Everything you need to get rid of leftover paint responsibly in Sioux Falls.
1015 E Chambers St, Sioux Falls, SD 57104
Load paint in the trunk or truck bed, as far from passengers as you can. Follow the signs around the Environmental Center and pull under the metal awning. Stay in your car while staff record your address and unload. Don’t smoke on site, even in your car. Leaving items outside after hours counts as littering under city code, with fines up to $200 plus court costs. The Reuse Room inside gives away chemicals staff have checked and approved; you can take up to 3 items a week for free.
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.
1015 E Chambers St, Sioux Falls, SD 57104
1236 N River Rd, Luverne, MN 56156
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From PaintCare’s drop-off map ↗, updated October 6, 2026. Hours and limits are PaintCare’s. Distances are straight-line, not driving.
Either drive them to Chambers Street for free, or let the latex harden with the lid off and put the cans in your garbage. Both are allowed for latex.
Bring it all to the hazardous waste site in the trunk or truck bed. Keep each product in its own container, 5 gallons or smaller. Call 605-367-8695 first if you have a large load.
The site turns away paint collected by property managers from rental units. Each tenant can bring their own. For leftovers your rental business collects, look at the city’s business program; it is only for very small businesses (VSQGs) in the five counties.
Apply to the city’s business hazardous waste program for very small businesses in the five counties. If you’re approved, Veolia quotes a price, picks up from your site and bills you. There’s no drop-off option, and funding is first come, first served.
The site is closed Sundays and Mondays. Plan for Saturday morning, 8 to noon, or dry out the latex at home and trash it.
Take paint to the Sioux Falls Household Hazardous Waste Facility, 1015 E. Chambers St., Tuesday–Friday 8–5 or Saturday 8–noon. It’s free with ID for households in Minnehaha, Lincoln, Lake, McCook and Turner counties, and takes latex and oil-based paint. Hardened latex can also go in your trash.
In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, leftover paint goes to the city’s Household Hazardous Waste Facility at 1015 E. Chambers St., below the North Cliff Avenue hill. It’s free for households in Minnehaha County and four neighboring counties, and it takes both latex and oil-based paint. South Dakota has no PaintCare program, so paint stores won’t take paint back.
Drive in Tuesday–Friday 8–5 or Saturday 8–noon. The site is closed Sunday and Monday. The city says it is busiest from about 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and on Tuesdays and Saturdays, so go early or late in the day. If you have a large load, call 605-367-8695 first for an appointment.
It’s free for homes in Minnehaha, Lincoln, Lake, McCook and Turner counties. Staff check your driver’s license or other ID and write down where you live before they unload.
Tenants can bring their own paint any time. Property managers can’t bring paint gathered from rental units, and a business run from a home office can’t use the site either.
The city says cans of hardened latex paint can go in your regular garbage with the lid off. Sioux Falls uses private haulers, so ask yours if you’re unsure what it will pick up.
Inside the facility, the Reuse Room gives away household and car-care products that staff have checked. You can take up to 3 items a week.
There is no free store take-back in South Dakota. For latex you don’t want to haul, let it harden in the can with the lid off, then put it in your garbage; the city says dried latex and empty latex cans can go in the trash. An older state consumer guide (Homewise, still posted by DANR) gives the same advice for latex and says to give leftover paint to others. It has no separate trash advice for oil-based paint, but says paint thinner and paint stripper should not go in the trash. Small businesses in the five counties can use the city’s business hazardous waste program instead: you apply, then Veolia picks up the waste and bills you for disposal.
Keep paint in its original can with the lid on tight; nothing over 5 gallons. Load it in the trunk or truck bed, not on the seats. Bring your driver’s license. Stay in your car under the awning, and don’t smoke on site.
Full preparation checklist →Yes, for households in Minnehaha, Lincoln, Lake, McCook and Turner counties. Bring ID that shows your address.
Yes, if your home is in Lincoln, Lake, McCook or Turner county. Homes in other counties can’t use it.
Yes, once it’s hard. The city says hardened latex can go in your regular trash with the lid off. Never put liquid paint in the cart.
It’s closed every Sunday and Monday, and on New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. It keeps regular hours on Juneteenth, Native American Day, Veterans Day and Christmas Eve unless they fall on a Sunday or Monday.
Not to the household site. Sioux Falls has a business program for very small businesses in the five counties. Call 605-367-8600 or fill out its verification form.
October 13, 2026: read the City of Sioux Falls Household Hazardous Waste Facility page, its 2026 accepted-materials list (PDF), its rejected-materials notice (PDF), the landfill and hazardous waste holiday schedule, the business (VSQG) program page and the hauler page; SD DANR’s Waste Management pages, its storm debris guidance (June 2026) and its older Homewise consumer guide; and PaintCare’s non-program listing for the site. The holiday page names holidays but not 2026 dates. The facility page and 2026 list give the ZIP as 57104. The city page doesn’t list Reuse Room hours or say whether paint is stocked. We could not find a primary Habitat ReStore paint policy for Sioux Falls, so it is left out. No mobile collection events were listed. Peer review, October 13, 2026: reopened every source. The facility page gives the busiest times but no “quiet” hours, so we now give only the busiest times. Homewise is an old booklet from the former DENR; DANR still links it on its Watershed Protection publications page.
Checked October 13, 2026 against these sources, not by phone. How we research.
