How to get rid of a mattress in Troy, 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.

• Troy has a large-item service in its hauler contract but publishes no terms for it - the weakest disclosure of the five Metro East cities checked in this batch. The City's Waste & Recycling page says only that "The City of Troy and Allied Waste negotiated terms and rates for trash, recycling, large pick-up, and yard waste services", names the hauler as "Allied Waste (Republic Services of Edwardsville)", and gives 618-656-6883 and republicservices.com plus an online bill-pay link at troyil.ourcommunityconnect.com. The operational rules it does publish are the holiday schedule - six holidays (New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day), with collection "delayed one day" when a pickup day falls on or after a holiday and "If the holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, there will be no change in the collection schedule" - and the set-out window: "All residential pick-up services shall be made between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m." Nowhere does the city state how many large pickups a household gets, whether any are free, what a mattress costs, how much notice is needed, or whether mattresses are accepted at all. Troy is served by the same Republic Services division out of Edwardsville that gives Glen Carbon, Highland, Edwardsville and Alton four free bulk pickups a year, but Troy does not publish the same allowance and it cannot be assumed. Source Not confirmed: Troy publishes no free allowance, no item limit, no fee, no notice period and no mattress rule for large pickup - only that such a service is in the contract. Not confirmed: The city publishes no monthly refuse rate and no copy of the Republic Services contract or rate schedule. Not confirmed: Whether Troy shares the four-free-pickups-a-year term its neighbors publish could not be established from any city or hauler page.
• Troy runs no drop-off site, and its second waste page adds nothing for a mattress. The Brush / Yard Waste / Recyclables page covers only burning and yard waste: "Yard Waste (leaves/branches - no grass clippings) may be burned within City Limits ONLY on Wednesdays & Saturdays between dawn and dusk" as of October 3, 2022, while burning of yard waste and construction materials is otherwise prohibited within city limits; residents may subscribe to Republic Services yard waste collection using "yard waste bins or use approved leaf collection bags". No city yard, transfer station, compost site, convenience center or clean-up day drop-off is named, and no instruction is given for large items, appliances or mattresses. Troy's Dispose Of page likewise carries only a link to the brush and yard waste page. A Troy resident who wants to haul a mattress themselves is pointed to nothing by the city. Source Not confirmed: The city names no alternative facility for large items, so the nearest public drop-off for a Troy resident is not published by the city.
• Troy's municipal code confirms the gap rather than filling it: Chapter 50 contains no collection program at all. The chapter, headed "GARBAGE AND TRASH", runs 50.001 Definitions, 50.002 Prohibited deposits generally, 50.003 Combustible waste material, 50.004 Windblown waste material, 50.005 Burning waste material, 50.006 Grass and grass clippings, 50.007 Placing waste material in container of another person, 50.008 Waste material from industrial processes, 50.009 Parking or standing of hauling trucks and 50.010 Prima facie evidence of violations, then a Litter Control subchapter (50.025 to 50.030) and an Open Burning subchapter (50.045 to 50.049), closing with 50.999 Penalty. There is no section establishing a city collection service, no container or set-out section, no bulky-waste or large-item section and no fee schedule - the chapter is entirely prohibitory. Its cross-references are to abandoned vehicles (§§ 70.40 to 70.44) and nuisances (Ch. 91; § 131.15), and its statutory references are the Litter Control Act (ILCS Ch. 415, Act 105, § 1) and the municipal power to provide for disposal of refuse (ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, §§ 11-9-1 et seq.), a power Troy has exercised by contract rather than by ordinance. Source Not confirmed: Because the collection service sits in a contract rather than the code, no ordinance sets Troy's set-out window, container rules or bulk-item allowance.
• Troy's illegal-dumping rule is § 50.025 of the city code, and it carries an explicit exemption for city clean-up days. Subsection (A) provides that "No person shall dump, deposit, drop, throw, discard, leave, cause or permit the dumping, depositing, dropping, throwing, discarding or leaving of litter upon any public or private property in this city unless: (1) The property has been designated by the city or any of its agencies for the disposal of litter, and the litter is disposed of on that property in accordance with the applicable rules and regulations of the State Pollution Control Board; (2) The litter is placed into a container intended by the owner or tenant in lawful possession of that property for the deposit of litter; (3) The person is the owner or tenant in lawful possession of the property or has first obtained the consent of the owner or tenant in lawful possession...; (4) The person is acting pursuant to special cleanup days established by the City Council of Trustees; and/or (5) The person is lawfully acting in or reacting to an emergency situation..." Section 50.026 adds that "No person shall transport, by any means, garbage or refuse from any dwelling, residence, place of business, farm or other site to and deposit the material in, around or on top of containers placed along public highways or at roadside rest areas." Exemption (4) is the only trace in Troy's law of a municipal clean-up event; the city publishes no current one. Source Not confirmed: The code contemplates "special cleanup days established by the City Council" but the city publishes no schedule for any such day.
• Troy prices illegal dumping at $10 to $500 an offense. Section 50.999 provides: "(A) Any person violating any provision of this chapter for which no specific penalty is prescribed shall be subject to § 10.99. (B) Any person convicted of a violation of § 50.025 shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $500. (C) Any person convicted of a violation of §§ 50.025 through 50.030 shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $500. (D)(1) Whoever violates any provision of §§ 50.045 through 50.049 for which another penalty is not provided shall be fined not more than $750, plus court costs and reasonable attorney's fees, for each offense. Each day's violation constitutes a separate offense." Illegal burning - which is what a resident tempted to burn a mattress would be doing - is separately tariffed: "First offense $75", "Second offense Not less than $150 and up to $750 plus court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees if a hearing is sought", with a settlement route: "To avoid prosecution for a first or second offense under these sections, a violator may within ten days of receiving a citation settle the citation by payment of two-thirds of the specified fine at the City Hall." Source
• Nothing mattress-specific exists for Troy, and the hauler's Troy page is a template, not a source of local terms. Republic Services' Troy, IL location page carries no Troy-specific allowance, fee, notice period or mattress rule; its only mattress language is generic marketing that appears identically on every Republic location page - "Need to remove an old mattress or refrigerator? Let us do the heavy lifting with a bulk trash pickup" - and it names no price. No dedicated mattress recycler, Bye Bye Mattress or MRC collection site, retailer take-back program or city or state mattress program serves Troy: Illinois runs no statewide mattress program, and no Illinois mattress recycler publishing household terms has been found anywhere in the state. The nearest named mattress operation in the St Louis metro, Earthbound Recycling in Eureka, Missouri, requires delivery and publishes no mattress price or policy, so it is not a route a Troy resident can be sent to. Source Not confirmed: Republic Services publishes no Troy rate card, so the cost of a large pickup in Troy is unknown from any primary source.
• Troy's township adds nothing either. Jarvis Township, which covers Troy as well as Glen Carbon, lists on its own site only a Supervisor, an Assessor's Office, a Road Commissioner and Road District, a Clerk, assistance programs and the Township Board, with road work limited to "oil & chip" surfacing. No waste collection, township dump, clean-up day, dumpster day or large-item pickup appears anywhere on the site. So the free township large-item route that exists at Granite City through Nameoki Township has no counterpart for Troy: the only municipal route is whatever the city's unpublished Republic Services contract provides. Source Not confirmed: The township publishes no waste page, so the absence rests on what the site lists rather than an express statement.

• 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