Do you have unwanted paint you need to dispose of?
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
More than six litres of household paint is sold each year for each and every person here. That's a lot of paint particularly as much of it is left sitting in paint containers and ends up in landfills. There are lots of ways you can reduce this burden on the environment... here's some ideas to get you started:
Reduce, reuse and recycle
Buy Environmental Choice products
Clean out brushes and rollers correctly
Community Groups - Apply for free paint
Development of Resene PaintWise
Resene PaintWise service questions and answers
View Be PaintWise brochure - You will need Acrobat Reader
Auckland/Waikato/Tauranga brochure
South Island brochure
Find out more about steel can recycling
Be PaintWise!
Bring unwanted paint and paint containers into your local Resene ColorShop and let us recycle or dispose of them responsibly. Resene will offer good quality Resene paint to community groups for reuse, recycle packaging materials that are recyclable, send solventborne paints to solvent recovery, find alternative uses for waterborne paints, such as graffiti abatement, and dispose of the rest for you.
Selected Resene ColorShops have been designated as Resene PaintWise Collection Centres. Drop off your unwanted paint and paint containers to any of these designated Resene ColorShops at any time during their opening hours.
You are welcome to bring back paint and paint packaging no matter what brand. For retail customers, Resene branded paint and paint containers are free to return. A small charge applies to non-Resene branded product and trade returns to help offset the costs of the PaintWise programme ($1 per 4L can or smaller, $2.50 per 10L pail or larger).
Resene PaintWise Collection Centres (North Island):
Albany, Cnr Tawa Drive and Rosedale Road, Ph: (09) 414 6500
Hamilton, Cnr Anglesea, Hood and Knox Streets, Ph: 839-9975
Henderson, 30 Paramount Drive, Ph: 836 2366 (view map )
Manukau, Sharkey Street, Ph: 262 1705
Mt Eden, 126 Valley Road, Ph: 623 3950
Mt Roskill, 72 Carr Road, Ph: (09) 620 5714
New Lynn, 24 Clark Street, Ph: 827 6877
Newmarket, Cnr Crowhurst and Teed Streets, Ph: (09) 529 4760
Onehunga, 260 Church Street, Ph: (09) 636 4105
Orewa, 39 Florence Street, Ph: 427 9560
Panmure, 45A Mt Wellington Highway, Ph: (09) 570 4235
Pukekohe, 54 Seddon Street, Ph: 237 1022
Takanini, Cnr 228 Great South & Glenora Roads, Ph: 296 1959
Tauranga, 47 Waihi Road, Ph: 578 4169
Te Rapa, 671 Te Rapa Road, Ph: (07) 850 5472
Wairau Park, 8 Croftfield Lane, Ph: 444 4387
Resene PaintWise Collection Centres (South Island):
Addington, 351 Selwyn Street, Ph: (03) 338 1312
Ashburton, 327 Burnett Street, Ph: (03) 307 6510
Blenheim, Cnr McArtney and Redwood Streets, Ph: (03) 577 9200
Christchurch, 256 Cashel Street, Ph: (03) 366 7441
Dunedin, 172 Crawford Street, Ph: (03) 477 6566
Ferrymead, 955 Ferry Road, Ph: (03) 376 4901
Invercargill, 123 Yarrow Street, Ph: (03) 218 2385
Nelson, 75 Haven Road, Ph: (03) 548 7110
New Brighton, Cnr Oram Avenue and Beresford Street, Ph: (03) 388 8255
Northwood, Unit E3, Northwood Supa Centre, Main Road North, Christchurch, Ph: (03) 323 4492
Oamaru, 190 Thames Street, Ph: (03) 433 1211
Shirley, 38 Marshland Road, Ph: (03) 385 5082
Timaru, 8 Elizabeth Street, Ph: (03) 688 4723
Tower Junction, Unit 8-9 Whiteleigh Ave, Ph: (03) 343 3990