Paintback

Help your unwanted paint and packaging live on.

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George Town Council is proud to work with Paintback, the national paint collection scheme. Paintback receives unwanted paint (both water and oil based) and paint packaging with over 165 Australian collection points, including our own George Town Waste Transfer Station.

Paintback will dispose of it safely or repurpose it into other industrial uses. This significantly reduces landfill and ensures the unused paint doesn’t end up in our waterways. The packaging and waste liquid are separated with the containers being recycled, subject to contamination.

The solvent paint can then be converted into an alternative fuel source replacing coal. Water is separated from acrylic paint with the by-product used in a variety of industrial applications significantly reducing landfill and the reclaimed water is used by other industries which reduces the reliance on mains water.

Paintback is funding Australian research into how it can improve the recovery of paint and pails to reduce demand on virgin resources.

Paintback aims to have 90 per cent of unwanted paint diverted into Australia’s budding circular economy, where products are re-used or are repurposed for other manufacturing or industry processes to keep them circulating, instead of being discarded permanently.

Visit the George Town Waste Transfer Station after your next paint job and drop off your leftover or unwanted paint and packaging, it’s free to drop off.

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