Orinoco is part of the national Community RePaint network of paint re-use stores which take in usable waste paint and make it available at no or low cost to anyone who wants it.

This valuable service reduces waste and allows people to redecorate on a budget, in an environmentally responsible way.

• Community Repaint (find your nearest RePaint outlet)
• Decorator Shop
• Donate Paint
• Get Paint

Latest paint news

1. Newlife ‘recycled’ household paints now at Orinoco
   We’ve just taken delivery of a pallet of brand new (sort of – see below) ‘recycled’ Newlife household paints. They’re available in 5 litre containers of matt emulsion in …
2. Community RePaint redistributed 218,364 litres of paint in 2012
   Over 300 million litres of paint is sold in this country every year, of which an estimated 50 million litres remains unused; stored in homes, sheds and garages or simply thrown away. Community RePaint …
3. Community RePaint is 20 years old
   As part of the 20th Anniversary of Community RePaint we have been asked if we can help document how important the nationwide network of RePaint stores, like the one we run at Orinoco have been to indi …
4. Dead Salmon and Elephant’s Breath at Orinoco: new Farrow & Ball paint
   We’ve just received a pallet full of brand new paint direct from the Farrow & Ball paint factory in Dorset. The tins are marked ‘second’, but there’s absolutely nothing wro …
5. Thanks for the thanks – St John Ambulance, Abingdon
   We’ve just received a letter from St. John Ambulance in Abingdon thanking us for the paint they used to rennovate their building in Caldecot Road. We’d like to say thanks for the thanks. F …
6. New paint supplies in the Orinoco ArtShop
   There’s more than scrap in the Scrapstore. Visit Orinoco for low prices on a range of beautiful new Reeves paints and art materials. We’ve got readymix tempera, poster paint, glitter paint …