How to get rid of a mattress in Shorewood, 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.

• Not an option: Shorewood offers no drop-off of its own, and self-hauling in Will County is not a real alternative. The Village's garbage and recycling page names no public works yard, transfer station, convenience center or residents' drop-off day; its only non-curbside service is the At Your Door home collection for motor oil, paint, batteries and electronics. The Village is not a member of a township compactor program on its own page, and Homewood Disposal's Will County transfer stations operate a one-ton minimum that rules out a single household load. For a Shorewood resident the routes are therefore the free weekly bulk item at the curb, a paid extra item booked with Waste Management, or the unlimited free collection on the day after the Village-wide garage sale. Source
• The nearest reuse outlet to Shorewood publishes no mattress policy at all, which is itself worth knowing before a reader loads a car. The Joliet ReStore, run for Will County Habitat for Humanity at 1395 N Larkin Ave, Joliet (815-714-7100), takes drop-off donations "9 - 3:00 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday" and charges "a $25 pick-up fee to help off-set driver and our truck operational costs" for a collection. Its donations page names no accepted or refused item list; instead it states "All donations are subject to staff review and approval before they can be accepted. For this reason, we are unable to approve donation requests over the phone." Habitat ReStores checked elsewhere in Illinois refuse mattresses outright, and the Joliet store's own page neither accepts nor refuses them, so a Shorewood reader cannot rely on it. Sharing Connections, the DuPage furniture bank that refuses used mattresses in writing, does not list Shorewood in its pickup area in any event. Source Not confirmed: No published mattress or box spring policy could be found for the Joliet ReStore, so whether it would take a mattress is not established - only that it will not decide by phone. Not confirmed: No Shorewood-based thrift shop, shelter or furniture bank with a published mattress policy was found.
• Not an option: Shorewood's own contract rules out the answer a reader is hoping for. Article IX separates the streams by destination and puts mattresses on the wrong side of the line: "White Goods shall be collected and transported to permitted sites for disposal in accordance with applicable laws"; "E-Waste shall be collected and transported to permitted sites for processing and recycling in accordance with applicable laws in the State of Illinois"; and "Bulk Items shall be collected and transported to permitted sites for disposal in accordance with applicable laws." Since the agreement's own definition of Bulk Items is "items including, but not limited to, pianos, beds, box springs, mattresses, sofas, furniture, furnishings, fixtures", a Shorewood mattress is contracted for disposal, with no recycling obligation on the hauler. There is no mattress recycler, take-back or diversion program published for Shorewood, and Illinois runs no statewide mattress recycling program. 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