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Paint River

From: Pat Maxwell
Series: October 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Length: 01:24

Have you ever bathed in paint? Canary yellow or baby blue? Well of course you haven't! But almost three million Americans could have... Read the full description.

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Playing: Paint River
From: Pat Maxwell

Default-piece-image-1 Have you ever bathed in paint? Canary yellow or baby blue? Well of course you haven't! But almost three million Americans could have last year, since collectively, we threw away 68 million gallons of paint--enough to fill three million bathtubs! And that's not counting store rejects...

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Have you ever bathed in paint? Canary yellow or baby blue? Well of course you haven't! But almost three million Americans could have last year, since collectively, we threw away 68 million gallons of paint--enough to fill three million bathtubs! And that's not counting store rejects...