Recycling painted plasterboard
With construction waste and building materials making up a major portion of waste going into landfills, many manufacturers are focusing their efforts on finding recycling options.

Winstone Wallboards currently has a programme in place where GIB® Board offcuts are crushed then used as a compost additive or applied directly to land as a soil additive. The GIB® Board helps to break down the clay content, particularly useful given that high clay soils are common in many areas.

It has been a common misconception that only unpainted GIB® Board could be recycled in this manner. However independent testing commissioned by Resene and Winstone Wallboards has shown this to be a complete fallacy. GIB® Board painted with Resene Environmental Choice paints can be recycled as compost or soil additives in the same manner as unpainted GIB® Board.

With the growing demand for green systems, materials recycling and consideration of the whole of life of the material stream, the benefits of specifying Resene Environmental Choice approved paints extend from low or no VOCs on application through to the ability to recycle the plasterboard when future renovations are undertaken. Most Resene interior decorative paints have Environmental Choice approval so you can choose from an extensive range of sheen levels from gloss through to flat to suit your design plans and still enable the plasterboard to be recycled at the end of its useful life in the building.