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For household paint that hasn't been used in years and you don't want
any longer, how do you " properly " dispose of such paint? If it
matters, I have trash pickup and recycling pickup.

With any luck your community will have a recycling center for such products.
Please do NOT do the dry-it-out-and-throw-it-out approach. That just puts
another very nasty element in the garbage dumps.

In Portland, all partial paint cans can be recycled, and the center combines
many compatible types into generic primers or base coats, or just for a
cheap protective cover.