Eco-minded Studio Practices & Products includes reuse, recycling, and appropriate disposal of materials.
Recycle:
Fortunately, we have a recycling program in our town.
Plastic materials that come into the studio such as canvas wrapper, disposable glove packages, etc., and cardboard, paper scraps are separated from the garbage and recycled.
Unused mixed paint is allowed to dry as its dry form is the best way to dispose of acrylic paint.
Re-Use:
Smaller medium containers are reused for holding many items. They are also used to hold paint containers upended when near finished to get the remaining paint from them, as well as to prop canvases up from the table surface for addressing the edges and drying. The lids are saved and used as palettes for mixing colours, the paint peels out of them quite easily for re-use. Excess containers are recycled instead of reused.
Tri-Art have chosen PETE plastic for all their packaging, including tubes. "It is fully recyclable, does not leach, and requires less energy to produce.”
GOLDEN acrylics "are packaged in HDPE plastic, which can then be reused or recycled in many areas."