Washing paint brushes down the drain

Did the paintbrush handle have a nice, rounded and gentle taper to it?

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Dawso said..
Well in Mark Australia's ideal world you would have had a gun so no problem.......except the bloke would also have a gun.

seriously though one paint brush no problem but all the other painters doing the same thing combined with all the other chemicals that wash down storm water.... Yes there will be an environmental impact.

Yeah, I really do advocate solving life's little arguments with use of a gun. NOT
Nice free shot, knob.

Back to topic, only uncontaminated water can be washed down storm water.

Well someone should try telling that to the Rockingham Council.
This was last week at the Pond,with the storm water drain in the background.
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hmmmmmmmmmm I reckon you were using water paint scotty boy and you were using a tiny little signwriters brush .... I call hoax

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d1 said..

Did the paintbrush handle have a nice, rounded and gentle taper to it?

Now you're sounding weird.
Are you a kiter ?

I also find recycling a big hassle.
Surely my 100 plastic bottles aren't going to help much.
Besides all the recycled material is transported to one of the Pratt's Visy plants in Asia.
Who knows where the fark it ends up then.

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NewScotty said..

I also find recycling a big hassle.
Surely my 100 plastic bottles aren't going to help much.
Besides all the recycled material is transported to one of the Pratt's Visy plants in Asia.
Who knows where the fark it ends up then.

You have no idea how bad it is here...!

As well as the burnable rubbish in the house bin, I have set up 5 trash cans around the back of the house...
Glass, PET bottles, aluminum cans, tin cans, non-burnable rubbish.

All these classes of trash are collected on different days.

When we put out glass, we have to separate into different bins for clear, brown, and green.
PET bottles have to be separated from the caps.
Non-burnable cannot include batteries - they're recycled separately.
Spray cans have to be punctured and put out... separately.

Carboard and paper must be recycled separately.
Polystyrene (like packing in boxes, meat trays) has its own collection system.
Milk cartons have to be washed, cut open so it's flat and - has its own collection system.

Garden rubbish is not supposed to be thrown out in the burnable rubbish

For struff that can't fit in the bags, you have to apply for a special permit, allowing you to use the town dump, which costs you $1 per 10kgs.

Nothing is collected from the front of your house - you have to carry the stuff to the collection point. In our zone, we have one for burnable (Tuesday and Friday) and glass (every other wednesday) and non-burnable (once a month). For PET bottles and cans/tins we have to take them to a different place...

You have to buy your own rubbish bags - the right ones for your area - and there are only 2 kinds: burnable and non-burnable.

... and you know what the funniest thing is? This only happens in small towns - in Tokyo, Osaka etc there is NO recycling - it's ALL burnable trash.

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NewScotty said..

So I was washing my paint brushes down the drain yesterday and this bloke has a go at me and says it farks the sea life up in the ocean,etc.
Surely a little paint from my brush would be that diluted that it couldn't make a difference could it ?

Best washed in a bucket under an outside tap or hose; first bucket to get most of the paint out and then a rinse onto gravel, garden bed or lawn.

With how many billion of us f**king up the oceans, I'd say that bloke was spot on!

How else does the ocean keep it's blue colour?

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Kamikuza said..

NewScotty said..

I also find recycling a big hassle.
Surely my 100 plastic bottles aren't going to help much.
Besides all the recycled material is transported to one of the Pratt's Visy plants in Asia.
Who knows where the fark it ends up then.

You have no idea how bad it is here...!

As well as the burnable rubbish in the house bin, I have set up 5 trash cans around the back of the house...
Glass, PET bottles, aluminum cans, tin cans, non-burnable rubbish.

All these classes of trash are collected on different days.

When we put out glass, we have to separate into different bins for clear, brown, and green.
PET bottles have to be separated from the caps.
Non-burnable cannot include batteries - they're recycled separately.
Spray cans have to be punctured and put out... separately.

Carboard and paper must be recycled separately.
Polystyrene (like packing in boxes, meat trays) has its own collection system.
Milk cartons have to be washed, cut open so it's flat and - has its own collection system.

Garden rubbish is not supposed to be thrown out in the burnable rubbish

For struff that can't fit in the bags, you have to apply for a special permit, allowing you to use the town dump, which costs you $1 per 10kgs.

Nothing is collected from the front of your house - you have to carry the stuff to the collection point. In our zone, we have one for burnable (Tuesday and Friday) and glass (every other wednesday) and non-burnable (once a month). For PET bottles and cans/tins we have to take them to a different place...

You have to buy your own rubbish bags - the right ones for your area - and there are only 2 kinds: burnable and non-burnable.

... and you know what the funniest thing is? This only happens in small towns - in Tokyo, Osaka etc there is NO recycling - it's ALL burnable trash.

The result of a lack of birth control perhaps ?

When we paint we wrap the brushes and rollers in glad wrap between coats without washing then unwrap and continue with the next coat, works fine. Just through the whole lot away when finished. We used the same roller for masonry paint for about 4 weeks doing this and saved about a litre of paint for each session not having to load up the deep nap roller.

For oil paints, drill a small hole in the handle of the brush before you start then with wire through the hole suspend the used brush in clean water so the oil paint is submerged but the brush not touching the bottom. Simply take the brush wipe the water off on paper towel and start the next coat. Sam applies for oil rollers, put the roller in a bucket of clean water. Being submerged in water stops the paint going off. Pad the roller down with paper towel and give a really good shake to remove the water before using again.

Both techniques save pollution and the brush and roller are easier to use for the second coat.

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NewScotty said..
The result of a lack of birth control perhaps ?

There are no religo-morons here to protest and brainwash against or block the over-the-counter sales of pills and condoms, and abortions are freely available without stigma... so, no.

If that's some kind of jest about the population of 120 million, that would be the result of a prosperous economy with excellent socialized services like medicine and education.

It IS a result of overly enthusiastic bureaucrats, and a cultural belief that women should be in the home doing domestic stuff and are a great source of unpaid labour.