I try to buy oil in gallon bottles, so that I can use them easily as waste jugs.
For quarts, Ill drain them as much as possible then stick them into the recycling. What they decide is their deal - if they gave guidance that they HAD to be put into the trash, Id do so.
No car of ours takes an evan amount of oil, so our quarts are either partials and saved, or used to take up the excess that won't fit in the gallon jug. I just did that the other day with a M1 bottle. Back to the oil collector it goes!