"We're apparently supposed to find a commercial service to take two small half empty tins of Dulux and a carrier bag of old socks."
When my uncle died in 2012, I was left with over 60 pots of full/part full pots of paint; he had worked as a gardener at a large house and when they had done any decorating, he couldn't bear to see unused paint disposed of. His house was a tiny council old folks bungalow. I managed to give away a few of the fullish tins of emulsion to a friend who could use them, but the rest were all mine.
If the paint were dry, then it could be disposed of via the black bin so, over the next two summers, there were rows of plastic food trays (supermarket-bought meat) each with a small amount of paint drying in the sun. We have a south facing wall and all was well until rain threatened - then we had to gather up the trays and get them under cover.
I had a couple of years breathing space before my father passed away and then, being an expert on paint disposal, I inherited another 40 or so tins. By now, I was perfecting my technique so I could help the drying process using moss that I had scarified from the lawn. If you don't have access to any moss, I suppose some old socks might do the job almost as well.
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Going carless new
Going carless new