Paint Waste Prevention Project

Waterford City & County Council is leading on a collaborative project with Carlow and Kilkenny County Councils on preventing paint waste.  This project was initiated as a result of identifying the significant quantities of non–hazardous paints that were being collected on hazardous waste collection days at council civic amenity sites. This results in a significant cost for disposal.

Thus, a joint paint waste prevention project is being developed in the three counties to raise awareness of how to calculate paint required, how to store paint, and how to dispose of it.

The project is including an awareness raising campaign, working with independent retailers, and an assessment of waste paint brought to civic amenity sites. See the video,  top 10 tips and an article on the initiative here. These tips are being shared online through social media posts and videos, on radio and at point of sale in hardware and paint shops.