Old Paint Word of Advice (shop, donate, top)

[Bob864]

We, like others I know tend to hold on to our old paint too long thinking we'll need it for touch ups. My wife finally made me clean out the paint shelf in my shop and I came up with aout 8 gallons of partially filled cans, plus half a dozen quart cans, on actually new.
Today I traveled down to the Hipps Rd landfill because I knew they had a paint dropoff. They refused to let me leave the paint there because 1. they don't take dropoffs from anything but full cans and 2. they don't take anything smaller than a gallon.
So, don't make my mistake and hold on to those old paint cans. The only option is to leave them open and once the paint dries fill them with sand, then you can dump them. Otherwise, you have to either sneak them into the garbage, top off the cans with water and leave them in the paint area, combine all the small cans into gallon cans, or let a bunch of paint cans sit around until they dry completely.

[honeysuckle_rose]

I've been told by the landfill people that you can stir in kitty litter until the paint is absorbed and dried. Then it can be thrown into regular garbage.

[Eldemila]

Could you not donate the paint to Habitat, or somewhere that could use it for some type of repurposing project?


Your paint may be good, and useable by someone else depending on some factors:


https://www.bobvila.com/articles/how...es-paint-last/