Free Paint Recycling Drop-off Event

Free paint recycling event for Households and Businesses in the Jamaica-Queens Area

Registration Required

What Products & Quantities Can You Bring?

Households may bring any amount of paint, stain, and varnish. Limits apply to businesses.

Paintcare Products

Paint must be in sealed, original container with original manufacturer label. This event is for the following products only:

• House paint and primers (latex or oil-based)
• Stains
• Deck and concrete sealers
• Clear finishes (e.g., varnishes, shellac)

Non-Paintcare Products

• No leaking, unlabeled, or empty containers
• No aerosol spray paints
• No drums or containers larger than 5 gallons
• We cannot accept other hazardous waste or chemicals such as paint thinner, solvents, motor oil, spackle, glue, adhesive, roofing tar, pesticides, cleaning chemicals

Business Limits

To use PaintCare drop-off sites and events for oil-based paint, a business must qualify as an exempt generator under federal and any analogous state hazardous waste generator rules. Please visit www.paintcare.org/VSQG for more information on exempt generator rules. If your business does not qualify as an exempt generator, it will not be able to use the PaintCare drop-off sites and events for oil-based paint, but it can still use them for latex products.

Non-exempt generators in New York may use PaintCare’s pickup service; contact PaintCare for more details.

Paint manufacturers created PaintCare to provide convenient places to recycle leftover paint, such as paint retail stores
and paint drop-off events. To learn more or find a year-round PaintCare drop-off site near you, visit www.paintcare.org or call (855) PAINT09.