Paint Recycling Ends In Norwich

It's the kind of groundbreaking scheme that central government should mainstream across the country.

Instead, it's reliant upon the lottery for funding, and now, it's being left to die a death.

Community RePaint, which has branches all over the country, aims to redistribute tins of people's paint rather than them being sent to landfill. Scores of community projects, schools and people on income support or low wages have benefited from the 30,000 litres of second-hand paint which have been redistributed over the years. The main aims of the project were to at least double the amount of paint reused in Norfolk and to raise awareness of reducing hazardous paint waste going to landfill.