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, ...

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 ...

Shrink-wrap heat guns range from a few hundred bucks to more than $1,000. While it’s true with heat tools that you get what you pay for, DIY boaters probably don’t need—or even want—some of the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever wondered what happens to all that thick, white plastic covering on boats stored on dry land during the winter months ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 1.5 million pounds of plastic come off boats around Maine each spring, the vast majority bound for landfills or incinerators. Credit: Clean Ocean Access / Maine Monitor This story was ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered what happens to all that thick, white plastic covering on boats stored on dry land during the winter months on Cape Cod? Fortunately, all that plastic is not going into garbage ...