Contact

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

For PaintCare drop-off sites: refer to your PaintCare Drop-Off Site Guidelines and Training Manual to find your local representative.

Program Details

  • Established in May 2014
  • 81 year-round drop-off sites
  • 1.1 million gallons collected

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

A fee increase will take effect in Vermont on May 1, 2024. See Fee and Funding section below to learn more.

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 aerosol coatings, 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.

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 Vermont is based on container size as follows:

$0.00

Half pint or smaller

$0.49

Larger than half pint up to smaller than 1 gallon

$0.99

1–2 gallons

$1.99

Larger than 2 gallons up to 5 gallons

An increase on the fee assessed on the sale of architectural coatings (e.g., house paint, stain and varnish) in the Vermont PaintCare program was approved on October 12, 2023 by the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR). This fee increase will take effect on May 1, 2024.

The increases in the program fee structure are based on container size as follows:

$0.00

Half pint or smaller

$0.65

Larger than half pint up to smaller than 1 gallon

$1.35

1–2 gallons

$2.45

Larger than 2 gallons up to 5 gallons

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