“Minimising VOC’s and Paint Waste is paramount – Being environmentally friendly is also economically responsible – Making sure no paint or money is going down the drain!”

Paint and chemicals entering our waterways lead to extensive damage to marine life.This has been known for some time, many painters in Perth are painting in the 21st Century with 20th-century waste management plans. The paint buy-back scheme came into effect in 2016, a simple paint levy to help fund ways to mitigate the impact of paint in our environment. We understand this is a small and somewhat insignificant step as we, the paint applicator need to be responsible for the types of paint we recommend and use; and furthermore how we choose to dispose of our waste. Pereira & Sons when feasibly possible recommends paints that are low in VOC’s (volatile organic compounds), which cause great harm to our waterways.

The best way to safely dispose of paint is prevention. We take an order-as-you-go approach when undertaking projects, which means we take a conservative estimate of how much paint we need for a given project and then using our vast experience we can (almost always) order just enough paint to be none left over. This ensures little to no paint makes it to our waste processing facilities.

In the unlikely case that we do have paint left over from a project, we do quarterly inventory checks to ensure all paint is delivered to Paint Disposal Management Facilities.