How to get rid of a mattress in Western Springs, 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: There is no drop-off in Western Springs that takes a mattress. The only resident drop-off the Village and its contractor publish is for polystyrene: "LRS does not accept Styrofoam in recycling carts, but the Village of Western Springs and the Green Team of the First Congregational Church of Western Springs offer a year-round Styrofoam recycling program" at the "Recreation Center, 1500 Walker Street, Western Springs, IL 60558; Northwest Corner of the Parking Lot", "9 AM-12 PM the First Saturday of every Month", with packing peanuts excluded. For household hazardous waste the Village sends residents out of town entirely, to the "CITY OF CHICAGO HHW DROP-OFF SITE, 1155 N. Branch Street, Chicago, IL 60622" and the "NAPERVILLE HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITY, 156 Fort Hill Drive, Naperville, IL 60563", neither of which handles mattresses. No village yard, transfer station or convenience center is offered. Western Springs is not a SWANCC member community - it lies in the western suburbs, outside the northern Cook County agency - so the SWANCC Glenview transfer station is not its residents' route either. The curb is the only published answer here. Source
• Not an option: Nothing mattress-specific serves Western Springs. The Village's contract with LRS enumerates every diverted stream by name - single-stream recycling with one free cart, yard waste and food scraps composting, an organics subscription, electronic waste at one, five or ten stickers depending on size, white goods on a separate truck at ten stickers, the church-run Styrofoam drop-off, and out-of-town household hazardous waste sites - and mattresses appear in none of them. Mattresses are listed only as a bulk item, collected on the regular refuse truck with three stickers, with no statement that they are recycled or dismantled. No Mattress Recycling Council or Bye Bye Mattress site, no dedicated mattress recycler and no retailer or manufacturer take-back program appears in any Village or LRS material for Western Springs. Illinois operates no statewide mattress recycling program for such a facility to plug into. 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