JMC Decorating actively promotes the use of eco friendly paints. Our commitment to the environment underpins our developmental goals and to achieve this we have set in place a company policy to drive this commitment. We dispose of paint and solvents keeping in line with environmental and european guidelines.

Why should we use environmentally friendly & healthier paints?

For many years people worked with lead-based paints. Soon research brought to light its harmful effects. The paint industry found a new alternative in an acrylic form still used today. However this product still uses solvents which can be harmful and irritating to those that use it and those who are around it.

A report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) linked working with solvent-based paints with an increased risk of developing cancer. The IRAC said "exposure to solvent-based paints is carcinogenic (group1)" Scandinavian countries were aware of this and moved towards solvent-free based paints. In Denmark their paints are 90% water-based.

Most of the ingredients used in synthetic paint are derived from crude oil or mined from minerals which are non renewable, and hence unsustainable. Synthetic paint manufacture is extremely wasteful, producing 10 times their own weight in toxic waste, i.e. for one tonne of paint, 10 tonnes of toxic waste is created.