Everything you need to get rid of leftover paint responsibly in Florence.
702 Veterans Drive, Florence, AL
The flyer's image file is named for spring 2024 and says more information was to come, so treat its list as the most recent posted one, not a current notice. Alabama has no PaintCare program.
5100 Highway 157 North, Florence, AL 35633
The City of Florence's landfill page lists Lauderdale County Solid Waste at 5700 Hwy 157 with phone 256-760-5874; the county's own page gives 256-760-5878. The county's two pages also differ on set-out time (5:00 a.m. on one, 5:30 a.m. on the other). Alabama has no PaintCare program.
29485 County Road 14, Florence, AL 35633
This is not a paint drop-off. For Saturday disposal the city points to the North Alabama Transfer Station, 5450 Hwy 157 (256-760-7189), and Lauderdale County Solid Waste, 5700 Hwy 157. Alabama has no PaintCare program.
Your state doesn’t have a PaintCare program, so stores here don’t take paint for free. These are the public drop-off programs PaintCare’s map lists, closest first. Most only serve their own residents and some charge a fee. Call before you go.
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From PaintCare’s drop-off map ↗, updated October 6, 2026. Hours and limits are PaintCare’s. Distances are straight-line, not driving.
Keep them out of the green cart; the city doesn't pick up paint. Hold them for the Household Hazardous Waste Day, which takes oil-based paint up to 30 gallons. Call 256-760-6495 for the date.
ADEM allows trash disposal only as a last resort, with no free liquid and the residue sealed in a leak-resistant bag. Florence says it doesn't pick up paints, so ask Solid Waste & Recycling (256-760-6495) whether dried latex is OK in your cart before you try it.
County crews won't take liquids, paints or wet paint cans. Call the Lauderdale County Solid Waste office at 256-760-5878 (open Saturday mornings too) and ask where to take them.
Florence doesn't collect construction debris; contractors must haul their own. The city landfill takes nonhazardous C&D waste by the ton. The Hazardous Waste Day refuses commercial waste, and none of the city's pages name a place for paint from paid work.
Call Florence Solid Waste & Recycling at 256-760-6495 and ask when the next Household Hazardous Waste Day is; the city's flyer takes latex paint and oil-based paint up to 30 gallons at the Florence-Lauderdale Coliseum, 702 Veterans Drive. Don't put paint in your green cart: Florence doesn't pick up liquids, paints or hazardous materials. Outside city limits, call Lauderdale County Solid Waste at 256-760-5878.
This guide is for Florence, Alabama, in Lauderdale County, Alabama. The City of Florence doesn't pick up paint and has no year-round paint drop-off. Its answer is a Household Hazardous Waste Day at the Florence-Lauderdale Coliseum, 702 Veterans Drive, that takes latex paint and up to 30 gallons of oil-based paint. Sources disagree on the 2025 date: a February 2025 city agenda planned the day for May 17, 2025, but the TimesDaily reported on July 21, 2025 that more than 26 tons were collected "earlier this month." No 2026 date was posted when we checked.
Florence's residential collection rules say the city does not pick up liquids, paints or other hazardous materials. City dumpsters for businesses also exclude liquids and hazardous materials. Ask 256-760-6495 before drying paint for the cart.
The city's Hazardous Waste Day page shows a flyer for the Coliseum at 702 Veterans Drive. It lists latex paint, oil-based paint up to 30 gallons, varnish, turpentine and paint-related materials. It refuses commercial waste and 55-gallon drums. The flyer says "Coming Soon" with no date, and its image file is named for spring 2024.
The city's Feb. 18, 2025 agenda says the day was to be held May 17, 2025. The TimesDaily's July 21, 2025 story says it happened "earlier this month," run by city and Lauderdale County officials, with county residents in line. The flyer says Florence residents only. Call 256-760-6495.
The City of Florence Landfill at 29485 County Road 14 takes only nonhazardous construction and demolition waste from inside city limits, with proof of residency. City residents can also use household-waste dumpsters there. Its fee table lists $40 a ton with a $6 minimum, but an older $20 table still appears on the same page.
Lauderdale County collects garbage everywhere except the Florence and Lexington city limits. Its pickup page says it doesn't pick up liquids, paints or hazardous materials, and to contact the Solid Waste office at 5100 Highway 157 North for disposal. Wet paint cans are banned from county carts. The county's page gives 256-760-5878; the city's landfill page lists Lauderdale County Solid Waste at 256-760-5874.
Alabama has no PaintCare program, so there are no PaintCare store drop-offs. ADEM suggests giving usable paint or thinner to someone who can use a small amount, such as a woodworker or a local theater group. Its brochure says most Alabama communities have no household hazardous waste site. Two other Alabama sites in PaintCare's locator are non-program listings that don't serve Lauderdale County: Huntsville's Handle with Care center (Madison County households only) and Decatur's monthly Public Works collection (Decatur households only, 10 one-gallon buckets a month). The city's recycling drop-offs, including 1200 Terrace Street (open 24/7), and the county sites in Rogersville, Killen, Lexington, St. Florian, Elgin, Greenhill and Waterloo are recycling drop-offs; nothing on the city's pages says they take paint.
Count your oil-based paint: the flyer caps it at 30 gallons. Don't bring 55-gallon drums or anything from a business. If you have no other option, ADEM says you may put the waste in the trash only if no free liquid is left (let it evaporate or soak it into cat litter or sawdust), it's sealed in a leak-resistant bag, and you put out small amounts over several pickups. Florence and the county both say they don't pick up paint, so call first. Never pour paint into a storm drain.
Full preparation checklist →To the City of Florence Household Hazardous Waste Day at the Florence-Lauderdale Coliseum, 702 Veterans Drive, when it's held. No 2026 date was posted when we checked. Call 256-760-6495.
No. The city's residential rules say it does not pick up liquids, paints or other hazardous materials.
The city's flyer sets a 30-gallon limit for oil-based paint. It lists latex paint with no limit stated.
Call Lauderdale County Solid Waste at 256-760-5878. The county doesn't pick up paint and asks residents to contact its office about disposal. Ask the city too (256-760-6495): the flyer says Florence residents only, but the TimesDaily's 2025 photos describe county residents at the event.
The city's page says the landfill takes only nonhazardous construction and demolition waste from inside city limits. It doesn't mention paint. Call the scale house at 256-718-5199 before bringing any.
Checked October 17, 2026: the City of Florence's Hazardous Waste Day page and flyer (the page's only content is the flyer image, read visually), residential collection, landfill, heavy-trash, commercial and Recycle Right pages, its Feb. 18 and June 3, 2025 council agendas, the TimesDaily's July 21, 2025 story (body is paywalled; we used the opening sentence and photo captions), Lauderdale County, Alabama's Solid Waste and Residential Pickup pages, ADEM's household hazardous waste brochure, PaintCare's state list and locator data (no Florence-area listing; Alabama has no program). Searches of the city site found no 2026 event notice. Unresolved: the next event date; whether county residents can use it; the exact 2025 date (agenda says May 17, story implies July); whether dried latex may go in city or county carts; whether the landfill takes dried paint; which county phone number is current (5878 or 5874). We made no phone calls.
Checked October 17, 2026 against these sources, not by phone. How we research.
