May 28, 2019
South Burnett residents who have old paint cans lurking in sheds and garages can recycle them for free on Saturday, June 22.
Kingaroy paint shop, Crowies Paints, has organised a visit from the Paintback recycling program in the car park at Kingaroy Showgrounds between 7:00am and 4:00pm.
Local DIY enthusiasts and tradies will be able to dispose of up to 100 litres of paint at no charge, saving them the $8-a-litre fee the South Burnett Regional Council charges to dispose of paint at Kingaroy’s landfill.
The unwanted paint products will be recycled in a variety of ways.
Paintback is a not-for-profit organisation which started in 2016 and is funded by a 15c per litre fee now added to selected paints of between one and 20 litres.
Its founding members were Dulux, Haymes, PPG, Resene and The Sherwin-Williams Company.
In addition to disposing of waste paint products responsibly, Paintback is also committed to researching new ways to repurpose unwanted paint materials.
Paintback has already established 116 permanent collection sites around Australia, which ensures almost 18 million Australians are no further than 20km from a paint recycling outlet.
Rural regions like the South Burnett are serviced by “pop up” collection points.
Kingaroy’s collection point will accept interior and exterior household paints, deck coatings and floor paints, primers, sealers, stains, shellacs, varnishes, wood coatings and undercoats of up to 20 litres.
A list of the paint products that will be accepted can be found on the Paintback website
