Collecting and Processing Leftover Paint
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Recycled PAINT. Is It TRUE?
What happens here
Tools and materials
- Conveyor belt system
- Industrial paint mixer
- Paint filling machine
- Collected leftover paint
What they say
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What they say
(2,497 characters)there that are going into our landfills every year and you know I'm a I'm a dad also I have a wife I have kids when I started this company I didn't I didn't start a an eco-friendly company I started a company that was a necessity to feed my family but at the same time I thought you know if you can do something good for the environment while building a company why not so where do you get the paint and what happens with the paint when you get it well there's there's somewhat of an infrastructure in place across the country in just about any city or town there's some sort of household hazardous waste collection operations somewhere collecting paint many towels don't have anything but there's there's a legislative process now in place called paint care it's they're going into individual states and they're introducing what they're calling extended producer responsibility EPR legislation which means that manufacturers have to take some responsibility for their product so what that does is it puts into effect in a lot of states a collection infrastructure that used to be a situation in which they were collecting it sending it to landfills and Berrien and landfills well now they're collecting it sending it to latex paint recyclers like ourselves we're turning it back into brand-new paint keep it out of landfills and so this is one of your can so you package it just repackage it right into gallons and fives yep and is there a warranty to this pain yeah absolutely we were to all of our product for three years we kind of realized three years is not an extensive you know lifetime warranty or something like that but as a general rule of thumb our our outlook on warranty is if you have a problem with our product let us know we're gonna replace it so what's printed on the can it says three years we really ought to just go ahead and print lifetime warranty on it because we really don't we're not concerned about replacing 15 gallons of your pain if our product fails we're gonna stand behind it and but as a general rule of thumb it it doesn't fail any more than normal paint does we're not we're not doing anything crazy with this stuff we're taking paints from major manufacturers we're cleaning them up we're filtering and when we're putting them back into our into our buckets we're not creating a new product we're just simply cleaning up an existing product that a major manufacturer already built that was heading to a landfill so it doesn't fail any more often the normal…
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