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by | Feb 27, 2021

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California Staff

Daria Kent

Senior California Program Coordinator
(530) 559-3274

  • Butte
  • Colusa
  • El Dodrado
  • Glenn
  • Humboldt
  • Lake
  • Lassen
  • Marin
  • Mendocino
  • Napa
  • Nevada
  • Placer
  • Plumas
  • Sacramento
  • Shasta
  • Sierra
  • Solano
  • Sonoma
  • Sutter
  • Tehama
  • Trinity
  • Yolo
  • Yuba
Terri Marsman

California Program Manager
(209) 404-8625

  • Alameda
  • Contra Costa
  • Monterey
  • San Benito
  • San Joaquin
  • Santa Clara
  • Santa Cruz
  • San Joaquin
Brandon Nelson-Zarrahy

Senior California Program Coordinator
(818) 900-8117

  • Los Angeles (West)
  • San Luis Obispo
  • Santa Barbara
  • Ventura
Aaron Scott

California & Oregon Program Coordinator
(541) 452-3586

Del Norte
Modoc
Sikiyou

Monica Choi

California Program Coordinator
(209) 206-6992

  • Alpine
  • Amador
  • Calaveras
  • El Dorado
  • Fresno
  • Kings
  • Madera
  • Mariposa
  • Merced
  • San Francisco
  • San Mateo
  • Stanislaus
  • Tuolumne
  • Tulare
Iranzu Morras

Senior California Program Coordinator
(323) 204-2080

  • Inyo
  • Kern
  • Los Angeles (East)
  • Mono
  • Orange (North)
  • San Bernardino
Valentina Hopkins

Senior California Program Coordinator
(949) 415-9035

  • Imperial
  • Orange (South)
  • Riverside
  • San Diego

Contact

For general PaintCare inquires, call (855)PAINT09 or email .

For California-specific inquires, contact a California program coordinator.

Program Details

  • Established in October 2012
  • 872 year-round drop-off sites
  • 35 million gallons collected

PaintCare offers drop-off sites throughout California where the public can take unwanted paint for recycling. These sites are available to households, businesses, government agencies, and others with leftover paint.

Additional Information

Annual Reports | Paint Stewardship Law | Requirements for California Retailers | Official Documents | Order Brochures and Materials

Drop Off Paint

Enter your zip code, city and state, or street address to find the nearest, most convenient paint drop-off site to you. All PaintCare sites accept up to 5 gallons per visit (some take more). Please call ahead to confirm business hours and ask if they can accept the type and amount of paint you would like to recycle. Sites do not accept aerosols (spray paint), leaking, unlabeled, or empty containers.

If you can’t find a paint recycling location using our site locator tool, please try our other locator tool here.

Paint Drop-off and
Giveaway Events

for Households & Businesses

Visit our PaintCare Products page for
more information on accepted products.

Fee and Funding

PaintCare programs are funded by a fee (referred to as the PaintCare fee) which is applied to the purchase price of new paint sold in the state. There is no charge for dropping off paint at a PaintCare drop-off site. The PaintCare fee is not a tax or a deposit. The fee funds all aspects of the paint stewardship program. For more information on the fee, visit the PaintCare Fee Page.

The fee in California is based on container size as follows:

$0.00

Half pint or smaller

$0.30

Larger than half pint up to smaller than 1 gallon

$0.65

1–2 gallons

$1.50

Larger than 2 gallons up to 5 gallons

On July 1, 2022, a fee reduction took effect in California. PaintCare is offering a credit for the difference in fees before and after a fee change on inventory purchased prior to the change and sold after the change. Learn more about this fee credit at paintcare.org/fee-credit

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