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Paint tools = single-use culture. The reality on site is obvious: they’re treated as disposable. Once they’re clogged with paint, they’re messy to clean, nearly impossible to recycle, and most end up tossed into general construction waste. Now scale that up. A single project can chew through dozens of rollers. Large commercial builds? Hundreds! Think globally, and suddenly you’re looking at millions of rollers binned every year. Not a perfect stat, but a very real problem,

Microplastics might be tiny, but the impact is anything but. Paints and coatings used in construction are now recognised as a major source of microplastic emissions and ocean pollution. When paint begins to dry it forms a plastic film and when the tools are washed, and the water discharged microplastics particles are released. That’s exactly where Washbox comes in: already operating across the Australia, UK, Europe and the US with simple, mobile, and affordable wash systems d