Everything you need to get rid of leftover paint responsibly in Tupelo.
604 Crossover Rd, Tupelo, MS 38804
The Three Rivers 2025 plan encourages Tupelo residents to call Public Works at 662-841-6457 before bringing household hazardous waste. WM’s page writes the address as 604 Crossover Drive; the city writes 604 Crossover Rd. The city’s own Public Works page lists the address and phone but doesn’t describe the drop-off. Mississippi has no PaintCare program.
5395 Highway 145 South, Verona, MS
The date, hours, address and item list come from a Daily Journal news story quoting Lee County Administrator Ronnie Bell, not from a Three Rivers web page; we found no current Three Rivers website. Bell said the events are expensive and only a couple are held each year. The news story gives no ZIP code. Mississippi has no PaintCare program.
Call Public Works at 662-841-6457, then drop them at 604 Crossover Road during the hours the Three Rivers 2025 plan lists (Monday–Thursday, or Friday before 11 a.m.). Keep them out of the WM cart, which doesn’t take paint.
The Three Rivers 2025 plan describes the Public Works drop-off as for Tupelo residents. Use the Three Rivers collection day instead; it’s free for Pontotoc County residents. Call 662-489-2415 for the next date.
Public Works takes paints and pesticides from Tupelo residents. Electronics and appliances are collected at the Three Rivers collection day, and the Lee County Transfer Station takes appliances. Call both numbers before you load up.
Rubbish landfills in the Three Rivers area can’t take paint or paint buckets, and the collection day doesn’t take roofing shingles. Paint from a business isn’t covered by the sources we found; call Public Works at 662-841-6457.
Call Tupelo Public Works at 662-841-6457, then bring your paint to 604 Crossover Road during the hours the Three Rivers 2025 plan lists: Monday–Thursday 7 a.m.–4:30 p.m. or Friday 7–11 a.m. Don’t put paint in your WM trash cart; WM lists it as not accepted. If you live elsewhere in Lee County, use the free Three Rivers collection day, which the plan says is typically held each spring (the 2026 day was March 21 in Verona).
Tupelo, Mississippi, in Lee County, has a year-round place for household paint: the Tupelo Public Works Department at 604 Crossover Road. The Three Rivers Solid Waste Management Authority’s 2025 plan says Tupelo residents can bring paints, pesticides and other household chemicals there during business hours, and encourages them to call 662-841-6457 first. Three Rivers also typically holds a free spring collection day in Lee County; the 2026 one was at the MSU Agricenter in Verona.
The Three Rivers 2025 plan encourages Tupelo residents to call 662-841-6457 before bringing household hazardous waste. Ask what they’ll take that day and whether latex and oil-based paint are handled the same way. The plan lists Friday hours ending at 11 a.m.
WM collects Tupelo’s trash twice a week in a 96-gallon cart. Its Tupelo page lists household hazardous waste, including paint, oil and household cleaners, as not accepted, and sends it to Public Works instead. Tupelo Water & Light’s rate sheet lists WM at 662-844-5523.
Mississippi DEQ says that when no collection is available, dried latex can go out with the garbage, lid off. In Tupelo a drop-off is available, and your hauler, WM, says no paint in the cart. Take paint to Public Works rather than drying it for the trash.
The Three Rivers 2025 plan describes the Public Works drop-off as for Tupelo residents. The plan says Three Rivers typically holds a free Lee County collection day each spring; in 2026 it was March 21 at the MSU Agricenter in Verona. It’s open to residents of Lee, Pontotoc, Itawamba, Monroe, Calhoun, Lafayette and Union counties.
The Three Rivers plan says Class I and II rubbish landfills, like Tupelo’s Wondura site, can’t take paint or paint buckets. It lists the Lee County Transfer Station (281 County Road 1282, 662-844-2003) for appliances and tires, not paint.
Mississippi has no PaintCare program, so stores don’t take paint back. Mississippi DEQ suggests giving usable paint to a theater group, school, Habitat for Humanity or similar group, but we found no Tupelo group that publishes a paint policy. Lee County’s own recycling drop-off at 281 County Road 1282 takes aluminum cans only, per Mississippi DEQ. In 2026 Three Rivers also held a collection day on March 14 at the Lafayette County Arena in Oxford for the same seven counties. Unlike Jackson, which has a separate Environmental Service Center for household hazardous waste, Tupelo uses its Public Works Department, and you call ahead.
Call 662-841-6457 first and ask what they’ll take, whether latex and oil-based paint are handled the same, and whether any limit or fee applies. Plan Friday trips for before 11 a.m., the plan’s Friday closing time. Keep paint out of the WM cart while you wait. For the Three Rivers day, leave household trash, sofas, roofing shingles, helium tanks and unknown substances at home; they won’t be taken. Tires are limited to 25 per person.
Full preparation checklist →At the Tupelo Public Works Department, 604 Crossover Road. The Three Rivers 2025 plan lists Monday–Thursday 7 a.m.–4:30 p.m. and Friday 7–11 a.m., and the drop-off is for Tupelo residents. Call 662-841-6457 first.
No. WM, which collects Tupelo’s trash, lists household hazardous waste, including paint, as not accepted in the cart.
The 2026 Lee County day was held Saturday, March 21, 2026, at the MSU Agricenter in Verona. The Three Rivers plan says it’s typically held each spring. Call 662-489-2415 for the next date.
The Three Rivers 2025 plan describes the Public Works drop-off as being for Tupelo residents. Other Lee County residents can use the free Three Rivers collection day, or call Public Works at 662-841-6457 to ask.
The Three Rivers collection day is free for residents of its seven counties. No fee is published for the Public Works drop-off; ask when you call.
Checked October 17, 2026: the Three Rivers Solid Waste Management Authority’s Solid Waste Management Plan, Comprehensive Update 2025 (the main source for the Public Works drop-off and its hours), WM’s Tupelo residential page, the City of Tupelo Public Works page, Tupelo Water & Light’s 2025 garbage rate sheet, the Daily Journal’s March 13, 2026 story on the Lee County collection day, Lafayette County’s 2025 notice, Mississippi DEQ’s household hazardous waste page and Lee County recycling directory entry, PaintCare’s state list and PaintCare’s locator data (no Tupelo-area listing). Lee County’s solid waste website (leecoms.com) refused connections. We found no current Three Rivers website. Unresolved: whether Public Works takes latex and oil-based paint alike; any quantity limit or fee; whether non-residents or businesses may use it; the date of the next Three Rivers collection day; whether the Tupelo Habitat ReStore takes paint. We made no phone calls.
Checked October 17, 2026 against these sources, not by phone. How we research.
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