Recycling Paint in Your Community. Who Are We? Castle Repaint is part of Castle Furniture Project...

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Recycling Paint in Your Community

Who Are We?

• Castle Repaint is part of Castle Furniture Project• Registered Charity in Scotland• Company Limited by Guarantee • Fife Based• Operates across East and Central Scotland

What Do We Do?

• Reprocess leftover and unwanted water based paint into brand new ‘Repaint’ product

• Produce Repaint in a range of modern colours• Employ long term unemployed young people and volunteers

What Do We Do?Paint CollectionsLocal Authority Areas: Edinburgh, Fife and East Lothian

And: Waste Management Companies, Skip Hire Companies, Paint Retailers, Painters & Decorators, Community RePaint Projects, etc

What Do We Do?• Collecting Unwanted Paint

• Weekly collection of all water based and solvent based paint from civic amenity sites

• Quality paint separated from value

• All waste paint reused wherever possible

• Repaint processed using 90% top quality paint

What Do We Do?• Selling ‘Repaint’ • Repaint sold through Castle

Furniture premises in Glenrothes, Cupar and Perth as well as through charity shops.

• Sold through a wide range of social enterprises and charities

• Supplying to public sector organisations and their contractors

Added Value• Environmental benefits – Reduced landfill and increased recycling/reuse• Social Benefits – Castle is a social enterprise providing volunteering,

support and training for individuals excluded from the labour market with particular focus upon mental health

• Financial Benefits – Repaint sold at affordable prices• Community Benefits – ‘Value’ paint supplied cheaply to community groups

and organisations

www.repaintscotland.com