Understanding Paint Waste Volume

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 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