A painting partnership.* MetroPaint, a recycling and retail program of the Portland, Ore., region's Metro government, has partnered with King County's (Washington) LinkUp link·up n. 1. The act of linking or connecting: a linkup of two orbiting spacecraft. 2. Something that serves to link or join; a connection. 3. Program. The goal of LinkUp is to increase the use of recycled and reusable re·use tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us materials in consumer products throughout the Puget Sound Puget Sound (py  `jĕt), arm of the Pacific Ocean, NW Wash., connected with the Pacific by Juan de Fuca Strait, entered through the Admiralty Inlet and extending in two arms c. region.
MetroPaint will work with LinkUp to begin collecting and selling its 100-percent recycled paint in King County. MetroPaint is one of the only operations in the Northwest that is recycling latex latex, emulsion of a polymer (e.g., rubber) in water (see colloid). Natural latexes are produced by a number of plants, are usually white in color, and often contain, in addition to rubber, various gums, oils, and waxes. paint and making a recycled latex paint product, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a press release from the King County Department of Natural Resources Many sub-national governments have a Department of Natural Resources or similarly-named organization:
The paint used in MetroPaint's product is collected from household hazardous waste programs in Oregon and Washington. The recycled paint is filtered to industry standards and tested for performance and environmental safety. LinkUp works with MetroPaint and other manufacturers to help increase the use of recycled materials in the manufacturing process and to increase King County area markets for recycled content products. Businesses in the LinkUp program use recycled materials in the products they make or process certain types of recyclable materials for use by others in the Puget Sound area. In recent months, LinkUp has worked to expand its reach beyond private businesses. The partnership with MetroPaint marks the program's first collaboration with another government entity. LinkUp was launched in 2000 and is sponsored by the King County Solid Waste Division. The program currently has 22 partners working with all types of recycled materials from glass, to textiles to food. More information is available at http://dnr.metrokc. gov/linkup or www.metro-region.org. |
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