Environmental Impact of Paint in Landfills

that's going into a landfill and just absolutely incredible and and so then here again so I mean is paint bad is it bad to go into the landfill I mean I it's just it's a water-based product there's I mean is it bad to dump it into the ground is it well as a general rule of thumb paint with low view or lower VOCs now and all that kind stuff that you know all these regulations have put in place over the last few years it's not nearly as bad as it was in the past but it's anytime you're put in 85 million gallons of anything into a landfill it's gonna be a problem especially when it's a liquid you know pain is primarily it so it's a water-based paints primarily water but it has a lot of other other chemicals and whatnot into it and even in liquid waste landfills where it's disposed of correctly it number one if you're disposing about correctly it's still 85 million gallons which is just an unbelievable volume but you know there's a bunch of alcohols and surfactants drying agents you name it in latex paint even though it's primarily water-based there's still a lot of chemicals in there that are going into our landfills