Environmental Commitment

Paint Genius was created to champion the reuse and recycling of paint and to provide expert painting services to save you money and time on your painting projects. We have an affinity for paint, a love for people, and cherish our beautiful planet.

By offering you options for recycling your unused paint, and by putting those materials to good use in making new paint, we’re able to keep hazardous waste out of landfills, save water, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and cut down on other harmful chemicals used in paint processing.

Here are just a few reasons why buying recycled paint helps keep Colorado beautiful:

Waste reduction:

Paint Genius has diverted more than 10,000 gallons of paint from landfills in Colorado, and we’re set to divert 20,000 more gallons by 2014 with your help.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions:

Producing recycled paint reduces dangerous greenhouse gas emissions by 75% compared to the equivalent production of virgin paint.

Resource Conservation:

Recycling paint is far less resource intensive than manufacturing new paint. Here’s a quick example: re-using ten gallons of latex paint saves 1,060 killowatt hours of electricity, enough energy to power the average Colorado home for a month! We also recycle our waste paint cans, and use buckets made from reused or repurposed materials whenever possible.

Water conservation:

As Coloradans, we’re no strangers to needing to save water. As it happens, water is the single largest component of making new paint – comprising 70-75% of the product in raw materials alone. When you add in manufacturing, transportation, and packaging, it takes 13 gallons of water to make just one gallon of new paint. Recycled paint is significantly less resource intensive and can save hundreds of thousands of gallons of water annually!

Reducing Toxins:

You know that fresh paint smell? Most latex paints contain organic solvents, which hold the paint together and allow it to bind with other elements when you’re painting. These solvents emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are harmful to your health and to the environment. Since recycled paint involves minimal processing, no new VOCs are produced during its formulation. And, since the paint we use has already been exposed to the air when we use it, lab tests have shown that our paint contains a modest level of VOCs in comparison to conventional paint.

Using Local, Recycled Materials:

We use 100% post-consumer paint collected from Colorado residents, businesses and municipal hazardous waste programs to produce our recycled paint. This keeps waste out of landfills and provides a locally-produced, high quality recycled product for you. Because paint maintains its integrity every time its recycled, any surplus recycled paint can be collected and recycled again, creating a closed-loop paint recycling system. Woohoo!

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