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Jimmy Leslie posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 6 months agoI read some pretty alarming news about plastic recycling in The Morning Brew: Less than 5% of US plastic was actually recycled last year, says Greenpeace (morningbrew.com)
Of note in this article is this: According to the report, less than 5% of all plastic waste that was discarded by Americans in 2021 (51 million tons) was recycled. That’s a significant drop even from the EPA’s 2018 estimate of 8.7%. Plastic recycling rates peaked at 9.5% in 2014 and have been declining ever since.
This means that it’s most important to produce less plastic in the first place.
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Destine Moore posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 6 months agoLast week the sell kits for the new launch of Liquitex Basics Acrylic Fluid were sent out (70+ kits). These kits are intended to aid in demoing, previewing and selling the new range. Thank you to everyone who assisted on this project! Your collaboration and input have been greatly appreciated. I hope that everyone who receives these kits will enjoy them and put them to good use!
Each kit contains the following:
- 8-118 ml Basics Acrylic Fluid bottles + 1 Current Basics Acrylic Tube
- Primary Red (Current Basics Acrylic)
- New Basics Acrylic Fluid:
- Primary Red
- Primary Blue
- Primary Yellow
- Light Blue Permanent
- Light Green Permanent
- Silver
- Iridescent Graphite
- Titanium White
- 2 Basics Brushes
- Flat # 4 , Round #6
- Blank Demo Sheet(s) (1-2 packs of 25 depending on recipient)
- 1 Painted Demo Sheet
- Sell Sheet(s) (1 or 15 depending on the recipient)
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the kits look great!…
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Great work Destine! These will absolutely help to bring the product range to life for buyers, and help our sales team, TFAC and distributor reps when selling in and demonstrating the attributes of the new range. Thank you!…
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Outstanding! Great job coordinating this initiative from concept & components through delivery. Such an important and proven tool to support product launches. …
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Thank you all!…
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A great idea Destine, I’m sure this will also generate social media content and awareness as people share what they have done and seen.
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- 8-118 ml Basics Acrylic Fluid bottles + 1 Current Basics Acrylic Tube
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Jane Beeston posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 6 months agohello all, please do check out the article on the Colart Community Day:-
Remember this day not only benefits you and Colart but also the cause you choose:-
- Extra pairs of happy-to-help hands mean more than small donations.
- New faces are uplifting for those who volunteer week in week out.
- To be helped by someone who helps ‘for the love of it’ feels positive and validating
- It elevates the cause to have a company like Colart donating people and time
and
- We’re all in this together – someday it might be you who needs the help.
…..so what are you waiting for? ☺
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Jane Beeston posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 6 months agoHappy Diwali 2022!
Diwali, the festival of lights, joy, prosperity and happiness, is a religious observance commemorated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and some Buddhists around the world.
May this auspicious occasion light up your life with happiness, joy and peace. Happy Diwali!
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Happy Diwali everyone! Interesting reading about attempts to limit fireworks and replace them with LED drone lights etc to reduce emissions and pollution which seems very logical – but I have to admit to being a sucker for a firework – maybe limiting it to public displays is the answer?…
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Delphine Vaucois posted an update in the group
The Wall 3 years, 6 months agoCONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR 20-YEAR COLART ANNIVERSARY LIZ !
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Congratulations Liz.
It’s always a pleasure to work with you.
Annette…
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Millions of tonnes of clothing, shoes and other textiles end up in landfill every year because very little is sent for recycling .
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Good thought-provoking post Jimmy. This is partly institutional and partly mindset. In Europe post covid we have a shortage of suitable plastic for recycling and the big toiletry and household consumable companies are snapping up supply to be able put their shampoo’s etc into recycled packaging.Institutional issues often centre around contracts to supply waste to incineration plants. In UK some of these plants were built on borrowed money backed up by contractually guaranteed streams of waste from local authorities – long term that’s crazy economics.With regards to mind set I fear that some people perhaps do not hold the same views as those widely held in Europe. Step by step we shall overcome.
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Jimmy, thanks for reminding us how little plastic gets recycled.
And on top of that, plastic takes 500 years to decompose! Compared to 1-2years for card. This has been the driver behind an innovation project Ajita and I kick-started last November with a specialist sustainability design agency. The project is called VacForm 2.0: to design a card vac form to hold and protect our most fragile aluminium tubes in sets.
With help from David Guay and Carole Castendet (and others) we are costing the samples up and transit testing them before the end of this year. We paid for a Life Cycle Analysis on our card v recycled plastic vac form and the card performed well.
We hope this will become a live NPD project very soon.
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