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Discussions in the British Parliament on how to create a circular economy for waste decoration
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focused on the British Coatings Alliance (BCF) Paintcare project, an industry initiative aimed at addressing how waste coatings are handled. Lawmakers are concerned about how to stimulate the market for recycled coatings, including government orders and regulations on recycled coatings, and the addition of recycling centers for household waste coatings.
Paintcare project was launched by the BCF to make better use of the 55 million litres of waste paint that would have been landfilled or burned each year. Since 2014, the project has been working with industry and the government to create solutions for waste decorative coatings in the UK, proposing a solution that could be implemented across the UK and save 40 per cent on treatment costs. One of the challenges of the program is to create a end market that absorbs 20 million litres of waste paint per year for reuse. To help stimulate the recycled paint market, Paintcare called on the government to require 5% of government contracts to use recycled coatings.
challenge is that only one-third of waste paint recycling centers currently receive coatings and have a variety of problems, including cost and space impacts. In response, Paintcare called on the government to give more support to expanding the recycling network.
On the debate, Tom Bowtell, chief executive of the British Coatings Alliance, said: "I am pleased to see widespread support for the MPs' push for a solution to the waste paint problem, but disappointed that Minister Theersse Coffey rejected the project and that the minister's assumption that waste paint should be producer-owned has been proven by other countries to be unworkable and that consumers cannot use the paint they have purchased completely." What we need is a paint recycling and create a end market for recycled coatings, which is also the challenge we face. "
