Partners

American Coatings Association
The American Coatings Association (ACA) is a non-profit industry trade association advancing the needs of the paint and coatings industry through advocacy and programs that support environmental protection, product stewardship, health, safety, and the advancement of science and technology.

Product Care
Product Care is a non-profit industry association managing product stewardship programs for household hazardous and special waste on behalf of its members across Canada. Product Care's programs help protect the environment by diverting leftover and end of life products from landfills, waterways, and sewers. Product Care provides consumers with a collection system network for the products it manages. The collected products are then reused or recycled where possible.

Product Stewardship Institute
The Product Stewardship Institute, Inc. (PSI) is a national non-profit environmental institute that establishes cooperative agreements to reduce the health and environmental impacts from consumer products. PSI has membership from 45 states, over 170 local governments, and more than 55 businesses, organizations, universities, and non-US governments. PSI works on over a dozen product categories, including paint.

Earth911
Earth911 gathers, distributes and analyzes localized recycling information to assist manufactures, organizations and consumers with product end-of-use solutions. Working to increase the recycling and disposal of consumer goods since 1991, Earth911's services enhance and support companies' responsible waste initiatives. Through its innovative Recycling Directory, Earth911.com hosts information for hundreds of products in over 120,000 listings across the country.

 

Oregon Program Partners

Amazon Environmental
Amazon Environmental, Inc. is the nation’s largest privately held latex paint recycler. Amazon uses leftover latex paint to manufacture recycled content paint that is comparable in quality to virgin paint sold by national manufacturers. Amazon Select® recycled content paint is available in 12 pre-mixed colors, is environmentally preferable to virgin paints, and carries both Green Seal and Master Painters Institute certification. Leftover paint that can’t be used is manufactured into an alternative raw material used in the production of cement or into other products. Using these processes, Amazon is able to beneficially reuse virtually 100% of the leftover paint received.

MetroPaint
Metro, an elected regional government, helps make the Portland, Ore., metropolitan area an extraordinary place to live, work and play. Since 1992, Metro has recycled more than 1 million gallons of latex paint, helping the environment and keeping reusable resources out of the landfill. Each year, the agency collects more than 5 million pounds of household hazardous waste, with about 61 percent of it latex and oil-based paint. Metro transforms quality leftover latex into 100 percent recycled MetroPaint, an award-winning, Green Seal™ certified product good toward Earth Advantage® and LEED® credits. For every gallon of MetroPaint used instead of new paint, about 100 kilowatt hours of energy is saved and an estimated 115 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions are prevented.

PSC Environmental Services
PSC is a fully integrated environmental services company. As a provider of choice for more than 200 of the Fortune 500 companies, we self-perform over 110,000 service stops annually across the U.S. With our network of 48 locations and fleet of transportation equipment, PSC can meet the hazardous and non-hazardous waste treatment and disposal needs of any client in the U.S. including Alaska and Hawaii.

 

State Agency Partners

Oregon DEQ
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is a regulatory agency whose job is to protect the quality of Oregon’s environment. Its mission is to be a leader in restoring, maintaining and enhancing the quality of Oregon’s air, land and water. DEQ supports product stewardship as a key environmental strategy in minimizing a product's environmental impact throughout all stages of the product's life.

CalRecycle
The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) is the state's leading authority on recycling, waste reduction, and product reuse. CalRecycle plays an important role in the stewardship of California's vast resources and promotes innovation in technology to encourage economic and environmental sustainability.

Connecticut DEEP
The mission of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is to conserve, improve and protect the natural resources and environment of the State of Connecticut in such a manner as to encourage the social and economic development of Connecticut while preserving the natural environment and the life forms it supports in a delicate, interrelated and complex balance, to the end that the state may fulfill its responsibility as trustee of the environment for present and future generations.