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Herein, how do I dispose of old cans of paint?
Bring Old Paint Cans to Your Local HHWProgram If there's not enough paint to donate and you'vegot a Household Hazardous Waste center near you, go ahead andarrange a paint drop off. Leftover oil-based paintwill be incinerated along with most hazardous waste and anyleftover water-based paint will berecycled.
Then, how do I dispose of paint at Home Depot?
For the oil based paint, it is not something youcan dispose of in your household garbage, but must be takento a hazardous waste disposal facility. While empty latexpaint cans can be disposed of in the garbage withoutcleaning them out, partial cans need to have the paint driedor hardened before disposal.
Your local Habitat for Humanity ReStore may offerlatex paint recycling. The paint is collected by thecrew, mixed and resold at the ReStore, which sells new and usedbuilding supplies to benefit the organization.