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Introduction to GreenSheen and Paint Waste Problem

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Recycled PAINT. Is It TRUE?

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The video introduces Kevin Callahan, the founder of GreenSheen Eco-Friendly Paint, who explains that his company recycles leftover paint. He highlights the significant environmental problem of paint waste, stating that the EPA estimates about 85 million gallons of architectural standard latex paints go unused and end up in landfills each year in the United States. He explains that his company evolved from a painting contracting business into a paint recycling and manufacturing operation.

Goal: Understand the scale of paint waste and GreenSheen's mission.

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this Kristiana whole pain are here on paint live TV and I'm at the United Hardware show in Minneapolis Minnesota another really cool show a lot of really cool products and I've been to quite a few shows in the past and I ran into one booth that I don't know if I've ever been this excited about a product before and I brought the gentleman over here the Creator to the product what it is right here green Sheen this is the booth in the product and we're gonna talk about it I'm gonna ask him some questions and to share what this is all about it is recycled paint so this is pretty exciting so why don't you just introduce yourself to the audience here tell me who you are alright so I'm Kevin Callahan I was a painting contractor for many many years and had a warehouse full of paint that I couldn't get rid of so I recycled my own leftover paint started using it in my painting contracting business and here we are today is where actually paint recyclers and paint manufacturers at this point and have kind of worked their way out of the painting houses industry and into the recycling industry yeah this is pretty amazing Kevin so you created this product and this is recycled paint and you read you recycle paints and I this is interesting because how much paint is actually being taken to dump sand and being dumped in landfills is there quite a bit yeah there's incredible volumes um every year in the United States the EPA estimates that there's about 850 million gallons of paint sold in the United States are just architectural standard latex paints and they estimate that about 10% of that goes unused and ends up ultimately going to landfill so that's about 85 million gallons a year that's going into a landfill and just

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