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 ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) ─ Dave McLaughlin, the executive director of Clean Ocean Access, is hoping to change the course of recycling in the boating industry. Shrink-wrap used to protect boats in the ...

Fast Wrap is taking the technology that used to be reserved for gift baskets and using it to wrap just about anything you can imagine, including boats and RVs. The company said the process is an ...

They have it all wrapped up -- for winter, that is. Some Quad-Cities area boat owners have their boats shrink-wrapped as a way to protect it through the winter and early spring months. River City ...

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 ...

Each year, boaters remove their vessels from our waterways and begin the process of winterizing them for colder months. Boat dealerships such as Wakeen’s Family Boating Center in Rock Island use a ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Keep Toledo/Lucas County Beautiful will collect boat shrink wrap at the City of Toledo’s Clean Toledo event on Saturday. The event will occur from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Detwiler ...

Apr. 9—Good news: Boat owners looking for a place to responsibly dispose of the plastic shrink wrap used to winterize their vessels now have access to a new disposal site in Gloucester. Better news: ...

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 ...