How to get rid of a mattress in Savoy, 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.

• Savoy is a village that collects nothing and says so. Its own FAQ states "The Village does not provide yard waste or electronics recycling services. Residents are required to contract with a private service provider." There is no municipal refuse collection, no bulky item allowance, no clean-up week and no village drop-off; the only facility the village points residents to is the Landscape Recycling Center, "a not-for-profit municipal enterprise that accepts local organic yard waste and debris" at (217) 344-5323, which charges tipping fees by material and quantity and takes organic yard waste only - not mattresses. Savoy therefore matches its Champaign County neighbors: Champaign and Urbana collect nothing bulky either, and the county has no mattress program. Source Not confirmed: The Republic Services transfer station at 921 Saline Ct, Urbana is the nearest disposal site a Savoy household would use, but Republic publishes no residential gate rate, mattress fee or drop-off hours for it - the gap that also affects Champaign and Urbana remains open.
• Because Savoy sets no hauler contract, the terms a resident actually faces are the subscription hauler's, and the one that names Savoy publishes a policy but not a price. Illini Recycling states "Illini Recycling currently provides curbside garbage service to Champaign, Savoy and Mahomet neighborhoods", offers curbside recycling with paid garbage service, and sets the bulky rule as "Bulk Items or Excessive Amounts subject to additional charges and must be arranged for pickup in advance by calling our office at 217-356-0648", with mattresses given as an example of a bulk item needing advance arrangement. No dollar figure, no included allowance and no weight or volume limit is published for a Savoy address, so the hauler's own page meets the standard for a named policy but not for a published price. A Savoy household's curbside route for a mattress exists, but nobody publishes what it costs. Source Not confirmed: Illini Recycling publishes no price for a bulky item or a mattress at a Savoy address, and no free allowance; "subject to additional charges" is the whole of the published term. Not confirmed: No other hauler serving Savoy publishes mattress terms, and the village licenses none by name.
• What Savoy does regulate is the curb, and its window is twelve hours either side of collection - tighter than most. Chapter 8.36 of the village code (Containment and Removal of Garbage and Waste Material) requires at 8.36.010 that every owner, occupant or tenant "which receives garbage collection services shall provide, keep and maintain appropriate containers sufficient to securely hold all refuse/garbage", of "metal, plastic or rubberized composition", "water-tight, equipped with securable lids". Placement is fixed: containers "shall be placed, for purposes of periodic pick-up, at a location not less than two feet or more than twelve (12) feet from the curb or pavement edge directly adjacent to the property upon which said garbage and/or waste material was generated." The timing rule follows: "At all times, (excepting within the time constituting twelve (12) hours preceding an expected waste pick-up time and twelve (12) hours following an expected waste pick-up time); garbage/refuse and/or waste material containers shall be removed from street right-of-way areas." Title 8's nuisance article makes "Illegal Dumping" a nuisance for "Any person(s), contractor(s) or other entities who accumulate on any property junk, building materials, trash, garbage, landscape waste or noxious or hazardous materials, or any person, contractor, or other who dumps, throws, casts, or deposits such above materials on another person's property or upon public property or railroad or street or highway rights-of-way without prior approval", and makes it a nuisance to allow waste containers to sit out except "on the day the owner has the trash in the container scheduled for removal". Source Not confirmed: Title 8's general nuisance penalty was not isolated in the code text read; the only fine range recovered from Title 8 belongs to the adopted fire code ($50.00 to $750.00), which does not govern dumping. The dollar penalty for illegal dumping in Savoy is therefore not established.

• 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