How to get rid of a mattress in Woodridge, 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.

• Woodridge threw out its sticker system in 2024. The Village page says "The Village has entered into a new five-year contract with Groot that began on September 1, 2024", bringing "Unlimited flat-rate collection of refuse, recycling, and yard waste" with "Stickers no longer needed for refuse or yard waste." Groot supplies refuse carts in 35, 65 or 95 gallon sizes and "A 15% Senior discount rate will apply to seniors 65 and older." Leaf collection runs "Six weeks (formerly four) of free leaf collection beginning on November 1." Set-out is tight: "REFUSE MUST BE PLACED AT THE CURB BY 7 A.M.", material may go out after 3 p.m. the day before, and carts "must be removed by 8 p.m. the day of your scheduled pick-up." Collection runs Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday by zone, drawn around Hobson Road, I-355 and 75th/83rd Streets. Groot Industries takes calls at 888-485-0900; the Village at 630-719-2905. Source
• Groot's own Woodridge page states the weight test that decides whether the free item stays free: "Residents will be provided curbside collection of one bulk items, under 50 pounds, which can be safely collected by one Groot collector." Items over 50 pounds incur additional charges. Acceptable bulk items are described as boxes, barrels, crates and household furniture that cannot fit standard containers and can be lifted by a single driver. White goods - refrigerators, washers, dryers, freezers, air conditioners, furnaces, dishwashers, stoves, water heaters, humidifiers and dehumidifiers - need advance scheduling and a separate price, because "the Illinois EPA has prohibited the disposal of items containing chlorofluorocarbon gases". Construction material must be "securely tied in bundles no bigger than 4 feet long, 2 feet in diameter and up to 50 pounds" or placed in a 35-gallon container. Groot does not name mattresses on the Woodridge page, and publishes no figure for what an over-50-pound bulk item costs. Source Not confirmed: Neither Groot nor the Village publishes the surcharge for a bulk item over 50 pounds, which is where a queen or king mattress set is likely to land.
• Not an option: Woodridge residents have no self-haul option in DuPage County. The County's recycling page runs electronics recycling at municipal and township drop-off sites, clothing and textile partnerships, the Naperville Household Hazardous Waste facility and paint recycling, and nothing else; furniture and mattresses appear on none of them. For material outside the curbside cart the County offers only its Recycle Coach search tool. There is no county-run transfer station, convenience center or drop-off day in DuPage that accepts a household mattress, which is why the free weekly bulk item matters so much here. Source
• Not an option: The nearest Habitat ReStore to Woodridge - DuPage and Chicago South Suburbs Habitat for Humanity at 858 Rte 59, Naperville, IL 60540, donation doors Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., about five miles away - will not take a mattress. Its donate page accepts furniture including "Bookshelves, buffets/sideboards, tables, nightstands, chairs, sofas" and bed frames, working appliances, kitchen cabinets, doors and windows, lighting and flooring, but its published refusal list is "Items we cannot accept: Cribs; Textiles (clothing, curtains, bedding, linens); Used ladders; Mattresses", plus hazardous chemicals and broken items. A usable Woodridge mattress has no Habitat route. Source
• Not an option: There is nothing mattress-specific for a Woodridge household. Illinois runs no statewide mattress program and is not a Mattress Recycling Council state, so no Bye Bye Mattress site exists here. LRP Recycling, the one named mattress recycler advertising into the area, is explicitly commercial - "Nationwide Commercial Recycling and Installation for Mattresses, Furniture and Electronics", sold to "Schools, Hotels, Municipalities and the Military". It lists Naperville, Aurora and Joliet among its Illinois service areas but gives no Illinois address, only its head office at 84 October Hill Road Suite 1, Holliston, MA 01746, and publishes no household prices or drop-off terms. Neither the Village nor Groot says whether the mattress Groot collects is recycled or landfilled. 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