2012 Prince Edward Island Paint Recycling Program Annual Report

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1 2012 Prince Edward Island Paint Recycling Program Annual Report Submitted to: Submitted by: Prince Edward Island Department of Environment, Labour and Justice Product Care Association Date: June 30, 2013

2 Table of Contents 1.0 About Product Care Association Report Period Program Summary Brand Owner Information Total amount of waste paint collected Operations and Processing Reuse Recycling Landfill Energy Recovery Incineration Depot Listings Processing and Containment Facilities Communication and Education Program Website Point of Sale and Point of Return Material... 7 APPENDIX A List of Program Brand Owners as of December 31, APPENDIX B 2012 Map of Collection Sites PEI Paint Stewardship Program Annual Report Page 2 of 12

3 1.0 About Product Care Association Product Care Association is a federally incorporated, not-for-profit product stewardship association formed in response to stewardship regulations and is governed by a multi-sector industry board of directors. Product Care has managed paint and other household hazardous waste industry stewardship programs since Product Care s members are the producers (manufacturers, distributors and retailers) obligated by the Regulation under the category of architectural paint. Product Care has received approval to operate the PEI Paint Stewardship Program by the Department of Environment, Labour and Justice under the Materials Recycling Regulations (the Regulation ) of the Environment Protection Act. 1.1 Report Period This report covers the program from its launch date on September 1, 2012 to December 31, Except as noted, the information in this report will represent the period September 1, 2012 to December 31, Program Summary The Prince Edward Island Paint Recycling Program offers collection sites throughout the province to which consumers can bring leftover household paint. The collection sites are operated by Island Waste Management Corporation under contract to Product Care. Product Care supplies collection sites with standard reusable collection bins and other containers such as drums. The filled bins are then collected from the collection sites by a hauler contracted to the program, and empty bins are dropped off. The full collection containers are shipped to the processor for recycling. Additional elements of the program managed by Product Care Association include revenue management, communications and administration. The program is funded by membership fees, known as eco fees, remitted to Product Care by its members based on the quantity of sales of the designated paint products sold in PEI. Per the Materials Recycling Regulation, no brand owners or retailers are permitted to charge the eco-fee as a separate line item The eco fee rates are set by Product Care. Program revenues are applied to the operation of the program, including education, collection system, administration, transport, recycling and disposal of collected residual products as well as a reserve fund. 1.3 Brand Owner Information As of December 31, 2012, the Program had 30 paint brand owners (listed in Appendix A). Program members reported the sale of 103,725 units of program products in PEI during the reporting period, for an estimated liquid volume sold of 249,925 litres PEI Paint Stewardship Program Annual Report Page 3 of 12

4 1.4 Total amount of waste paint collected Table 1 below shows the total amount of waste paint collected and processed by the program for the reporting period, by collection container (tubskids and drums) and by approximate residual volume (litres). Table 1: Total Amount of Waste Paint Collected and Processed during the 2012 Reporting Period. Item Volume Collected Volume Processed Number of Tubskids Residual Paint Volume (L) 1 Number of Aerosol Drums Residual Aerosol Paint Volume (L) 2 Total Residual Paint Volume (L) , , , ,796 (1) Conversion rate: L per tubskid determined by the average volume of material generated during processing (2) Conversion rate 5.25 Ls per drum During the reporting period, a total of 135 tubskids of leftover paint were delivered from the collection sites by Product Care s contracted hauler to the Laurentide Re-sources Atlantic Inc. facility in Springhill, NS for processing. Laurentide processed 94 tubskids (opened, sorted and bulked into shipping containers). In total, 14,131 paint containers were processed in The remaining 41 tubskids were processed in the following year. 2.0 Operations and Processing Table 2 shows the breakdown (in percentages) of waste paint collected that was recycled back into paint, disposed of in an engineered landfill, or recovered for energy. Table 2: Percentage of Waste Paint by Disposal Method. Method Volume (litres) Percentage Recycle 9, % Landfill % Energy Recovery 2, % Total 11, % The following section describes the processing methods referred to in the table above: 2012 PEI Paint Stewardship Program Annual Report Page 4 of 12

5 2.1 Reuse During the reporting period, no paint was sent for reuse. Product Care will continue to investigate the opportunity to establish a Paint Exchange program. The Paint Exchange program would make better quality paint available to the public, free of charge, at collection sites that agree to participate. 2.2 Recycling At the Laurentide Re-sources facility, paint containers are removed from the collection bins, inspected, opened, sorted by type, colour and quality, and poured into shipping containers. The bulked paint of recyclable quality is then transferred to an affiliated processor, Peintures Recuperees du Quebec (PRQ) in Victoriaville, QC for final processing and manufacturing of recycled paint. Table 3 illustrates the quantity of latex paint and of alkyd paint that was recycled. Table 3: Quantity and Type of Paint Recycled. Type Litres Percentage Latex paint 8,482 93% Alkyd paint 636 7% Total 9, % 2.3 Landfill The sorting and bulking of the latex paint by Laurentide Re-sources generated 410 litres of nonrecyclable latex sludge/solid which were solidified and disposed of at a synthetic-lined landfill cell with leachate collection. 2.4 Energy Recovery Not all collected oil based paint is of suitable quality for paint recycling. In some cases the paint may be contaminated, not in liquid form, wrong colour or of the wrong chemistry for paint recycling. In addition, regulations such as the Federal VOC Regulations, required tighter limits on certain chemical constituents, which tend to be higher in older paints, making it difficult to recycle oil based paint back into paint. The market for the recycled oil based paint is significantly smaller than that for the water based products and continues to diminish as water base technology replaces oil based technology. Due to the high solvent content of oil based paints; oil based paints are suitable for energy recovery. Through the process of fuel blending, some of the oil based paint collected by the program that is not suitable for paint recycling, is used as an alternative energy source in applications such as permitted incinerators. During the reporting period 2,269 litres of alkyd paint and paint from paint aerosols were blended with other fuels and utilized for energy value at licensed facilities PEI Paint Stewardship Program Annual Report Page 5 of 12

6 2.5 Incineration During the reporting period, no material went for incineration. 2.6 Depot Listings As of December 31, 2012, six collection sites participated in the program. All six collection sites are operated and managed by Island Waste Management Corporation. See Table 4 for the list of collection sites. Appendix B contains a provincial map of the depot locations. Table 4: 2012 PEI Paint Program Collection Sites Depot Name Address City GreenIsle 8 Superior Crescent Charlottetown Brockton 2202 Dock Road Rte # 150 Elmsdale New London Rte #6 Green Gables Murray River 378 Cape Bear Road Rte #18 Murray River Dingwells Mills 100 Selkirk Road Rte #309 Souris EPWMF Rte #2 Wellington Station 3.0 Processing and Containment Facilities Laurentide Re-sources Atlantic Inc. 100 Main Street Springhill, NS B0M 1X0 Société Laurentide Inc. 345 Bulstrode Street Victoriaville, QC G6T 1P7 Clean Harbors Environmental Services Rang 5 East 400 Galipeau Street Thurso, QC J0X 3B0 4.0 Communication and Education Program Product Care implemented a communication and education program to educate consumers in accordance with the Regulation. The following sections describe the communication and education programs in detail. 4.1 Website The Product Care website includes: 2012 PEI Paint Stewardship Program Annual Report Page 6 of 12

7 Depot finder (a map showing the locations of the collection sites) Depot hours and operations Program product list Promotional materials for downloading An estimated 650 unique visitors utilized the website during the reporting period Sept Dec 31, Point of Sale and Point of Return Material More than 5,000 pieces of promotional materials were printed and distributed in 2012 (see Appendix C): 1000 rack cards that provide program information in English and French were sent to paint retailers. 70 posters in English and French were sent to paint retailers. 12 collection site posters were sent to the 6 sites PEI Paint Stewardship Program Annual Report Page 7 of 12

8 APPENDIX A List of Program Brand Owners as of December 31, Ontario Ltd dba NLS Products Hudson's Bay Company Akzo Nobel Canada Inc Kleen-Flo Tumbler Industries Ltd. BASF - The Chemical Company Les Produits Techni-Seal Inc. Behr Process Corp. Martin & Associates Ind Benjamin Moore & Co. Ltd. Michaels Stores Inc Canadian Tire Peintures MF Paints Cansel Survey Equipment Plasti Kote Inc. (Valspar) CBR Products PPG Canada Inc. Chalifour Canada Pro Form Products Limited Denalt Paints Rust-Oleum Consumer Brands Farrow & Ball Canada Ltd Sansin Corporation General Paint Corp. Sherwin-Williams Co Henry Company, Canada, Inc WalMart Canada Home Depot Canada Wood Essence Distributing Home Hardware Xim Products Inc 2012 PEI Paint Stewardship Program Annual Report Page 8 of 12

9 APPENDIX B 2012 Map of Collection Sites 2012 PEI Paint Stewardship Program Annual Report Page 9 of 12

10 APPENDIX C 2012 Point of Sale and Point of Return Promotional Material Point of Sale rack card (8.5 x3.5 ) 2012 PEI Paint Stewardship Program Annual Report Page 10 of 12

11 Point of Sale poster (10 x13 ) 2012 PEI Paint Stewardship Program Annual Report Page 11 of 12

12 Point of Return Poster (11 x17 ) 2012 PEI Paint Stewardship Program Annual Report Page 12 of 12