The manufacturer of BioWrap, a pale green, single-use shrink wrap, claims the material breaks down in less than 5 years.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s easy to recycle boat shrink-wrap, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. The state is encouraging boaters to “think green” when removing the winter shrink-wrap covers from ...

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 ...

If you recently purchased a boat, you are likely enjoying it as the summer weather begins to warm. Even though you're having a blast on the water right now, you should start taking steps to store your ...