In November 2000, Dunn-Edwards Corporation and Amazon Environmental, Inc. signed an agreement to launch a cooperative venture for producing and marketing recycled latex paints.

Amazon is Dunn-Edwards’ exclusive supplier of recycled latex paints, and Dunn-Edwards is Amazon’s exclusive distributor of recycled latex paints, sold under the RECOVER^® brand name in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas.

This cooperative venture has allowed each company to focus on its own key strengths and expertise, and to combine their efforts in ways that will greatly expand the availability and use of recycled latex paints.

In California, paint recycling has been spurred by local government Household Hazardous Waste collection programs; approximately 20 to 25 percent of the waste collected consists of leftover (but usable) latex paints.

Recycling is the preferred alternative to disposal, but the volume of recyclable latex paint currently outstrips processing capacity and market development.

Amazon has run its paint recycling operations since 1995.

Amazon accepts recyclable latex paints and chemically similar recyclable materials to produce recycled latex paints and a proprietary latex cement additive. This process achieves 100 percent recycling of all accepted materials.

Before the new agreement, Amazon sold its recycled latex paints primarily to various government agencies and graffiti abatement organizations. This venture has helped expand sales of recycled paints into new markets.

Dunn-Edwards and Amazon collaborate on specifications for recycled latex paint products. Amazon has relationships with county and municipal waste agencies, household waste management contractors, industrial waste generators, and other sources of recyclable latex paint.

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