Everything you need to get rid of leftover paint responsibly in Meadville.
13291 Dickson Rd, Meadville, PA 16335
Register first through the Solid Waste Authority's link to Noble. Load items in your trunk, hatch or truck bed and stay in your car; staff unload and weigh them in front of you, then tell you the fee.
1 paint store and 3 hazardous waste sites, closest first. Paint stores take house paint, stain and varnish, usually up to a set amount per visit. Hazardous waste sites also take chemicals like thinner, but some only serve local residents. Call before you go.
13291 Dickson Rd, Meadville, PA 16335
9333 Tate Rd, Erie, PA 16509
8900 Old French Rd, Erie, PA 16509
8789 W Main St, Clymer, NY 14724
From PaintCare’s drop-off map ↗, updated October 6, 2026. Hours and limits are PaintCare’s. Distances are straight-line, not driving.
Take the lids off outside and let the paint dry, or stir in clay kitty litter. Put the dry cans out with your Meadville trash, lids off, or recycle the empty cans with your metal cans.
Store them sealed and labeled until the county posts its next fairgrounds event, then register. DEP calls oil-based paint and stain hazardous and says to take it to a collection program.
PaintCare lists the fairgrounds event for Crawford County households, so it's your option too. The Solid Waste Authority has its own recycling page for the City of Titusville, and its county medication drop-off list includes the Titusville and Conneaut Lake Regional police departments.
PaintCare lists the county event as households only, no businesses, so ask before bringing rental-unit paint. Dry small amounts of latex for the trash. For larger amounts, ask the Solid Waste Authority at 814-333-7366 who to call.
Dry out leftover paint with clay kitty litter or a paint hardener, then put it in your Meadville trash with the lid off, as the Crawford County Solid Waste Authority advises. Save paint you'd rather not dry, and thinner, for the county's next drive-thru event at the Crawford County Fairgrounds, 13291 Dickson Road. The 2026 events are over; call 814-333-7366 for the next date.
Meadville, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, has no year-round paint drop-off. The Crawford County Solid Waste Authority holds drive-thru hazardous waste events at the fairgrounds. PaintCare's listing gives two 2026 dates, June 24 and October 14, and both are over. Until the next one, the county says to dry out small amounts of paint and put them in the trash with the lid off. The Erie guide covers Erie County's separate events, which are for Erie County households.
PaintCare's listing shows the 2026 Crawford County events were held at Gate 1 of the fairgrounds on Wednesday, June 24 and Wednesday, October 14, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Solid Waste Authority's own pages don't list the 2026 dates. It says it usually holds one event in June and one in September or October, and posts the sign-up link on countyrecycling.com when a date is set.
The events are run by Noble Environmental. Its Crawford County sign-up form lists paint and stains at $1.55 a pound and other household hazardous waste at $2.05 a pound. It takes credit cards only. You stay in your car; staff unload and weigh your items in front of you.
The Solid Waste Authority says not to put liquid paint in the trash. Pour it into a sturdy box of clay-based kitty litter, or use a paint hardener from a local hardware store, and let it dry. Then put it out with the lid off so your trash crew can see it's solid.
Once a can is dry and empty, the county says it can be recycled with metal cans. Meadville's curbside recycling, run by Tri-County every other week, takes steel (tin) cans. Questions about Meadville trash and billing go to the Meadville Area Water Authority, 814-724-6057.
Noble also runs Erie County's drive-thru days, but PaintCare lists those as for Erie County households only. Crawford County residents should wait for their own county's event.
Give usable paint away. The Solid Waste Authority suggests theater groups, church groups, shelters and community organizations. Pennsylvania has no PaintCare program, so stores don't take paint back for free. PaintCare's locator shows non-program listings here, such as the county event, but no free store drop-off. DEP keeps a statewide list of household hazardous waste programs.
Keep paint you plan to bring to an event in its original labeled can, sealed, 5 gallons or smaller. Load it in the trunk or truck bed. PaintCare's listing says the event doesn't take empty, dry or leaking cans. To dry paint at home, work outside, use clay kitty litter or hardener, and leave the lid off when it goes in the trash.
Full preparation checklist →Only at Crawford County's drive-thru hazardous waste events at the fairgrounds, 13291 Dickson Road. PaintCare's listing gives the 2026 events as June 24 and October 14; both are past. Call the Solid Waste Authority at 814-333-7366 about the next one.
Not liquid paint. The county says to dry it first with kitty litter or a hardener, then put it out with the lid off.
Noble's sign-up form lists $1.55 a pound for paint and stains. It takes credit cards only.
PaintCare lists Erie County's events as for Erie County households only. Use Crawford County's event.
No. PaintCare lists the event as households only, no businesses.
Checked October 16, 2026 from the Crawford County Solid Waste Authority's home, Other Materials, City of Meadville, Trash Disposal and 2024 event pages, Noble Environmental's drive-thru page and its Crawford County sign-up form, the City of Meadville refuse page, the county departments directory, PA DEP's household hazardous waste pages and paint flyer, and PaintCare locator record 16768 (plus Erie County records 14534 and 17979) in data/paintcare/sites.json; no calls or visits. The event dates come from PaintCare's listing; the Solid Waste Authority's home page still mentions an October 14 sign-up under a 2025 heading. Its 2024 page lists waste paint at $1.45 a pound; we use Noble's current form ($1.55). Noble's drive-thru page no longer lists Crawford County and shows other counties' fall dates; we didn't confirm whether Crawford residents can use them. We didn't find a Meadville-area paint reuse store or a Tri-County rule on dried paint in city trash. The authority's mailing address is in Edinboro; we didn't list it as a drop-off.
Checked October 16, 2026 against these sources, not by phone. How we research.
