What is the best and safest way to dispose of small quanities of smokeless powder???

1. In the country: use for fertilizer, spreading widely.
2. In town: if you have a big lawn, refer to point 1. other than that no commercial way of disposing of as "trash" would be advised, meaning you can't just throw it away safely or legally. Most places have hazardous materials drop off sites but... you might get your picture on YouTube if you show up asking for where you drop off the gun powder.
Back a few decades, you call the neighbor kid, teach him how to reload and shoot; the powder disappears rapidly.

It is wonderful plant and lawn fertilizer.

when you say small quanities.? how small 1 pound, or 400 grains. I have put small amounts in a line and burned it. or just throw it over the fence in the bush pile..

Thanks guys! I need to apply fall fertilizer, so I will just mix in with it.
Thanks again.

I use a match but fertilizer would probably be better.

I simply toss any unwanted propellant in my burn barrel or into my coal stove...

Everyone says fertilizer, but I like to burn it. I have an old sheet metal pan I use after I clean up spills. I did it on my drive way once took a while to get the burn off.

Fertiliser is safest, unless you want to be a pyrotechnic bug like some here

I toss it out the back door of my shop...

I load it and shoot it; never had any go bad and I have some pretty old stuff. I know, it will kill me; heard all that before.... I have about 50 pounds left from WW2 and it still works. I have black powder from the 1920s, but that don't count; it never goes bad.

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Originally posted by dpcd:
I load it and shoot it; never had any go bad and I have some pretty old stuff. I know, it will kill me; heard all that before.... I have about 50 pounds left from WW2 and it still works. I have black powder from the 1920s, but that don't count; it never goes bad.

man after my own heart.... I never have it long enough to go bad.

"Toss it into the coal stove"

A fellow showed up at work one day sans eyebrows. When asked, he said he had tossed some unwanted powder into his woodstove. It should not have happened, but poof, no eye brows.

Guess who answered to the nick name 'Poof' from then on.

What every you do.

Don't dump the powder in a 5 gal plastic pail and leave it in the yard.

Don't order a new iron fence and have it installed in the yard.

Don't weld up the iron fence and let a ball of molten iron fly off the stick welder and fly into the pail.