Sustainability Summary

This is an unclaimed profile. Gamblin Artists Colors has not joined Sustainability Tracker to verify their sustainability credentials. We gathered what we could from public sources.

Gamblin Artists Colors Sustainability Profile

Sustainability Summary

This is an unclaimed profile. Gamblin Artists Colors has not joined Sustainability Tracker to verify their sustainability credentials. We gathered what we could from public sources.

What do our labels mean?

Gamblin Artists Colors says its mission is to lead oil painting and printmaking into the future by making materials that are safer for painters, their paintings and the environment. The company states that it runs as sustainably as possible, with attention to health, safety, transparency, and environmental impact. Its sustainability-related work includes reducing waste, reusing packaging, using wind power for its factory, and developing products such as conservation colors, reclaimed earth colors, and safer painting mediums and solvents. Gamblin is also a certified B Corporation and publishes environmental and social impact information.

About Gamblin Artists Colors

Status
Unverified

Website
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Employees
5 - 25

Country
United States

Gamblin Artists Colors Sustainability Actions

Reused waste pigment

Our first Reclaimed Color, Torrit Grey, has been popular since the early 1990s when Gamblin decided to recycle pigment collected by our air filtration system and turn it into paint. Torrit Grey reduces the amount of waste that goes into landfills and encourages responsible living and art-making.

Used wind power

Our employees lead the way on sustainability. Rather than drive, last year they biked or walked over 20,000 miles to and from our factory. We reuse packaging materials we receive, use wind-power for our factory, and painstakingly avoid waste throughout the paint-making process.

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Made safer painting materials

Gamblin was founded to make oil painting materials that are safer for painters, their paintings and the environment. Safety means liberating painters from traditional mediums that require harsh solvents, that crack and yellow over time, and eventually make their way into our watersheds.

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Joined reclaimed pigment project

In 2018 we officially joined forces by making one full batch of paint with the reclaimed pigment. The process to collect the pigment worked, and an oil paint manufacturer was on board. The concept was no longer just an idea, it was a reality.

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Gave sales back to cause

Gamblin is also giving 20% of set sales back to the cause and encouraging our retail partners to donate a portion of their proceeds as well.

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Gamblin Artists Colors Sustainability Commitments

2030

Reduce plastic and packaging

Gamblin is committed to reducing the use of plastic and unnecessary packaging wherever we can.

2019

Scale reclaimed pigment plant

The Kickstarter funding was used to design and build a pilot plant with a goal to refine the process and a dream to build a full-scale facility that could treat 1,000,000 gallons/day. The grant was made and in late 2019, Gamblin received a pallet of Reclaimed Earth Pigments.