LOCAL residents can now drop off their unwanted paint at the Drysdale Resource Recovery Centre for recycling through the Paintback program.
\nPaintback is a world-first program that saves paint from going to landfill, instead collecting and reusing the paint in the manufacturing sector.
\nA total of 13.5 million kilograms of unwanted paint has been collected and treated from the 140 Paintback sites located across Australia since the program launched in 2016.
\nInclusion of the Drysdale site as a Paintback drop-off site provides DIY painters and trade painters across the Bellarine with a convenient location to responsibly dispose of their waste paint and tins free of charge.
\nThe Geelong Resource Recovery Centre has been a Paintback drop-off site since the program was launched.
\nTo fund the collection and treatment of the waste paint and packaging, buyers pay a 16.5 cents\/ litre levy on eligible paint sold in containers over one litre and up to 20 litres.
\nPaints eligible for recycling through Paintback include water and oil-based paints (interior and exterior), deck coatings, floor paints, primers and undercoats, shellacs and stains, undercoats, sealers (including urethane), varnishes, wood coatings (containing no pesticides) and empty paint tins.
\nSome paint products such as aerosol paints, automotive paints and paint thinners cannot be recycled through Paintback.
\nVisit paintback.com.au\/households\/eligible-products-households for a full list of painting products that are not accepted.
\nResidents can drop off up to 30 litres per vehicle per visit at both Drysdale and Geelong.
\nFor ease of handling, paint must be secured in containers of 20 litres or less.
\nPaint tins containing dried paint are also accepted.
\nOnce collected, the waste paint is transported to specialist facilities for treatment.
\nWater is extrapolated from water-based paints and reused as a coolant in manufacturing. Because oil-based paints have a high calorific value, they are blended to create an alternative fuel to replace coal in the manufacture of cement.
\nMetal and plastic packaging is recycled into new packaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LOCAL residents can now drop off their unwanted paint at the Drysdale Resource Recovery Centre for recycling through the Paintback program. Paintback is a world-first program that saves paint from going to landfill, instead collecting and reusing the paint in the manufacturing sector. A total of 13.5 million kilograms of unwanted paint has been collected […]<\/p>\n