Title: Paint Is One of the Most Common Yet Hazardous Substances in Your Home
Headings: 
Paint Related Products Are Hazardous To Your Health
Do lt Yourself Removal of Lead Based Paint: Safety Alert
What You Should Know About Lead Based Paint in Your Home
HOME SAFE HOME
Paint Products Fact Sheet
Additional Household Hazardous Waste Resources by the Home Air Purifier Expert

Content: Paint disposal may be unnecessary -- apply a second coat, touch up areas which need improvement and attempt to donate "leftover" paint to charity, theater groups and community projects. Disposal is a last resort. The average American home has one to three gallons of unwanted paint stored. When household hazardous waste collection events are held, from 40 to 70 percent of the collected waste is paint. Typically, the paint brought to household hazardous waste collections is 5 to 10 years old. Despite these statistics, funding environmentally safe disposal options for waste paint is sometimes difficult. Paint is made through combining chemical products. These chemicals include solvents, binders, additives and pigments. Paint is classified into two basic categories, latex, in which the major liquid ingredient is water, and solvent-based, which contains some sort of organic solvent. Latex or water-based paints can be identified by words on labels such as "clean with soap and water" "latex", "vinyl", "acrylic" or "water-based".