How to get rid of a mattress in Shiloh, 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.

• Shiloh publishes the actual contract rates behind the free cleanups, which is rare and lets a resident see exactly what the two cleanups a year are already paid for. The Republic Services rate sheet the Village publishes, headed "Weekly Trash and Yard Waste Services with Every-Other-Week Recycle", runs five contract years from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2028: trash $11.17, $11.62, $12.08, $12.56 and $13.06 a month; recycle $6.75, $7.02, $7.30, $7.59 and $7.89; yard waste $10.30, $10.71, $11.14, $11.59 and $12.02. The current year, 2/1/26 to 1/31/27, is therefore $12.56 a month for trash and $7.59 for recycling. A senior rate is published alongside at "Senior Rate 15%, 65+" - $9.49, $9.87, $10.26, $10.67 and $11.09 - and the conditions are stated: "Households consisting of no more than 2 persons in which the head of household is 65 years of age or older are eligible to receive a 15% monthly discount. Please contact Republic Services to apply (618) 656-6883." Billing is direct: "Pricing above is a monthly rate but residents are billed quarterly by Republic Services." The hauler is Republic Services, 4601 Cahokia Creek Road, Edwardsville IL 62025. Source Not confirmed: The rate sheet prices trash, recycle and yard waste only; the two free personalized cleanups and the $50 bulk minimum are not shown on it, so whether the cleanups are funded inside the monthly trash rate is not stated.
• Shiloh's nuisance chapter is what bites if a mattress sits out, and it carries a five-day clock and a lien rather than a flat fine. Sec. 90.01(G), from Ord. 2022-11-07A, declares it a nuisance "To deposit or pile up any rags, old rope, paper, iron, brass, copper, tin, aluminum, ashes, garbage, refuse, plastic, brush, litter, weeds, slush, lead, glass bottles or broken glass upon any lot, piece or parcel of land or upon any public or private alley, street or public way within the village, or to place same so that it can be blown about or scattered by the wind." Sec. 90.01(P) adds "To permit or maintain an unsightly yard or premises where there is an accumulation or deposit of any operable or inoperable, unlicensed vehicle, equipment, junk, wrecked or disabled automobiles, trucks, material of any nature, waste or earth accumulation of vehicle parts in excess of seven days" - a seven-day tolerance for material of any nature in a yard. Sec. 90.01(A) covers causing "any rubbish, garbage, filth or dangerous substance to be collected, deposited or to remain in any place". Sec. 90.01(N) is the rule that constrains the hauler rather than the resident: it is a nuisance "To conduct any building operations, refuse collection, deliveries and/or trash pickups between the hours of 10:00 pm and 7:00 am; the use of which is attended with loud or unusual noise audible to residents within the village." Burning is not an alternative - Sec. 90.01(M) allows only yard waste generated on the property, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm in the windows March 15 to June 1 and October 15 to December 15, and makes it "unlawful to burn or dispose of construction materials on site". Enforcement runs through Sec. 90.02: village staff serve "a written notice to abate the nuisance within five days after such notice has been duly served", stating what the nuisance is, where it is, the five-day deadline and that if it is not abated and no hearing is requested "the village will abate it and assess the costs against the person"; a hearing must be requested in writing to village staff at #1 Park Drive, Shiloh, Illinois within that time "or it will be conclusively presumed that a nuisance or prohibited condition exists". Sec. 90.03 lets the village recover the cost as a special assessment and a recorded lien under 65 ILCS 5/11-31.1-1 where a citation required "the removal of garbage and debris", compliance failed on re-inspection and the cost went unpaid. Sec. 90.99 sends the penalty to the Village's general penalty at Sec. 10.99. Source Not confirmed: Sec. 90.99 refers the penalty to Sec. 10.99 of the Shiloh code, which was not read, so the fine range for a nuisance in Shiloh is not established here. Not confirmed: The Shiloh code sets no set-out window for refuse containers and no wrapping or bagging rule; those come from the Republic guidelines the Village publishes, not from the ordinance.
• The ordinance Shiloh cites for its exclusive hauler is not in Shiloh's codified code, which is worth knowing before anyone tries to read the terms for themselves. The Village's Code of Ordinances, published by American Legal Publishing, puts refuse where it is not: Title V: Public Works contains only "Chapter 50. SEWERS" and "Chapter 51. WATER". Title IX: General Regulations contains Chapters 90 (Nuisances; Health and Sanitation), 91 (Parks and Recreation), 92 (Streets and Sidewalks), 93 (Animals) and 94 (Cemetery). Title XI: Business Regulations contains Chapters 110 (Liquor Control), 111 (Peddlers, Itinerant Merchants, and Solicitors), 112 (Amusements), 113 (Hotel/Motel/Short-Term Rental Tax), 114 (Special Events), 115 (Business Licenses), 116 (Municipal Cannabis Retailers' Occupation Tax) and 117 (Cable and Video Service Providers). There is no garbage, refuse or scavenger chapter anywhere in the Shiloh code. So the statement on the Village's own web page that "Village ordinance prohibits contracting with another hauler for trash service at your home" rests on an ordinance that has not been codified and is not published - a resident cannot read the terms of the exclusivity, only its existence. Source Not confirmed: The ordinance creating the exclusive Republic Services arrangement is not codified and not published by the Village, so its terms, its expiry and whether it binds multi-family properties could not be established.
• A Shiloh household that has used both free cleanups and would rather not pay the $50 minimum has one published alternative: drive it. St. Clair County's Health Department names the two licensed landfills in the county - "Milam Recycling & Disposal Facility, 601 Madison Road, East St. Louis, IL 62201, Hours: Mon.-Fri. 3 am- 5pm, Sat. 5 am- 12pm, (618) 271-6788" and "Cottonwood Hills Recycling & Disposal Facility, 10400 Hillstown Road, Marissa, IL 62257, Hours: Mon.-Fri. 5 am-4 pm, (618) 295-2809" - and states the acceptance rule: "Illinois landfills will not accept tires, white goods (water heaters, refrigerators etc.), household hazardous wastes or liquid paint. If you are unsure if your item will be accepted please contact the landfill to inquire before dropping it off." Mattresses are not on that refusal list. From Shiloh the two are roughly equidistant, Milam about sixteen miles west and Cottonwood Hills about twenty-two miles south. The county also reminds residents "Contact your City Hall or Village Hall to find out if they offer trash service in your area." Source Not confirmed: Neither landfill publishes a gate rate or minimum load charge, so a self-haul mattress has no established price. Not confirmed: No proof-of-residency rule is published for either site.
• Not an option: O'Fallon Township, which covers Shiloh alongside Shiloh Valley Township, runs no waste service either. Its own site describes township government as "designed to serve the basic needs of the community and to provide social services and road maintenance", and its published services are General Assistance, a Food Pantry, Hall Rental and Rotary Wheels, alongside a Road District and periodic rummage sales; its office is at 801 E. State Street, O'Fallon, IL 62269, (618) 632-3517. There is no clean-up day, large item pickup, dumpster day or drop-off site in its services, news or events. Taken with St. Clair Township, which runs a yard waste site that refuses household trash, and Caseyville Township, which runs none, no township serving this group of cities offers the free large item route that Nameoki Township provides in Madison County. Source Not confirmed: Shiloh Valley Township, which covers part of the village, publishes no website that could be checked.

• 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