Garbage Island

A large source of environmental pollution produced by painters is the plastic we use. It's cheap, readily available, and easy to use. Most painters will go through rolls and rolls of plastic to cover floors, furniture, bushes, and windows to make sure are no drips or overspray.

While it is essentially unavoidable to use some plastic while painting, we've increased our reliance on re-usable canvas dropcloths. We've cut the amount of garbage we produce to about a third of what is use to be.

Reducing the amount of garbage we all produce is important, especially in light of news like the garbage island twice the size of Texas that is floating around just North of Hawaii: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/04/14/ntm.garbage.island.cnn
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&refer=home&sid=a14k5rGoGenk