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

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
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