Paint recycling
in Alaska.
Paint disposal in Anchorage and the rest of Alaska. Alaska has no PaintCare program, so stores don’t take paint back. You use your city or borough’s household hazardous waste site, and Alaska DEC says unused latex paint can be dried solid and thrown away.
Check your local rules.
Alaska DEC treats paint from homes as household hazardous waste and strongly recommends keeping it out of the landfill: reuse it or ship it out for proper disposal. It says one option for unused latex paint is to open the can and let it dry solid, then throw it away. Paint from businesses and schools isn’t household waste, and they must manage it as hazardous waste. Keep paint from freezing if you want to reuse it; DEC says frozen paint is no longer usable. Local programs set their own rules. Anchorage takes oil-based and spray paint free for residents up to 40 pounds and says to dry latex for the trash. PaintCare’s locator lists household hazardous waste sites or events in other places too, such as Fairbanks, Juneau, the Mat-Su Borough and the Kenai Peninsula; check each program’s own page before you go.
No free state program.
Alaska doesn’t have a statewide paint program, so it depends on your city or county. Each city guide shows where latex and oil-based paint can go.
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Spray cans, thinner and other chemicals?
Paint stores won’t take these. Take them to your local household hazardous waste site. Your city guide lists it.
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