Community RePaint Month
This September marks a month of activity encouraging people to recycle more, waste less and take up the challenge for sustainable living. Community RePaint schemes across the UK will be holding events to celebrate Sustainable Living Month.
The events will range from paint sales, to recycling workshops, to mural painting. You can see a full list of events here.
Community RePaint is a network of schemes that collect reusable, leftover paint and re-distribute it to individuals, families, communities and charities in need – they use this paint to recolour people’s lives and the places that they live, work and play.
The Community RePaint network is run by Resource Futures and sponsored by Dulux, which is part of AkzoNobel. Dulux has sponsored the Community RePaint network since 1993, as part of the company’s ambition to ‘ bring colour into communities by reusing waste paint ethically and sustainably’.
Akzo Nobel’s UK Sustainability Director Susan Kendall said, “Community RePaint is doing vital work motivating communities to get involved in gathering and redistributing leftover paint. We look forward to continuing our partnership with them, supporting and helping grow the network to take it from strength to strength, bringing colour to more communities across the UK.”
Martin Pearse, Community RePaint Network Manager, talks about the events happening during Sustainable Living Month: “Community RePaint schemes around the UK are always looking at ways that they can help to add colour to people’s lives. Sustainable Living Month is a great opportunity to show even more people what can be achieved with a lick of paint. There will be experts on hand at many of the schemes in September to share tips and ideas about what you can do at low cost, whether that’s for your family, community group or local sports club.”
If you are a decorator, retailer or manufacturer with surplus paint you can provide details at communityrepaint.org.uk/trade-retailers
You can also call the Community RePaint team on 0845 180 0501 for information
Community RePaint Month
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