Everything you need to get rid of leftover paint responsibly in Salt Lake City.
6030 W California Ave, Salt Lake City, UT 84104
Drive to the scale house first; the landfill sends household hazardous waste loads through the scales. No one will help you unload, so bring a helper for heavy buckets and move your cans onto the county’s carts yourself. The number above is the hazardous waste site’s; the landfill office uses 385-468-6370. If you’re also dumping trash, cover the load: since January 1, 2026, uncovered loads pay an extra fee equal to the disposal price. The landfill reuse shelves close in winter.
8805 S 700 W, Sandy, UT 84070
The county opened this center in July 2024 (per a county health department presentation), just south of Sandy Public Works and next to the Trans-Jordan transfer station. If you’re also taking trash to the Trans-Jordan transfer station next door, Trans-Jordan says to drop the hazardous waste here first, then go to its scale house. Don’t bring waste gathered at community collection drives. Call ahead if you want free reuse paint.
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.
6030 W California Ave, Salt Lake City, UT 84104
4646 S 500 West, Murray, UT 84123
950 South 200 West, Bountiful, UT 84010
8805 South 700 West, Sandy, UT 84070
8805 S 700 W, Sandy, UT 84070
From PaintCare’s drop-off map ↗, updated October 6, 2026. Hours and limits are PaintCare’s. Distances are straight-line, not driving.
The county marks the landfill site ‘self-service’ midweek without saying what that means for paint. Call 801-541-4078 first, wait for Friday or Saturday, or drive to the Sandy center, open Monday through Saturday.
The landfill site won’t take business waste. If your business makes under 220 pounds of hazardous waste a month, call 385-468-4380 for a quote and an appointment. Expect a fee.
Leave the lids off until the latex is solid, then put the cans out with your household trash. The county sites won’t take dried latex cans. Oil-based paint still goes to a county site.
Call the landfill site (801-541-4078) or the Sandy center (385-468-4380) and ask if paint is on the free reuse shelves. It’s for county residents only, and the landfill shelves close in winter.
Take liquid paint to the Salt Lake Valley Landfill hazardous waste site, 6030 W California Ave., on a Monday, Friday or Saturday, 7 a.m.–5 p.m. It’s free for Salt Lake County residents and takes both latex and oil-based paint. The county’s Sandy center at 8805 S 700 W is open Monday through Saturday, 7 a.m.–5 p.m. Neither site takes empty or dried latex cans.
Salt Lake City, Utah, doesn’t run its own paint drop-off. You use Salt Lake County’s free household hazardous waste sites. The closest for most of the city is the Salt Lake Valley Landfill site at 6030 W California Ave. on the west side. Monday, Friday and Saturday are its regular days. It takes latex and oil-based paint, stain and varnish free from Salt Lake County residents, but not dried-out latex cans.
The county health department lists the landfill site’s hours as Monday, Friday and Saturday, 7 a.m.–5 p.m., and marks Tuesday through Thursday ‘self-service’. It doesn’t say what that means for paint. The landfill’s own page just says the hazardous waste facility is open Monday–Saturday. If midweek is your only option, call the site at 801-541-4078 first (the landfill office is 385-468-6370), or use the Sandy center, open Monday–Saturday.
The landfill sends household hazardous waste loads to the scale house first. The county says no one will help you unload: you move your cans onto its carts. Pack them upright in boxes or bins, not plastic bags, and bring a helper for 5-gallon buckets.
A county health department presentation lists dried latex paint as not household hazardous waste, and the county sites refuse empty or dried latex cans. So a can that has dried solid goes out with your household trash, not to a drop-off site. Salt Lake City’s own pages don’t mention dried paint; call Waste & Recycling at 801-535-6999 if you’re unsure.
Salt Lake City Waste & Recycling and Veolia have held free eWaste and hazardous waste Saturday mornings (9 a.m.–noon) at the Streets Division lot, 1995 W 500 S. Those event pages list latex paint only, not oil-based, and were for residents, not businesses. They show no year, and no upcoming event was posted when we checked. Ask Salt Lake City Waste & Recycling at 801-535-6999 about future dates.
Usable products dropped off at the county sites go on reuse shelves, free to Salt Lake County residents (not businesses). Call before you drive over to ask if paint is in stock, and take only what you need. The landfill reuse centers close in winter.
Utah has no PaintCare program, so there are no PaintCare drop-off sites at paint stores. The county’s third site, Trans-Jordan Landfill (10473 S Bacchus Hwy, South Jordan, 801-971-1976), is open Monday–Saturday 8 a.m.–5 p.m. and also free for county households. Utah DEQ suggests giving extra paint to neighbors. Never pour paint into a gutter or storm drain; the county says that’s illegal.
Keep paint in its original cans with tight lids. Sort by type and set cans upright in a sturdy box or tub so they can’t tip; no plastic bags. Let nearly empty latex cans dry out completely. If you’re also hauling trash to the landfill, tarp or cover the load.
Full preparation checklist →To a Salt Lake County household hazardous waste site. The Salt Lake Valley Landfill site at 6030 W California Ave. is closest for most of the city; the Sandy center at 8805 S 700 W is staffed six days a week.
Yes, for Salt Lake County residents bringing household amounts. Small businesses pay a fee and need an appointment; call 385-468-4380.
Yes. The county sites take oil-based and latex paint, stain and varnish.
No. The county won’t take empty or dried latex cans. It doesn’t count dried latex as hazardous waste, so a fully dried can goes out with your household trash.
The county marks the landfill site ‘self-service’ Tuesday through Thursday and doesn’t explain what that means. Call 801-541-4078 first, go Monday, Friday or Saturday, or use the Sandy center (Monday–Saturday).
October 12, 2026: read Salt Lake County’s household hazardous waste pages (main, safe disposal, reuse, businesses, contacts), the Salt Lake Valley Landfill page, a county health department presentation posted on the Utah Public Notice Website (the PDF file is dated April 22, 2026; it lists dried latex as not hazardous waste, says the Sandy center opened July 2024, and reports 743,433 pounds of latex and 104,894 pounds of oil-based paint collected in 2025), Salt Lake City’s recycling page, two SLCgreen event pages, Trans-Jordan’s hazardous waste page and Utah DEQ’s pages. PaintCare’s locator lists the county sites as non-program sites. Unresolved: what ‘self-service’ Tuesday–Thursday means for paint at the landfill site (the landfill page lists the hazardous waste facility as open Monday–Saturday 7–5). The landfill office phone (385-468-6370) differs from the hazardous waste site’s (801-541-4078); both are given. The SLCgreen event pages show no year. No Salt Lake City page says in plain words that dried latex can go in the trash; that advice rests on the county listing dried latex as non-hazardous and refusing dried cans. No published per-visit gallon limit or ID check was found.
Checked October 12, 2026 against these sources, not by phone. How we research.
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