How to get rid of a mattress in Washington, 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: Washington residents have no drop-off that takes a mattress, and the one site the City does send them to is in another town and takes something else. The City's page names exactly one: "MORTON DROP-OFF - AREA-Morton, 1090 W. Jefferson St., Morton, IL. Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Saturday 8:00 a.m. - Noon (seasonally). Phone: (309)263-2390", and the only thing published for it is "Yard Waste - Residents who do not want subscription services can drop off yard waste at AREA-Morton for $2.50 per bag." GFL's own sheet for that site adds a free drop-off for e-waste, used oil and cardboard, with ID and an account in good standing - and nothing else. The City's other drop-off is the glass recycling container "at the entrance of Georgetown Road (south of the BUS24/Mount Vernon Drive intersection)". The regional alternative is closed to Washington residents: the Peoria Transfer Station's free residential load requires a Peoria County ID and Washington is in Tazewell County. So the $15 curbside pickup and the free April clean-up week are Washington's routes, and self-hauling is not one. Source
• Not an option: There is nothing mattress-specific for a Washington resident, and the City's own chosen reference proves it. Washington's garbage page links the "Tazewell County Recycling Resource Guide", which is the Tazewell County Health Department's Recycling Resources page; that page lists waste haulers (Waste Management, GFL, Republic Services, Better Earth Logistics), municipality-specific recycling links and general recycling and US EPA guidance, and never mentions mattresses, box springs, bulky items, furniture or a mattress recycler. The City's own diversion streams are every other week curbside recycling, the Georgetown Road glass drop-off, subscription yard waste, and the e-waste, used oil and cardboard drop-off at GFL's Morton office. A Washington mattress goes out as bulky waste for $15 or in the April clean-up week, and no recycling route is published for it. Illinois is not a Mattress Recycling Council state and operates no statewide mattress 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