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Shrink Wrapping Your Boat: Is It Worth the Cost?

When the boating season comes to a close, and the weather takes a turn for the cooler, winterizing your boat is an essential part of taking care of it for the season. Between fuel stabilizing, ...

Mainers are switching to biodegradable boat wrap. But is it too good to be true?

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

Shrink wrap may protect Maine boats, but it can harm the environment

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Wicked Local

Boat shrink wrap is rarely recycled, so where does it all go and is there a better option?

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 ...
MLive

Boating season is coming: Here’s how to recycle boat shrink-wrap

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 ...
Portland Press Herald

Boat shrink wrap piling up as recycling efforts flounder

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WPRI 12

Got wrap?: Newport company wants to recycle your boat’s shrink-wrap cover

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 ...
Star Tribune

Minnesota lawmaker proposes a recycling fix for a sea of leftover boat shrink wrap

Minnesota lake cabin owner Jim Nicholson knows the drill. When loons in the Brainerd lakes area start flocking together for their fall migration, it's time to pull his boat ashore near Outing and ...
SFGate

Shrink wrap plastic now covers more than boats

Armed with mega heat guns, a small group gathered on a chilly morning taking aim not at the cold but at thick plastic sheeting draped over a small mountain of construction pipe. Guns blazing, they ...
Long Island Press

Boat Shrink-Wrap Recycling Program Expands

The C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta and Oakcliff Sailing have announced that the two organizations have joined forces to create a new match-racing event for adaptive sailors in ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Honey, they shrink-wrap the boats

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 ...