Canada’s Paint and Coatings Industry is Establishing Its Own Recycling Program
OTTAWA, Ontario - The paint and coatings industry has formally notified Canada’s Waste Diversion Ontario (WDO) that it wants to establish its own program operation for post-consumer paint recycling in Ontario. The program will be separate from the current Municipal Household Hazardous Waste (MHSW) Program now run by Stewardship Ontario. The move will allow the industry to continue with successful post-consumer paint recycling in Ontario, as it has done for the past four years.
Paint and coatings is the largest category of waste in the MHSW program. It represents more than 40 percent of the dollar value of the entire program. “This effort signals the paint industry’s desire to continue the success it has achieved in Ontario over the past four years, where it regularly exceeded established recycling targets,” commented Dale Constantinoff, President of General Paint Corp. and CPCA Chair.