the duty on the householder: "It shall be the duty of each property owner or occupant of property to contract with a scavenger that has been licensed by the village" - even though the village bills for the service on the water bill. Sec. 62-24 forbids depositing refuse on public or private property without the owner's written consent, excepting approved containers on the adjacent parkway. Sec. 62-25 bans burying or burning refuse. Sec. 62-29 sets the penalty: "a fine of not less than $50.00 and not more than $500.00 for each violation", with "A separate violation ... on each calendar day". Article III adds a littering offense whose definition expressly includes "furniture" among the things that may not be dumped, dropped or left on public or private property, with an exception where "The person is acting under the direction of proper public officials during special cleanup days." Source Not confirmed: Chapter 62 contains no bulk or large-item section, no mattress rule and no allowance for anything that will not fit in a 30-gallon container, so the ordinance provides no lawful curbside route for a mattress on its own terms; whether the village's scavenger contract supplies one is not published. Not confirmed: Article III's littering exception for "special cleanup days" implies the village has held them, but no Sauk Village clean-up day, date, site or accepted-items list was found on any village page. Not confirmed: The code does not distinguish single-family from multi-unit households, and the village publishes nothing about how flats are served.
• Sauk Village runs no drop-off: no village yard, transfer point or residents' clean-up day appears on any village page, and Chapter 62 describes none. It is also the farthest of the seven towns from any gate that prices a mattress. Cook County Waste & Recycling's transfer station at 12809 S Homan Ave, Blue Island - roughly thirteen miles north-west - publishes "Mattress - $10 each" alongside "1 ton minimum $85 per ton" for household trash and "2 ton minimum $35 per ton" for inert loads, with a "$5 FUEL SURCHARGE ON TOP OF YOUR TONNAGE PRICE ON EACH AND EVERY LOAD" from May 1 2026, no lithium batteries, liquids, paint or hazardous material, hours of Monday through Friday 7:00 am to 4:00 pm and Saturday 7:00 am to 3:00 pm, and a gate that closes at 3:45 pm on weekdays and 2:45 pm on Saturdays; its published service area is "Alsip, Blue Island, Chicago, Crestwood, Cook County, Frankfort, Oak Lawn, Orland Park, Tinley Park, Will County, Robbins, Country Club Hills and the surrounding areas." Tri-State Disposal's transfer station in Riverdale, already recorded on this site, lists mattresses among accepted materials but publishes no mattress price. Cook County's CHaRM in South Holland refuses mattresses outright. Source Not confirmed: No transfer station or landfill closer to Sauk Village was found publishing household terms for a mattress; the nearer south-east Cook and Will County sites publish no household rate card. Not confirmed: The Blue Island rate card does not say whether the $10 mattress price stands alone or sits on top of the one-ton household-trash minimum.
• Nothing in Sauk Village is mattress-specific, and the village publishes nothing about recycling beyond the fact that Republic distributes recycling toters. No mattress recycler, retailer take-back, MRC site or diversion program appears on any village page or in Chapter 62, and Republic Services publishes no Sauk-specific terms. Illinois runs no mattress stewardship program and has no Bye Bye Mattress collection site; across the Illinois cities researched for this site, no Illinois mattress recycler with published household terms has been found. A Sauk Village mattress has no published recycling route at all, and the nearest gate that even prices one - $10 at a Blue Island transfer station thirteen miles away - is disposal. Source Not confirmed: The village publishes no recycling information of its own, so whether its Republic contract includes any diversion of bulky waste is unknown.
• Not an option: No charity in or near Sauk Village publishes an acceptance, and the nearest that publishes a policy refuses. Restoration Ministries, whose south-suburban thrift stores stand at 14950 Dixie Highway, Harvey and 351 W 162nd Street, South Holland and which offers "free donation pick ups" across the area at 708.876.8413, accepts furniture, appliances, clothing, household items, linens and media but states "*We are unable to accept large, older TVs, mattresses, baby car seats, and cribs." The Salvation Army Family Store & Donation Center at 150 N Halsted St., Chicago Heights, about four miles west and already recorded on this site, is the nearest charity that will consider a mattress, and only one in pristine condition driven in and inspected by the manager. Every Habitat for Humanity ReStore checked for this site refuses mattresses. Source Not confirmed: No charity, shelter or resale shop inside Sauk Village publishes a donations policy, so nothing could be established locally either way.

• 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