How to get rid of a mattress in Schaumburg, 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.

• LRS's own Schaumburg page states the hauler's side of the contract and supplies the bulk-item allowance the Village page leaves out: "Up to 2 bulk items will be collected as long as each item is under 50 pounds and under 2 cubic yards", alongside "LRS will take 2 cubic yards of additional waste". On mattresses it states that "Mattresses and box springs are requested to be wrapped in plastic to be collected at the curb/street side" and that the plastic must be "completely taped and secured on all corners with no exposure to the mattress" - a stricter statement of the wrapping rule than the Village's own wording. It repeats the set-out time - "Garbage, recycling and yard waste shall be placed curbside the day of collection no later than 7 a.m." - and states that "Upon request, LRS will provide collection of major appliances, including but not limited to ovens and refrigerators", billed separately. Carts are provided at no cost to the resident. Source
• Not an option: Schaumburg's drop-off programs are extensive and none of them takes a mattress. The Village's Recycling page lists its own drop boxes for CFL bulbs, cell phones and household batteries at Temporary Village Hall (1000 E. Woodfield Rd.), Engineering and Public Works (714 S. Plum Grove Road) and the Al Larson Cultural Center (201 Schaumburg Court), plus a holiday light and copper wire drop-off with Elgin Recycling at the same locations. It publishes a table of electronics recyclers - AVA Recycling in Addison, Protech Environmental in Elk Grove, Best Buy at 900 E. Golf Road in Schaumburg, the Elk Grove Township Recycling Center (Elgin Recycling) at 145 S. Weiler Road in Arlington Heights, EZ Electronics in Buffalo Grove, Com2 Computers in Carol Stream and Abt in Glenview - and a list of household hazardous waste facilities in Naperville, Rockford and on Goose Island in Chicago. Every one of these is scoped to electronics, bulbs, batteries, wire or chemicals; mattresses, box springs and furniture appear on none of them. The non-curbside items list names yard waste, plastic bags, bulbs, electronics, hazardous waste, textiles and the like - furniture is not diverted anywhere. Schaumburg runs no municipal yard, transfer station or residents' bulky-waste drop-off day. Source
• Not an option: There is no mattress-specific program or recycler for Schaumburg. The Mattress Recycling Council states it runs "recycling programs in states that have enacted mattress recycling laws" and lists California, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Oregon; Illinois has no such law and no Bye Bye Mattress site. A search for a dedicated mattress recycler, retailer take-back or manufacturer program serving Schaumburg produced only junk-removal marketing pages and directory listings without a published mattress rate or facility terms, which do not meet the standard for listing; the Village's own published list of local recyclers (Elgin Recycling, AVA, Protech and the rest) is confined to electronics, bulbs and metals. The Village's LRS collection treats a wrapped mattress as residential waste and nothing published says it is recycled. Source Not confirmed: Whether the plastic wrapping Schaumburg requires is for worker safety or for any recovery process, and where LRS takes Schaumburg mattresses, is not published.
• Not an option: Neither Habitat ReStore near Schaumburg will take a used mattress. Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley runs ReStore Arlington Heights at 955 E. Rand Road, Arlington Heights, IL 60004 (Tuesday through Sunday, 10:00am - 5:30pm) and ReStore Elgin at 800 N. State Street, Elgin, IL 60123 (Tuesday through Sunday, 9:00am - 4:30pm), each roughly eight to ten miles from Schaumburg. Its published materials acceptance sheet accepts "All furniture. Upholstered must be in excellent condition-no stains, rips etc." but lists "Used mattresses" under "WHAT WE CANNOT ACCEPT". The sheet says the list "is based on current inventory and sales" and gives 847-742-9905 for questions. Free pickup runs on a one to two week wait and items must be sheltered from the weather; priority pickup fees start at $145. Source

• 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