Registered boat owners in the U.S. dispose of 92 million pounds of used shrink wrap each year, the majority of which ends up in landfills. Clean Ocean Access, a non-profit, launched a recycling ...

In a pilot project for the Rhode Island Marine Trades Association and Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corp., 15 Ocean State marinas recycled 40,000 pounds of marine shrink wrap this year. Plastic ...

A state-launched program recycles the material into rigid plastic blocks used as spacers within highway guardrail systems. This conversion of trash into a traffic control doodad has kept nearly 1.1 ...

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Every year, U.S. boat owners generate about 92 million pounds of shrink wrap. The vast majority of this plastic material ends up in landfills and often contributes to plastic pollution in our oceans.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Time to launch your boat. Which means you can’t wait to rip off that shrink wrap and plastic banding and drop your boat into the lake. But, wait! You can reuse your plastic boat ...

The Council of the Great Lakes Region and Alliance to End Plastic Waste have teamed with several organizations, including LRS, to launch a boat shrink wrap recycling pilot program for the Chicago area ...