Partners for Waste Paint Solutions Has
a New Partner in Rock Island
For Immediate Release
November 25, 2003 |
Contact: Maggie Carson
217-557-8138
TDD: 217-782-9143 |
Springfield, Ill. -- Keim's Paint Center in Rock Island is the Illinois Environmental Protection
Agency's newest Partner for Waste Paint Solutions, Illinois EPA Director Renee
Cipriano announced today.
Jerry Keim, owner of Keim's Paint Center in Rock
Island, has signed an agreement with the Agency to accept unwanted or unused
oil based and latex paint products
from local area residents, for a small fee, at his store located at 4661
44th Street in Rock Island. Reusable paint will be reformulated by the Keim's
Paint
Center for resale or donation. The Illinois EPA will dispose of any waste
paint in an environmentally sound manner.
Over the years, an estimated 24 percent
of the waste collected during the Illinois EPA's one-day Household Hazardous
Waste Collections is paint. The
Agency then
had to pay a contractor to recycle or properly dispose of it.
"In order
to more efficiently address this large volume of paint, and be able to use
available funding to collect more hazardous materials, the
Agency initiated
the Partners for Waste Paint Solutions program," said Cipriano. "Working
with our Partners and the citizens we have reduced the paint at the collections
to about 10 percent of the total."
The program offers consumers the added
convenience of being able to deliver unwanted paint to local participating
Paint Partners, where the paint can
be reformulated
or remixed for reuse. The complete list of Paint Partners is on the web
at http://www.epa.state.il.us/land/citizen-involvement/paint.html.
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