Old Paint Cans – A Hidden Fire Hazard In Your Home or Business

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Old Paint & Fire 🔥

Although not the reason why the California wildfires started, did you know that leftover and unused cans of household paint– including water-based, latex, enamel, and acrylic– pose a fire threat to your building?

chuck the yuck old paint Most homes have a dozen or so old paint cans, which is not a grave offense. However, because our average pick-up per building is 1-3 tons of unused paint cans, we’re in the realm of fire code violations and insurance non-compliance issues.

Does Paint Burn?

YES. Latex paint is liquid rubber, and rubber is a 🔥 flammable fuel source where it comes into contact “with an incendiary event.”

When high heat ignitions come into contact with a leftover half-used paint can and its paper label (which burns), label glue (which burns), plastic and metal containers (which melt), the water component of paint (which evaporates), you’re left with a fuel source that firefighters cannot extinguish.

They can only contain and observe until it flames out, releasing toxic hydrogen cyanide and hydrochloric acid gases.

Get Compliant!

Call Yuck Old Paint to safely remove and environmentally process your stockpiles of leftover and unwanted cans of paint.
✅ Get fire code compliant!
✅ Get insurance code-compliant!
✅ Get sustainability/ESG/ Net Zero Waste compliant!
And wouldn’t it be nice to regain all that space the pallets of paint cans have taken up?

Call now!
888-509-YUCK

Yuck Old Paint founder and CYO

About Us

Yuck Old Paint® was founded by Chief Yuck Officer, Raea Jean Leinster, in response to an unmet market need to remove old paint cans from the multitude of clients she has worked with for over a decade as a faux finisher and decorative painter.

 

 

Yuck Old Paint is:

Call For Old Paint Can Disposal Service

888-509-YUCK (9825)

We are your convenient ESG solution to eliminate the old, leftover, used, unused, and unwanted paint cans in your home, commercial building, military base, HOA, or municipality. We pick up paint and more! Use our online form to schedule service.

How do you properly dispose of unused latex paint?

80+ cans of old paint cans<

Whether you are a homeowner or a building facilities manager, you have limited options to get rid of your old paint cans:

  • Paint and hardware stores are prohibited from accepting old paint cans
  • Junk haul removal companies are prohibited from accepting old paint cans
  • Waste management companies are prohibited from accepting old paint cans
  • Habitat for Humanity has stopped accepting old paint can donations
  • Household Hazardous Waste facilities do not have convenient locations nor hours
  • HOA bylaws prohibit you from disposing of old paint cans in any common trash receptacle