How to get rid of a mattress in South Beloit, 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.

• South Beloit is the one town in this group whose hauler publishes no bulky-item rule for it. Rock River Disposal runs the city's residential collection and its City of South Beloit page describes the service in detail - "All residents receive a 95 gallon trash container for unlimited curbside trash collection. Additional trash will need to be placed in cans or bags no larger than 32 gallons in size with each can/bag not weighing more than 50 pounds each"; "Residents may also purchase a 65 gallon tote for $70.00"; "Recycling is included with your weekly service and each resident receives an 18 gallon recycle bin"; "Yard Waste collection is a seasonal service that runs between April- November and would require residents to sign-up for the program in advance before using the service." Nowhere on that page is there a Bulky Item Collection section. The same operator publishes one for every neighboring community it serves - Rockton ("furniture, matresses, grills, etc.", call in advance), Belvidere (one a week, then $35 an item) and Machesney Park (bulk items on the weekly route) - so the omission is specific to South Beloit rather than a gap in the site. The City of South Beloit's own website carries no garbage, refuse or sanitation page at all: its Streets and Parks department page lists street sweeping, catch basins, plowing, alley grading, pavement, mowing, signs and buildings, and refuse appears nowhere in it. Source Not confirmed: Neither the city nor Rock River Disposal publishes any bulky item, large item or special pickup rule for South Beloit, so there is no published way for a South Beloit household to have a mattress collected at the curb, and no published price for one. The absence of a rule is not permission: nothing establishes that a mattress would be taken.
• South Beloit's ordinance goes further than silence: it excludes bulk refuse from the city collection outright. Code of Ordinances ch. 82, sec. 82-25, "Refuse not to be collected", lists what "shall not be collected or disposed of by the city" and includes "(5) Bulk refuse such as cardboard boxes, crates, tree limbs and brush" and "(6) Any bundle or container weighing in excess of 75 pounds." Sec. 82-33 caps the route as well: "No more refuse than the equivalent of three 20-gallon containers shall be collected from each dwelling unit on any collection day unless otherwise specifically authorized. Refuse in excess of this amount shall be removed from the premises within a reasonable time by private means." The set-out window is tight and enforceable: under sec. 82-32, "Refuse shall be set out by the property owner at the point of collection. The point of collection shall be behind the curb and within five feet of the curb for curb collection areas", and "Refuse shall be placed out for collection no earlier than 6:00 p.m. of the day preceding the collection day and no later than 7:00 a.m. of the day of scheduled collection. Containers shall be returned to their original location by 6:00 p.m. on the day of collection." Sec. 82-35 requires all refuse to be stored in sealed containers and fines a breach: a warning letter for the first violation, then "First offense... shall result in a $50.00 charge", "Second offense shall result in a $100.00 charge", "Third and subsequent offense shall result in a $300.00 charge", each "plus assessment or charges incurred by the city with the total of the fine and assessment not to exceed $750.00", added to the city sewer/garbage bill for the address. Service is not optional: sec. 82-34 provides that "Application for sewer service to a residential unit shall automatically be considered application for garbage collection service", that properties off city sewer "will be provided and billed for city garbage collection services automatically", that a $2.50 administrative fee is added to each bill, and that the city may file a lien for unpaid collection fees. Sec. 82-2 makes it unlawful to deposit any solid waste "in or upon any public way or other public place in the city", and sec. 82-21 authorizes the ten-year contract with a licensed scavenger under which Rock River Disposal serves the city. Source Not confirmed: Sec. 82-25(5) gives cardboard boxes, crates, tree limbs and brush as its examples of bulk refuse and does not name furniture or a mattress, so whether a mattress is excluded as bulk refuse or only once it exceeds the 75-pound limit in sec. 82-25(6) is not settled by the text. Not confirmed: The code was read at Supplement 17, codified through Ordinance No. 2825 of October 21, 2024; the current contracted service may be governed by the franchise renewal rather than by the 1972-derived collection sections.

• 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