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1 paint drop-off site within 12 miles.
- Fairbanks North Star Borough Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility · FNSB Household Hazardous Waste FacilityHazardous waste site2.5 mi
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Fairbanks North Star Borough Household Hazardous Waste Facility (Solid Waste Facility, Sanduri Street)
455 Sanduri St, Fairbanks, AK 99701
- Accepts
- Latex and oil-based paint, along with solvents, fuels, motor oil, antifreeze, corrosives, oxidizers, poisons and batteries. No explosives, medical, radioactive or unidentified waste.
- Who can use it
- Fairbanks North Star Borough households, including City of Fairbanks residents. Very small businesses need an appointment (907-459-1364) and can drop off only on the 4th Thursday of each month, with the borough’s VSQG form.
- Hours
- The borough says households can drop off here Tuesday through Saturday. It doesn’t print hours for the hazardous waste building. The landfill gate itself is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Call ahead so staff are there to take your paint.
- Load limits
- No household limit is published. Businesses: up to 220 pounds (about 26 gallons) a month.
- Fees
- Free for borough households. Small businesses pay by the gallon; paint, including latex, is $9.70 a gallon for FY27 (effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027), 1-gallon minimum.
This is the one borough site where you can drop off paint and get your empty container back. Keep latex and oil-based paint in separate, sealed, labeled cans. The borough lists paint and any container holding more than a gallon of liquid as banned from regular trash.
Fairbanks North Star Borough Solid Waste: hazardous waste ↗Fairbanks North Star Borough: FY27 recycling and household hazardous waste fee schedule (PDF) ↗Fairbanks North Star Borough: Solid Waste Division (transfer site rules, landfill hours) ↗City of Fairbanks FAQ: what can and cannot go in the garbage ↗
City of Fairbanks Public Works free curbside hazardous waste pickup (city garbage customers)
City of Fairbanks Public Works, 2121 Peger Road, Fairbanks, AK 99709 (pickup is at your curb; don’t bring paint here)
- Accepts
- Paint, solvents, cleaning chemicals, motor oil, transmission and brake fluid, antifreeze, pesticides, petroleum products and cooking oil.
- Who can use it
- Homes on City of Fairbanks garbage service. Business waste isn’t picked up at the curb.
- Hours
- On your regular garbage day. Public Works phones are answered Monday to Thursday, 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (closed noon to 12:30 p.m.); closed Fridays.
- Load limits
- No limit published.
- Fees
- Free. But if paint or other hazardous waste is found inside your trash bags, the city adds a $100 charge per violation to your garbage bill.
Set paint next to your trash, apart from the bags, ideally in a cardboard box. Call 907-459-6770 ahead so trained staff can be sent; otherwise pickup may be delayed while a special trip is arranged.
Fairbanks North Star Borough residential transfer sites with hazardous waste totes
Borough transfer sites; for example Farmers Loop West, 2180 Farmers Loop Road, Fairbanks, AK 99707 (more sites under cautions)
- Accepts
- Household paint in its container, left in the hazardous waste collection tote. Keep oil-based, latex and spray paint apart, in original labeled cans.
- Who can use it
- Borough residents who live outside the City of Fairbanks. Borough code reserves the transfer sites for them; city residents and businesses may not use them.
- Hours
- The borough doesn’t post transfer-site hours on the pages we read. Green Star of Interior Alaska, a local nonprofit (not the borough), lists Badger Road, Chena Pump and both Farmers Loop sites as open 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, and Chatanika, Ester, Fox, Moose Creek and North Pole as open 24 hours.
- Load limits
- No limit published. Household waste only.
- Fees
- Free.
The borough says you can drop off containers and contents at transfer sites that have collection totes. It doesn’t list which sites have totes. Green Star of Interior Alaska, a local nonprofit guide (not the borough), lists these sites as taking paint. The street addresses match the borough’s own transfer-site directory: Badger Road (889 Holmes Road), Chatanika (5749 Old Chatanika Road), Chena Pump (2395 Old Chena Ridge Road), Ester (2535 Little Shot Road), Farmers Loop East (301 Old Steese Highway N), Farmers Loop West (2180 Farmers Loop Road), Fox (284 Goldstream Road), Moose Creek (3485 Old Richardson Highway) and North Pole (2740 Old Richardson Highway). The borough directory also lists Salcha (8121 Richardson Highway), which Green Star’s paint list doesn’t include. Look for the tote before you leave paint, and call 907-459-1482 if there isn’t one. Never pour paint on the ground or into a dumpster.
1 paint drop-off site within 12 miles of Fairbanks.
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.
Fairbanks North Star Borough Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility · FNSB Household Hazardous Waste Facility
2.5 mi455 Sanduri St, Fairbanks, AK 99707
- Who
- Households and VSQG Businesses in Fairbanks
- Hours
- Tuesday - Saturday, 8 am - 4 pm. Facility may be closed during lunch hours.
- Products
- This site does not accept empty, dry or leaking paint containers.
- Notes
- Commercial waste accepted by appointment only on the 4th Thursday of each month. Call (907) 459-1364. Fees apply.
From PaintCare’s drop-off map ↗, updated October 6, 2026. Hours and limits are PaintCare’s. Distances are straight-line, not driving.
Which option fits your Fairbanks cleanout?4
You live in the city and have three cans of old wall paint
Put them in a cardboard box beside your trash on garbage day and call Public Works at 907-459-6770 so a trained crew comes. It’s free. Don’t tuck them in a trash bag; that can add $100 to your bill.
You live off Chena Ridge or out in Ester
Borough residents outside the city can leave paint in the hazardous waste tote at a transfer site that has one. Green Star, a local nonprofit guide, lists Chena Pump (2395 Old Chena Ridge Road) and Ester (2535 Little Shot Road) among sites that take paint. You won’t get the can back. To keep your container, take it to 455 Sanduri St on a Tuesday to Saturday.
Paint that sat all winter in an unheated shed
Frozen paint is often ruined and the cans may have split. Put any leaking cans in a tub or box, label them, and bring them to the Sanduri Street facility. Don’t pour them out or leave them by a dumpster.
A small painting company cleaning out its shop
Businesses can’t use transfer sites or curbside pickup. Call 907-459-1364 for a 4th-Thursday appointment, send the VSQG form, and stay under 220 pounds a month. Paint is $9.70 a gallon.
Fairbanks rules and tips5
THE LOCAL ANSWER
Don’t put paint, latex included, in your trash. City of Fairbanks residents: set it beside your cart in a box on garbage day and call Public Works at 907-459-6770; it’s free, but paint found in trash bags costs $100. Anyone in the borough can bring it free to the Household Hazardous Waste Facility at 455 Sanduri St, Tuesday to Saturday (call 907-459-1482 first).
Fairbanks, Alaska takes paint free from households, but where you take it depends on where you live. City of Fairbanks garbage customers can set paint by the curb for a free special pickup. Everyone in the Fairbanks North Star Borough can use the borough’s hazardous waste facility at 455 Sanduri Street, and residents outside city limits can also use hazardous waste totes at borough transfer sites that have them. Unlike Anchorage, the borough lists latex as hazardous waste, not trash.
City residents: curbside pickup, not the bag
The City of Fairbanks asks you to set paint, solvents and other household chemicals next to your trash, ideally in a cardboard box, for free pickup on your garbage day. Call 907-459-6770 so trained staff can be sent. If crews find paint inside a trash bag, the city adds $100 per violation to your garbage bill.
Sanduri Street takes latex and oil-based paint
The borough’s Household Hazardous Waste Facility at the Solid Waste Facility, 455 Sanduri St, takes latex and oil-based paint free from borough households, Tuesday to Saturday. It’s the only borough site where you can get your empty container back. The city suggests calling 907-459-1482 first to make sure staff can take your items.
Outside city limits? Use the transfer site tote
The borough lets households leave paint at transfer sites that have collection totes. Borough code reserves those sites for residents outside the City of Fairbanks, so city residents and businesses can’t use them. The borough doesn’t say which sites have totes. Green Star of Interior Alaska, a local nonprofit guide, lists paint at Badger Road, Chatanika, Chena Pump, Ester, Farmers Loop East and West, Fox, Moose Creek and North Pole.
Here, latex isn’t trash
The borough names paint among items banned from regular trash, along with any container holding more than a gallon of liquid. Both the city and borough lists include paint as household hazardous waste, without carving out latex. So rather than drying latex for the cart, as Anchorage allows, bring it in.
Small businesses: the 4th Thursday
Very small businesses (under 220 pounds, about 26 gallons, a month) can drop off by appointment on the 4th Thursday of each month. Call 907-459-1364 and fill out the borough’s VSQG form. For FY27, paint costs $9.70 a gallon, latex or oil-based, with a 1-gallon minimum.
Free pickup programs and other options
Alaska has no PaintCare program, so stores don’t take paint back, and we found no paint reuse shelf or ReStore paint policy in the borough. The borough’s Central Recycling Facility at 1855 Marika Road takes cardboard, steel and aluminum cans, #1 and #2 plastic bottles and household electronics; paint isn’t on its list. If paint is still good, offer it to a neighbor or group, and keep it from freezing: Alaska DEC notes that frozen paint is often no longer usable and that freezing can split cans.
Getting your paint ready
Keep latex and oil-based paint in separate, sealed, labeled cans, and keep spray cans apart too. Don’t let liquid paint freeze in an unheated garage or shed before you take it in. For curbside pickup, put cans upright in a cardboard box next to your trash, never inside the bag. At the Sanduri Street facility, ask for your empty container back if you want it.
Full preparation checklist →Fairbanks questions5
Can I put dried latex paint in the trash in Fairbanks?
The borough and the city both list paint as household hazardous waste and don’t make an exception for latex. Take it to the hazardous waste facility or, in the city, set it out for free curbside pickup.
Where is the hazardous waste drop-off in Fairbanks?
At the borough’s Solid Waste Facility, 455 Sanduri St. Households can drop off free Tuesday through Saturday. Call 907-459-1482 first.
Can I leave paint at the Farmers Loop or Chena Pump transfer site?
If you live in the borough outside the City of Fairbanks, yes, as long as the site has a hazardous waste tote. Use the tote, not the dumpster. Green Star’s guide lists both sites as taking paint; the borough doesn’t publish which sites have totes. City residents and businesses aren’t allowed to use transfer sites.
What happens if I put paint in my city garbage?
The city charges $100 per violation on your garbage bill when it finds hazardous waste in trash bags. Set paint out separately and call 907-459-6770 instead.
How much does a business pay to drop off paint?
$9.70 a gallon for latex or oil-based paint in FY27, by appointment on the 4th Thursday of the month, up to 220 pounds a month.
Sources and how we checked11
October 16, 2026: read the Fairbanks North Star Borough hazardous waste page, Solid Waste Division page (transfer site code, landfill hours), Central Recycling Facility page and FY27 recycling and household hazardous waste fee schedule (PDF, read as text); the City of Fairbanks garbage FAQ, garbage requirements page ($100 violation fee, call-ahead pickup) and Public Works contacts; Green Star of Interior Alaska’s paint guide (transfer site addresses and hours, updated June to July 2026); Alaska DEC’s household hazardous waste fact sheet; and PaintCare’s program states. Unresolved: the borough doesn’t publish hours for the hazardous waste building itself; PaintCare’s data lists Tuesday to Saturday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., possibly closed at lunch, and Green Star lists the landfill’s full hours, so we tell readers to call. The borough’s transfer-site map page shows no list, and its transfer-site directory gives addresses but not which sites have totes, so that list is credited to Green Star, a nonprofit guide, and readers are told to look for the tote. A web search summary claimed Badger Road and North Pole don’t take paint; Green Star’s current page lists both as taking it. Neither source says whether dried latex is allowed in borough trash; we report paint as listed. No household quantity limit is published. Its 2025 recycling guide PDF is an image we couldn’t read as text.
Checked October 16, 2026 against these sources, not by phone. How we research.
Fairbanks North Star Borough Solid Waste: hazardous waste ↗Fairbanks North Star Borough: FY27 recycling and household hazardous waste fee schedule (PDF) ↗Fairbanks North Star Borough: Solid Waste Division (transfer site rules, landfill hours) ↗Fairbanks North Star Borough: Central Recycling Facility ↗City of Fairbanks FAQ: what can and cannot go in the garbage ↗City of Fairbanks Public Works: garbage requirements and guidelines ↗City of Fairbanks Public Works: recycling information and contacts ↗Green Star of Interior Alaska: FNSB recycling and reuse guide, paint ↗Alaska DEC: household hazardous waste fact sheet (PDF) ↗PaintCare program states ↗PaintCare drop-off site locator ↗
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