How hard it is to be green?!!

Removing all the paint you can with old newspaper will make your roller and tray easier to get clean without wasting a lot of water or filling the drain with paint.

Keep the bottles and tins until you have washed something that is too delicate or too large for the dishwasher, and wash them in that still-reasonably-hottish-and-soapy water. If they are likely to dry out and be more difficult to wash, fill them with water before you let them stand.

Also leaving ANY dirty dish to soak can mean you use less water and detergent getting it clean.

Used tins and bottles do not need to be sparkling, just clean.

Keep a washing up bowl in your sink. Every time you wash your hands or rinse something, do so over the bowl so that you can collect the water. Use that to rinse cans ( or even water the garden. )When draining boiled veg, do so into the washing up bowl so that the water can be utilized for cleaning "dirties" like tins.

I have a shower over the bath. I put the plug in and collect the shower water. I use that to water my garden in the summer ( bailing out with a bowl and bucket.)

I drink black tea. Anything that is left over ( rarely!) goes to my house plants. They love black tea, especially my windowsill basil

Think of the energy that goes into producing the brush as well. From what I have read it is greener to wash. Do not do under running tap and use water based paints

We are all so taken in by retailers. The best roller has wool, not plastic foam. This can easily be washed and used again and again. Have one must be about 40 years old.

I rinse out all my bottles/tins/plastic before putting it in the recycling.

When I paint I always wash the brushes/roller but I do buy good quality, my Dad was a Painter & Decorator

Difficult to know what is best

The trouble it's not cheap to be green . If the government made green items cheaper , people would more likely to change .

Similar thing, do you wash out your bottles, (plastic, tins) before you put them in the recycling bins? I do, couldn´t bear to throw in a ketchup bottle with gunge at the bottom. But it rather seems to beat the point with all the water being used. I remember a beekeeper putting a notice on the recycling bins asking people to wash out their bottles before putting them in, as his bees were dying from rancid left-overs in bottles.

Wel trisher I think you have hit in the nub of anything ‘green’
To change one thing, another is put under pressure.
None of us knows enough, and facts are emerging every day which change the direction we should support!

Back to your problem, have you googled it? You should get more precise info than you might on here!
Wel done for trying to do the right thing though!?

There used to be a forum called something like 'It's easy to be Green'. Dick Strawbridge of Return to the Chateau fame ran it.
But I can't answer your question, Trisher. I don't know much about painting, of any kind.