PaintCare, a Washington-based paint stewardship nonprofit organization, has released its 2015 annual report for its California Paint Stewardship Program, highlighting the program’s developments since its inception in 2012.
Among the organization’s accomplishments over the past three years, PaintCare says the California Paint Stewardship Program handled more than 2.7 million gallons of postconsumer paint from July 2014 to June 2015, resulting in a total of more than 5.3 million gallons collected since October 2012. Most of the postconsumer paint was used as recycled-content paint or, in the case of oil-base paint, used for fuel, according to PaintCare. The group also recycled approximately 1,680 tons of plastic and metal paint cans.
“As the California program completed its third year, we’ve learned many important things to help us continue our success with this large-scale, statewide management program for leftover paint,” says Jeremy Jones, PaintCare’s West Coast program manager. “We have made much progress and look forward to seeing the results of our increased financial incentive for paint reuse.”
Among the organization’s accomplishments over the past three years, PaintCare says the California Paint Stewardship Program handled more than 2.7 million gallons of postconsumer paint from July 2014 to June 2015, resulting in a total of more than 5.3 million gallons collected since October 2012. Most of the postconsumer paint was used as recycled-content paint or, in the case of oil-base paint, used for fuel, according to PaintCare. The group also recycled approximately 1,680 tons of plastic and metal paint cans.“As the California program completed its third year, we’ve learned many important things to help us continue our success with this large-scale, statewide management program for leftover paint,” says Jeremy Jones, PaintCare’s West Coast program manager. “We have made much progress and look forward to seeing the results of our increased financial incentive for paint reuse.”
Additional achievements of the California Paint Stewardship Program include:
- Established 733 year-round (and 23 seasonal) drop-off locations throughout California for households and businesses to recycle leftover paint at paint retailers, government-run household hazardous waste (HHW) facilities, solid waste transfer stations and other volunteer locations.
- More than 98.4 percent of California residents have a year-round drop-off site within 15 miles of their home.
- Managed paint from 192 municipal HHW drop-off events and 16 door-to-door collection programs.
- Organized nine paint-only drop-off events.
- Provided 184 direct large volume pick-ups from businesses, institutions, and others that had accumulated more than 300 gallons of paint at their sites.
The California Paint Stewardship Law, supported by paint manufacturers and signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010, established the program to decrease the generation of postconsumer architectural paint, promote using up leftover paint, and manage the paint in an environmentally sound manner for collection, transportation, processing, recycling and proper disposal, PaintCare explains. There is no charge for dropping off paint at a PaintCare location.
PaintCare was established by the American Coatings Association (ACA), a trade association for paint manufacturers based in Washington, to implement paint stewardship programs on behalf of the paint manufacturers in states that have passed paint stewardship laws. Working with state and local government stakeholders, ACA passed the first paint stewardship law in the United States in Oregon in 2009, according to PaintCare. This legislation resulted in a pilot program for an industry-led program to manage postconsumer paint, the group explains.
In addition to California, PaintCare operates paint recycling programs in Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—with the District of Columbia planned to open in 2016.
To find the nearest PaintCare drop-off locations and to learn more about the types of products that are accepted, visit www.paintcare.org.
PaintCare was established by the American Coatings Association (ACA), a trade association for paint manufacturers based in Washington, to implement paint stewardship programs on behalf of the paint manufacturers in states that have passed paint stewardship laws. Working with state and local government stakeholders, ACA passed the first paint stewardship law in the United States in Oregon in 2009, according to PaintCare. This legislation resulted in a pilot program for an industry-led program to manage postconsumer paint, the group explains.
In addition to California, PaintCare operates paint recycling programs in Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—with the District of Columbia planned to open in 2016.
To find the nearest PaintCare drop-off locations and to learn more about the types of products that are accepted, visit www.paintcare.org.
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