Elko, NV Paint Disposal

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Elko, Nevada (Elko County) has one place for oil-based paint and other household chemicals: the household hazardous waste drop-off at the City of Elko Landfill, 2200 Pinion Road. It works by appointment only, so call 775-777-7396 first. The landfill does not take liquid latex paint; the city tells you to harden it with kitty litter or floor dry and put it in your household trash. Nevada has no PaintCare program, so paint stores don’t take paint back.

Nevada has no PaintCare program, so there’s no store take-back. Elko County’s 2016 solid waste plan says the City of Elko landfill takes household hazardous waste for the area, and that the Jackpot transfer station, Elko Sanitation’s waste bin sites and the county’s bin sites don’t. The plan says Lee, Ruby Valley and Deeth residents haul their own trash to the Elko landfill, and that Elko Sanitation collects trash in Spring Creek, Carlin, Wells, Lamoille, Jiggs and other county communities. County code from 2000, quoted in the plan, tells residents to take all household hazardous waste to the Elko landfill, and the plan says West Wendover’s city landfill also takes it. The 2016 plan also said the landfill dried collected paint on carpeting or cardboard and buried it with regular trash. Those details are from 2016, so confirm when you book. A 2019–2020 state “Special Waste Guide” for Elko pointed to the Carson City Landfill’s Thursday appointments instead; Elko’s own landfill now runs a drop-off, so start there.

PaintCare large-volume pickup (100+ gallons) ↗

October 17, 2026: read the City of Elko Municipal Landfill page, its Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off sheet (PDF), the Elko Recycles flyer, an older household hazardous waste flyer (2015 file), the July 2023 landfill fee sheet, the Utilities page, the city’s stormwater painting handout, Elko Sanitation’s recycling guide, Nevada DEP’s Where Can I Recycle page and its 2019–2020 Elko guide, and Elko County’s 2016 Solid Waste Management Plan. PaintCare’s locator data has no Elko County listing. Conflicts: three different second phone numbers for booking (7210, 7213, and the main 7396), and the Utilities page lists the landfill superintendent at 7395 rather than 7396; the older flyer lists out-of-date medicines as accepted, while the newer recycling flyer sends medications to the police and sheriff. The 2019 state guide pointed Elko residents to Carson City. Unresolved: whether there is a fee or gallon limit, whether non-city residents need proof of address, whether the drop-off takes empty or dried paint cans, and whether Elko Sanitation has its own rule on dried latex in carts (its guide only bans hazardous waste from recycling). The 2016 county plan is the newest county-wide source found, and facts from it are labeled with its year.

Checked October 17, 2026 against these sources, not by phone. How we research.