Everything you need to get rid of leftover paint responsibly in Joplin.
1310 West A Street, Joplin, MO 64801
Call before you bring oil-based paint, because the city’s lists disagree. The 2014 brochure and Missouri DNR’s facility map give 417-624-0820 ext. 501; the city’s Solid Waste page (for the Recycling Center contact) and the Joplin Recycles site list ext. 1501. The 2014 brochure says selected products are checked and given back to the public free, at the taker’s own risk; the current web page doesn’t mention this. The facility is funded in part by Missouri DNR, the Region M Solid Waste Management District and Newton County Emergency Management.
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.
205 15th St, Monett, MO 65708
1912 Fourth St, Oswego, KS 67356
From PaintCare’s drop-off map ↗, updated October 6, 2026. Hours and limits are PaintCare’s. Distances are straight-line, not driving.
Don’t take them to 1310 West A Street; the drop-off doesn’t take latex. Mix in sawdust or cat litter until the paint is dry, leave the lids off, and put the cans inside your Republic trash cart. Keep paint out of the recycling cart.
Keep the cans sealed and labeled. Call 417-624-0820 (ext. 1501 or ext. 501) and ask whether the drop-off takes oil-based stain today, since the city’s web page and 2014 brochure disagree. If it does, bring them Tuesday through Saturday during open hours with your ID. Thinner isn’t named on the city’s accepted list, so ask about it on the same call.
Residents of McDonald, Newton, Jasper, Barton and Vernon counties can use the drop-off with proper ID. The Region M Solid Waste Management District, which helps fund it, is listed by Missouri DNR at 417-625-6626. Joplin’s Republic trash rules and the GFL bulky-item discount apply only to Joplin residents.
The drop-off doesn’t take commercial waste, and the city sends it, and any single container over 30 gallons, to a commercial hazardous waste hauler. The GFL bulky-item discount is for Joplin residents only, not commercial loads. Dry any small amounts of latex for the trash, and hire a hauler for the rest.
Dry out leftover latex paint with sawdust or cat litter, leave the can lid off, and put it inside your Republic Services trash cart; Joplin’s hazardous waste drop-off doesn’t take latex. For oil-based paint, stain or thinner, call the city at 417-624-0820 (ext. 1501 on the current city pages, ext. 501 in the 2014 brochure) before you drive to 1310 West A Street, because the city’s web page and its 2014 brochure disagree on whether paint is taken. Spray paint cans are on the accepted list.
This guide covers Joplin, Missouri. The City of Joplin runs a free household hazardous waste drop-off at its Drop-Off Recycling Center, 1310 West A Street, for residents of McDonald, Newton, Jasper, Barton and Vernon counties. It doesn’t take latex paint; the city says to dry latex and set it out with the trash. The city’s own lists disagree on whether oil-based paint is taken: the current web page lists home maintenance products "except latex paint" as accepted but also lists paint as not accepted, and the July 2014 brochure excludes all paint. Missouri has no PaintCare program, so there are no PaintCare store drop-offs.
The city’s hazardous waste page lists paint as not accepted and says to stir in sawdust or cat litter (60% litter to 40% paint), let it dry, leave the lid off and set it out with the trash. Since the new Republic Services contract took effect Oct. 1, 2026, Republic empties only what is inside your cart with the cart lid fully closed. So put the dried can in the cart, not next to it. Paint is also on the list of things that can’t go in the recycling cart.
The accepted list on the city’s web page includes "Home Maintenance Products (except latex paint)", which reads as if oil-based paint is taken. The same page lists "Paint" as not accepted, with drying directions. The city’s July 2014 brochure, which Missouri DNR’s facility map still links to, says "Home Maintenance Products (except paint)" and calls the paint exclusion a budgetary decision. The web page has no date, so you can’t tell which list is newer. Call before you load up. The brochure and DNR give 417-624-0820 ext. 501; the city’s Solid Waste page and the Joplin Recycles site list ext. 1501 for the Recycling Center.
The 1310 West A Street site takes household hazardous waste from residents of McDonald, Newton, Jasper, Barton and Vernon counties. Bring proper ID. Commercial and school waste is turned away. It’s open Tuesday and Thursday noon–6 p.m. and Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 9 a.m.–3 p.m. The city’s page names the Region M Solid Waste Management District among the site’s funders; Missouri DNR lists the district at 1801 W. 32nd St., Suite C124, Joplin (417-625-6626). The site is closed on some holidays, including the Saturday before Memorial Day and Labor Day.
The 2014 brochure says selected products dropped off here are checked for reuse value and given back to the public for free. The city says it can’t guarantee those products, and you take them at your own risk. The current web page doesn’t mention the program, so ask staff whether it still runs before you count on finding stain or primer there.
Republic Services gives each Joplin home four scheduled bulk pickups a year, up to four cubic yards each (800-431-1507). The city also pays part of the cost for Joplin residents to drop up to 2,000 pounds of bulky items, brush and limbs at the GFL Joplin Transfer Station, 3700 W. 7th St., with a sewer bill and driver’s license. Neither page mentions paint. For Republic’s transfer station in Galena, Kansas, the city says to call 620-783-5841 about what is accepted. Ask before you bring any paint to these places.
Missouri has no PaintCare program, so there are no PaintCare store drop-offs. Missouri DNR suggests giving usable paint to a friend, neighbor, charity, school, church or theater group. It says Habitat for Humanity takes gallons that are almost full and the Salvation Army takes only unopened cans. Habitat lists the Joplin Area HFH ReStore at 5201 N. Main St. (417-782-7467); the listing doesn’t say whether it takes paint, so call first. Two programs in PaintCare’s non-program listings won’t help most Joplin residents: the Barry/Lawrence counties collection in Monett is for Lawrence and Barry county households, by appointment made at least 24 hours ahead, and Labette County’s program in Oswego, Kansas, is for Labette County households only. Businesses, schools, and anyone with a container over 30 gallons must use a commercial hazardous waste hauler, per the city.
For latex, mix in sawdust or cat litter until it’s dry, and leave the lid off. For anything going to 1310 West A Street, follow the city’s packing steps: wear chemical-resistant gloves and safety glasses, keep products in their original containers, don’t mix them, label anything that isn’t in its original container (a category like "cleaning product" is fine), and close lids tightly. Put a leaking container inside a larger one with a tight lid and pack clean clay cat litter around it. Stand everything upright in a cardboard box, carry it in the trunk or pickup bed, keep flammables out of the sun and away from heat or sparks, and don’t smoke on the way. Bring your ID.
Full preparation checklist →The city’s household hazardous waste drop-off is at the Joplin Drop-Off Recycling Center, 1310 West A Street. It takes spray paint cans but not latex paint. Call 417-624-0820 (ext. 1501, or ext. 501 in the 2014 brochure) to ask about oil-based paint, because the city’s lists disagree.
Yes, once it’s dry. The city says to stir in sawdust or cat litter, let it dry, leave the lid off and set it out with the trash. Republic Services only empties what fits inside your cart with the lid closed.
It’s unclear. The city’s web page accepts home maintenance products "except latex paint" but also lists paint as not accepted. The July 2014 brochure excludes all paint as "another budgetary decision". Call 417-624-0820 (ext. 1501 or ext. 501) before you go.
Yes, if you live in McDonald, Newton, Jasper, Barton or Vernon County and bring proper ID. Barry and Lawrence county households have their own appointment-only collection in Monett, according to PaintCare’s non-program listing.
Only empty ones. Joplin Recycles lists empty aerosol cans as accepted in the curbside cart. Cans that still hold paint go to the hazardous waste drop-off, which lists aerosol paint cans as accepted.
October 17, 2026: joplinmo.org returns HTTP 403 to curl, so the city’s Household Hazardous Waste Disposal, Solid Waste Management & Recycling (Sept. 11 and Sept. 29, 2026 updates) and Bulky Item Drop-Off pages were read in the in-app browser, and the July 2014 brochure PDF was fetched inside that page and read as text. Also read: Joplin Recycles, Missouri DNR’s District M page and household hazardous waste/paint page, DNR’s facility map layer (record "Joplin Collection Facility", 1310 West A St, ext. 501), Habitat’s Joplin Area listing, and PaintCare locator records 15880 (Monett) and 15639 (Oswego, KS); Missouri and Kansas have no PaintCare program and both are non-program listings. Peer review Oct. 17, 2026: re-read all city pages in the in-app browser and the brochure text in-page; the city’s own Solid Waste page also gives ext. 1501, and DNR’s District M page does not list the district’s counties. Unresolved: whether oil-based paint is taken (undated web page vs. July 2014 brochure); ext. 501 vs. ext. 1501; whether the reuse shelf still runs; whether the ReStore, GFL or the Galena transfer station take any paint. No phone calls were made.
Checked October 17, 2026 against these sources, not by phone. How we research.
