Paint Care Recycling Event
The time for fall cleaning is right around the corner! Do you have any unwanted paint cans sitting in your garage or basement? Stop by Farmingdale State College on October 5th and properly recycling that paint! Paint Care is a non-profit that partners with NYS DEC to ensure that paint and paint cans are recycled in an environmentally responsible way.
FSC will be the drop off point where people - community members and FSC students/employees alike - can get their paint recycled properly. The drop off site will be in the parking lot in front of Lupton Hall (student lot 5B and 5C).
*The Office for Sustainability will be collecting paint from faculty, staff, and students from Monday 9/30/24 to Friday 10/4/24. Please drop off any cans to the Service Building or email campus Sustainability Manager Maia Roseval.
This is a free paint recycling drop-off event for households and businesses, but space is limited. Registration is required: please register using the link on the right that says RSVP NOW.
PaintCare sites accept all brands of leftover house paint, stain, and varnish, whether recently used or many years old. Containers must be five gallons or smaller, and some types of paint are not accepted. Households may bring any amount of paint, stain, and varnish. Limits apply to businesses, see below.
See below for a list of what PaintCare accepts for recycling. Make sure all paint containers have lids and original labels, and load them securely in your vehicle. Take them to our FSC drop-off site between 8am-12pm on October 5th, 2024. We’ll take it from there.
PaintCare makes sure that your leftover paint is remixed into recycled paint, used as a fuel, made into other products, or is properly disposed if no other beneficial use for it can be found.
Households may bring any amount of paint, stain, and varnish. The following limits apply to businesses:
BUSINESS LIMITS
To use PaintCare drop-off sites and events for oil-based products, a business must qualify as an exempt generator under federal and any analogous state hazardous waste generator rules. Please visit www.paintcare.org/VSQG for more information on exempt generator rules. If your business does not qualify as an exempt generator, it can use PaintCare drop-off sites and events for water-based products but not oil-based products.
Non-exempt generators in New York may use PaintCare’s pickup service; contact PaintCare
for details.
Paint manufacturers created PaintCare to provide convenient places to recycle leftover
paint, such as paint retail stores and paint drop-off events. To learn more or find
a year-round PaintCare drop-off site near you, visit www.paintcare.org or call (855)
PAINT09.
Accepted PaintCare Products: • Interior and exterior architectural paints: latex, acrylic, water-based, alkyd,
oil-based, enamel (including textured coatings) • Deck coatings, floor paints (including
elastomeric) • Primers, sealers, undercoaters • Stains • Shellacs, lacquers, varnishes,
urethanes (single component) • Waterproofing concrete/masonry/wood sealers and repellents
(not tar or bitumen-based) • Metal coatings, rust preventatives • Field and lawn
paints
*Leaking, unlabeled, and empty containers are not accepted at drop-off sites.
Not Accepted PaintCare Products: Paint thinners, mineral spirits, solvents • Aerosol paints (spray cans) • Auto and marine paints • Art and craft paints • Caulk, epoxies, glues, adhesives • Paint additives, colorants, tints, resins • Wood preservatives (containing pesticides) • Roof patch and repair • Asphalt, tar, and bitumen-based products • 2-component coatings • Deck cleaners • Traffic and road marking paints • Industrial Maintenance (IM) coatings • Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) (shop application) paints and finishes
