Recycling Paint Containers and Other Paint Types

biomechanical not only does the paint go at the landfill so if I take this gallon of paint that's say your half-full it's got a lid on it I'm gonna send this thing to the landfill well there's metal there's plastic there's paper there's paint in it and to what extent I mean I know you're recycling the paint but do we recycle anything else because there's no there's a lot of resources that went into this whole can right here so what what what all do we recycle of this well so the the steel cans when when paint is packaged in a steel one gallon can that's super super simple easy to do that any any of the steel recyclers will take that stuff we crush it we crush it we send the can off to the steel recycler after it's been emptied of its content the plastics a little bit harder to do there are a few companies in the United States who will take that plastic for recycling so we ship the wish the plastic off to a local company has two facilities in the United States we try to keep everything in the United States any extent that we possibly can we sent so we we ship the plastic off once the paint's been emptied from it and then we buy product back from that same manufacturer so this can is actually made of recycled content plastic no one can goes out gets ground up turn back into a can and we buy the can back to met to package our product in so there's another thing I was out to dinner with I didn't learn this from you but one of your employees is not only do you recycle latex paint but you guys take aerosol cans and oil-based paints and what do you do with an aerosol can well we we run it through a little machine that evacuates all the contents out of it take the paint out of it now the steel itself is just going to go to a steel recycler just like any other piece of steel wood the paint that came out of it actually has BTU value so it's gone off to other companies other hazardous waste companies primarily to be what they call fuel blended meaning that it's being used as an alternative fuel to be burnt as opposed to burning virgin product so would you paint your own house with this pain yes not only would I everything I own is painted with this paint I was a painting contractor for years in in Colorado there's there's probably 300 homes that I painted with this paint in Colorado some of which the customer requested that we use recycled content paint some of which they they just accepted that we use recycled content paint because it was a little bit less expensive…