PaintCare
Abigail Kruse is currently serving as the Regional Program Coordinator for Washington State at PaintCare, a position held since September 2022. Prior to this role, Abigail worked as the MSW Program Coordinator at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota from October 2021 to September 2022, and as the Assistant Manager and Head of Sales at Club Pilates from February 2021 to March 2022. Abigail's experience also includes an internship with the National Audubon Society in the summer of 2019, where education and data collection on nesting shore birds were key responsibilities. Additionally, volunteering as an English tutor and citizenship testing tutor for immigrants took place at UMCM Suncoast earlier in 2019, and earlier experience included working as a Camp Counselor at Camp Pinnacle in 2018. Abigail holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Environmental Studies from Eckerd College, completed in 2020.
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PaintCare
PaintCare Inc., a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, represents paint manufacturers (paint producers) to plan and operate paint stewardship programs in U.S. states and jurisdictions that pass paint stewardship laws. PaintCare is a program of the American Coatings Association (ACA) a membership-based trade association of the paint manufacturing industry. Working through the Paint Producer Stewardship Initiative (PPSI) facilitated by the Product Stewardship Institute (PSI), ACA supported the passage of the nation’s first paint stewardship law in Oregon and established PaintCare in 2009. Since then, PaintCare has launched programs across the country following the passage of similar laws in California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Maine, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, and is developing a program for Illinois. In states where PaintCare operates, we encourage households and businesses to take their unwanted, leftover paint to a PaintCare drop-off site. Most locations are paint retailers, which are convenient locations open year-round and seven days a week. Across the eleven PaintCare programs, there are more than 2,400 drop-off sites, most of which are paint retailers.