Table Summary table of all available solutions for end of life waste paint Solution Decision Application Obstacles Opportunities Comment labour cost (in case of using labour) Exchange NR* paint OH&S of volunteers (in case of volunteers) OH&S with storage and handling diversity in color and type reduce transportation cost sorting expenses reduced carbon footprint filtering expenses saving in resources and energy potential bacterial infection consolidation NR paint increase the community awareness warranty issues on importance of recycling These options need low volume of high quality waste paint heavy involvement from market demand government to educate essential local government involvement community, provide requires investment on infrastructure infrastructure and to and community education put in place initiatives labour cost to increase market sorting expenses demand (e.g. graffiti Paint filtering expenses abatement contractors Reuse ongoing laboratory testing and costs graffiti abatement applications being asked to use a diversity in color and type warehouse painting certain amount of need to meet technical requirement saving in resources and energy NR paint waste paint, giving remanufacturing (ongoing quality control) reduced carbon footprint credit toward green star difficulty in producing repeatable and Local government initiatives can building for using waste uniform product potentially make it more attractive paint in some potential bacterial infection applications such as no stable market fence painting) warranty issues labour cost sorting expenses filtering expenses producing high quality same as new paint same performance as new paint Paint re-blending NR ongoing laboratory testing and costs saving in resources and energy potential bacterial infection shifting toward green building no stable market warranty issues
Table Summary table of all available solutions for end of life waste paint Solution Decision Application Obstacles Opportunities Comment Paint Reuse Exchange NR* paint labour cost (in case of using labour) OH&S of volunteers (in case of volunteers) OH&S with storage and handling diversity in color and type sorting expenses filtering expenses potential bacterial infection warranty issues low volume of high quality waste paint market demand essential local government involvement requires investment on infrastructure and community education reduce transportation cost reduced carbon footprint saving in resources and energy increase the community awareness on importance of recycling These options need heavy involvement from government to educate community, provide infrastructure and to put in place initiatives to increase market demand (e.g. graffiti abatement contractors being asked to use a certain amount of waste paint, giving credit toward green star building for using waste paint in some applications such as fence painting) consolidation NR paint remanufacturing NR paint labour cost sorting expenses filtering expenses ongoing laboratory testing and costs diversity in color and type need to meet technical requirement (ongoing quality control) difficulty in producing repeatable and uniform product potential bacterial infection no stable market warranty issues graffiti abatement applications warehouse painting saving in resources and energy reduced carbon footprint Local government initiatives can potentially make it more attractive Paint re-blending NR labour cost sorting expenses filtering expenses same as new paint ongoing laboratory testing and costs potential bacterial infection no stable market warranty issues producing high quality same performance as new paint saving in resources and energy shifting toward green building
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