Disposing of old GW paint in an environmentally safe way

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**Samsonov**

I have some old GW pots with dried paint in them. Is there any environmental concerns over disposing GW paint or should I just dispose them as plastics?

**Apologist**

Acyrlic paints, including Citadel colour, can happily be disposed of in your household waste.

http://earth911.com/recycling-guide/how-to-recycle-paint/

Failing that, you can always build 'em into some terrain

**Samsonov**

Thanks.

Time to recycle some old classics, hormagaunt purple, cathlan brown, dheneb stone, other paints of that era. Some truly great colours.

**techsoldaten**

Of course, you could also restore them.

Liquitex Matte Medium does wonders for old, dried paint pots.

Pour some in the pot and shake it aggressively. I tie pots down to a jigsaw for mixing and run it for about 20 seconds to get it back to proper hue and consistency.

**Lance845**

Acrylic paint (water based) is basically liquid plastic suspending in a liquid base. Once it drys it's just the plastic left behind. Dry it out and throw it away. No special treatment needed.

**Elbows**

Those are not "old" colours

**techsoldaten**

Elbows wrote:
Those are not "old" colours

Heh. Old, in the sense of a discontinued line. Restoring them is an act of corporate necromancy!