So, I like to pretend I'm an artist, and I work with Acrylic Paint. Something that I have learned this year while getting back into painting is that Acrylic Paint is *dun dun dun* plastic. I spent a bit of time researching acrylic paint, and the dangers of improper disposal of the wastewater from cleaning brushes. When just dumped down your kitchen sink, the paint in the water not only rehardens in your pipes, and can create a fairly large clog, but also gets into the water system. However, all is not lost, you don't have to throw away your acrylic paint just yet. There are actually a few different methods for proper wastewater disposal that removes the paint from the water and makes it safe. The easiest is leaving it out to evaporate - the water goes off into the air, and the paint gets left behind in a solid form (which some folks have said is recyclable, but I would double check your local waste facilities). But if you don't have the time or patience for nature to take its course (or you have too much water to just wait for evaporation) there are other various methods that will actually clean out the water by reclumping all of the paint, and then it's just a matter of filtration (it's definitely a thing to google to find some proper instructions on if it's something you struggle with)... and still a little drying and evaporation (again, to get that solid form, which may be recyclable in your area).
Hobbies are brilliant and vital for our mental health, and they can be that much greater when you take the steps to make them safe for our environment as well.
