Abstract: Process for reclaiming paint or a like material, which during the essentially horizontal spraying thereof does not land on the object to be treated, for reclaiming the respective part of the paint use being made of an approximately vertical wall, of which the upper edge is somewhat closer to the object to be treated than the lower edge, between the object and the wall an air stream being generated, which is directed essentially from top to bottom and which at its lowest point, under the lower edge of the wall, is bent off above a liquid bath, from which bath liquid is aspired, which at the upper edge of the reclaiming wall is brought thereon and runs down the wall, back into the liquid bath.