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Source: PaintCare’s 2018 Rhode Island Annual Report for July 2017 - June 2018
PaintCare
~10% of all paint sold each year is leftover
84,210 gallons processed
That’s enough paint to apply one coat to the walls of 74,800 rooms!*
12’ 12’
10’
18%
82%100%
Latex Oil-Based
*A 12’ W X 10’ H room with 4 walls, 1 door and 1 window. Total surface area of walls is 450 sq. ft. Assumes 1 gal. of house paint covers 400 sq. ft. of surface area.
But what happens to the paint?
Large volume pick-ups (200+ gal)
22
Proper Disposal
Recycled-content paint
Used as fuel
56% of that amount was processed by PaintCare
32Year-round
drop-off sites
99.9% of RI residents live within 15 miles of a drop-off site
Program highlights, July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018
Of the paint processed, 77% was latex and 23% was oil-based.
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