How to get rid of a mattress in Wood River, 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.

• Wood River Township is not a second free route, and it says so in its own words - so the Nameoki Township model that gives Granite City a free twice-yearly large-item pickup does not repeat in this part of Madison County. The township's Trash page states that "Wood River Township does not provide trash services"; the Supervisor's office keeps an active listing of trash providers, "but it is up to each household to contact the trash haulers and set up this service", naming Aspen, Republic and Sparks Junk Removal & Hauling as providers. On its own facility it is explicit: "Household waste cannot be taken to the Township Dump on 8th St." The only township collection offered is yard waste - residents may call the Highway Department at 618-259-2490 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday to schedule pickup of paper bags of yard waste and limbs on Thursdays and Fridays. The page's only other facility is the Madison County Household Hazardous Waste Collection Site at 249 N. Old St. Louis Road in Wood River, by appointment on the 1st and 3rd Fridays, 8am-3pm, which takes hazardous materials and not mattresses. The township serves Wood River, East Alton, Cottage Hills, Roxana and parts of Bethalto and Hartford from 49 S. 9th Street, East Alton. Source Not confirmed: The township does not say what the 8th Street dump does accept, only that household waste is excluded.

• 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