Everything you need to get rid of leftover paint responsibly in Muncie.
701 E Centennial Ave, Muncie, IN 47303
Call 765-282-1900 before you load latex. The Muncie Sanitary District sponsors the free drop-off; East Central Recycling runs the site. The Muncie Sanitary District office (300 N. High St.) is a different address; paint goes to Centennial Avenue.
4640 W Bethel Ave, Muncie, IN 47304
This is for good paint someone can use, not for disposal. Call 765-288-1814 before bringing paint. The ReStore also schedules donation pickups through an online form.
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.
701 E Centennial Ave, Muncie, IN 47303
2031 Mounds Rd, Anderson, IN 46016
3939 Garthwaite Rd, Gas City, IN 46933
1717 Pleasant St, Noblesville, IN 46060
From PaintCare’s drop-off map ↗, updated October 6, 2026. Hours and limits are PaintCare’s. Distances are straight-line, not driving.
Take them to East Central Recycling, Monday–Saturday. It’s free for Delaware County homes. Keep the labels on and the lids tight.
Call 765-282-1900 first and ask if latex is being taken. If yes, bring it in. If no, dry it out with cat litter and put it in the trash once it’s hard.
Go Saturday morning and arrive before 11:30 a.m. Any Delaware County household can use the site, so you don’t need to be a Muncie Sanitary District customer.
Donate them to the Muncie Habitat ReStore, 4640 W. Bethel Ave., Tuesday–Saturday. Call 765-288-1814 to check first.
East Central Recycling’s free drop-off is for households only, not businesses. Call 765-282-1900 to ask what options a business has.
Take paint to East Central Recycling, 701 E. Centennial Ave., Muncie: free for Delaware County households, weekdays until 4:30 p.m. and Saturdays until 11:30 a.m. Oil-based paint has been taken. Call 765-282-1900 before bringing latex, because the sources disagree on it.
In Muncie, Indiana, household paint goes to East Central Recycling at 701 E. Centennial Ave. The Muncie Sanitary District sponsors it as the free household hazardous waste drop-off for everyone in Delaware County. It’s open six days a week. Oil-based paint has been taken there. For latex, sources disagree, so call 765-282-1900 first. Indiana has no paint recycling program, so stores don’t take paint back.
East Central Recycling takes household hazardous waste free from any Delaware County home, not just Muncie Sanitary District customers. That includes Delaware County towns such as Yorktown, Daleville, Eaton and Albany. The page doesn’t say what proof of address staff check.
Posted hours are 8 a.m.–5 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m.–noon Saturday. The site stops taking the public a half hour before closing, so the real cutoff is 4:30 p.m. weekdays and 11:30 a.m. Saturday.
The district’s page names “paint” only in a glossary of hazardous products, not as a list of what it takes. The district’s 2020 guide says “no latex.” Yet the same site shipped 56,948 pounds of latex to a paint recycler in 2020. Call 765-282-1900 and ask if latex is being taken now.
The Muncie Sanitary District takes empty, rinsed paint cans with tin and steel recycling. Cans with paint left in them are on the “do not recycle” list.
The Muncie Habitat ReStore, 4640 W. Bethel Ave., lists paint and stain among the donations it takes. It’s open Tuesday–Saturday, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
There’s no free store take-back in Indiana. If East Central Recycling won’t take your latex, Indiana’s environment department (IDEM) says paint can go in the regular garbage once it is completely dry. Clay cat litter speeds that up. Never pour paint down a drain. Usable paint can go to the ReStore, a theater group or a neighbor.
Keep paint in its original can with the label on and the lid tight. Check the label: “water cleanup” means latex; “mineral spirits” or “alkyd” means oil-based. Pack cans upright in a box. Have your ID handy in case staff ask where you live. Arrive before 4:30 p.m. on weekdays or 11:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Full preparation checklist →At East Central Recycling, 701 E. Centennial Ave. It’s the free household hazardous waste drop-off for Delaware County residents. Call 765-282-1900 to check on latex.
Yes, for Delaware County households with waste from their own home. Businesses, farms and industry can’t use it.
Yes. The Muncie Sanitary District says the service is free to all Delaware County residents, not only Muncie customers.
No Muncie rule on this was found. IDEM says paint can go in regular garbage only if it is completely dry. Ask East Central Recycling first whether it will take your latex.
Yes. Muncie’s curbside program takes empty, rinsed paint cans with tin and steel. Cans with paint still in them can’t be recycled.
October 15, 2026: read the Muncie Sanitary District household hazardous waste page (free for Delaware County residents, home waste only, no commercial, industrial or farm waste, closes a half hour early), its sanitation page (East Central Recycling at 701 E. Centennial Ave., construction materials charged), its what-to-recycle page (empty rinsed paint cans accepted, partly full cans not), its household hazardous waste page lists paint only in a glossary of hazardous products, not as an accepted-items list; its February 2021 board report (56,948 pounds of latex and 1,432 pounds of oil-based paint in 2020), the East Central Indiana Solid Waste District guide (PDF dated December 2020: oil-based paint and “no latex” at East Central Recycling; ReStore for full, usable neutral gallons), Muncie–Delaware Clean & Beautiful’s recycling page, the Muncie ReStore page, IDEM’s household hazardous waste page, and PaintCare’s listing (“certain paints,” call). Unresolved: whether liquid latex is taken today (sources conflict; no phone call was made), what proof of residency is checked, any gallon limit, options for businesses, and the ReStore’s paint conditions. No Muncie-specific rule on dried latex in trash carts was found; IDEM’s statewide guidance is used.
Checked October 15, 2026 against these sources, not by phone. How we research.
