@California That's great! I have never seen it in our county, but reuse is way better than the cost and effort of special incineration. That is a huge service to the community. Huge.
Yes, this re-use policy is worthwhile.
Waste Management - A nationwide trash hauling and recycle corporation - operates this under contract to the county. I think it diverts a lot of stuff that would otherwise go into sewers and then the river.
I've gotten a lot of paint there. For example Rustoleum quarts of white, black occasionally colors. Good enough for farm implements!
They used to have 5 gallon buckets of free graffitti-cover latex that they blended down to concrete color from off white junk but it disappeared. I think those go to county maintenance crews now.
Nearly everything is excess from recent jobs. I ignore anything that looks old. Another useful category is Simple Green and similar, for my pressure washer. Its amazing what people get rid of when they move.
Every community should do this. The alternative to re-use is unnecessary local pollution.
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Added: I forgot these categories. I see them there but I never get them: Bags of garden and lawn care stuff - fertilizer and fertilizer/weed killer, and rose spray etc. Legal pesticides including wasp spray and indoor bug bombs. Quantities of pool chemicals that look to be past their due date. Tile prep primers and cleaners. Spackle, putty, and window glazing putty. Car polish and headlight restorer etc. It looks like people hoard this stuff then finally drop it off.
