MetroPaint is a recycled-content latex paint (RCLP) that has been produced in Portland, Oregon, United States by Metro since 1992.
Additives are blended in, and the paint is then filtered, performance tested, packaged into pails and cans, and sold back to the public at a price intended to recover the program's labor and material costs.
Metro manufactures the paint primarily as an interior/exterior application, low-sheen finish, in two quality grades: Standard and Green Seal Certified.
Metro began collecting and recycling post-consumer latex paint (PCLP) from the public in 1991 as part of its household hazardous waste program.
Initially sorted into only about 5 or 6 basic colors, the latex paint was bulked into 55-gallon drums and then donated to charitable non-profit organizations or given away to public customers at no charge.
This combined recycling and retail center allowed for more efficient processing of the paint, and packaging into more marketable 5-gallon pails.
In February 2005, Metro relocated the recycling and sales to a new facility, located on Swan Island in Portland, Oregon, USA.
In June 2009, Metro partnered with Miller Paint as a major dealer for the Certified MetroPaint product line.
Technicians inspect the label and contents of each container to ensure that only latex paint meeting specific requirements is recycled.
Metro sets the price of MetroPaint to leverage the supply and demand for each color in an effort to recover 100% of the Metro Latex Paint Recycling program's labor and materials costs, with this goal never being fully realized, until the Oregon Paint Stewardship law went into effect, resulting in PaintCare.