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If you’re wondering how to dispose of paint, paint recycling is an excellent option. Consider donating your paint to a community center, charity, place of worship, local theater or Habitat for Humanity ReStore.
If you've emptied a can of paint, let the residue air-dry, then recycle the can with other metals. Check with your waste hauler, first, but many community recycling programs...
Local waste management or city regulations determine how rigid plastic buckets, such as 5-gallon construction or paint buckets, should be recycled. In general, buckets may be placed in the recycle bins at the curb for pickup on trash day, unless they held hazardous chemicals.
Your local municipalities and waste management agencies can advise of collection and/or drop-off locations in your area for recycling HDPE pails and metal paint cans. There are also online nationwide databases such as Earth911 and Recycle Nation — you can search with your zip code to find recycling facilities close to you.
Lastly there are the empty containers now completely dry empty water-based paint containers of 5 gallon or less can be recycled or disposed along with ordinary household trash. For oil-based paint containers or containers of any combustible or flammable liquids never put them in your trash without asking your municipal waste hauler first.
Clean 5-gallon buckets are good for blending gallons of different tints of paint so the color-batch is consistant. Used ones make great places to store old and new coiled band saw blades, especially ones for those 16", 18" and 20" models.
If you do a lot of painting at home and don’t want to store leftover paint — but you don’t want to waste it, either, consider these ways to recycle your paint: Set up a paint exchange with friends and neighbors. Donate leftover paint to charities, churches, service clubs, theater or school groups.