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Shrinkwrap Recycling 2024

Welcome to Shrinkwrap Recycling for 2024

Please consider joining our annual effort to keep shrinkwrap OUT of our landfills. In 2024, we are again partnering with the DNR’s Maryland Clean Marina Program and Chesapeake Materials to recycle shrinkwrap.

Our goal this year is to increase the number of participating businesses. Remember, mountains of wrap used each year are ending up in the landfill here in Maryland. Best efforts to recycle can fail due to the need to keep the wrap pure in order to make it reusable (all straps and debris must be kept out of the recycling bags). Help us to make this program a success.

Here’s how it works:

• MTAM will sell and distribute bags that hold up to 40 lbs of clean shrinkwrap to participating marinas, boatyards and marine service companies. We can also sell to individual boaters who are living in Queen Anne’s County.
• Cost of each bag is $15. This cost will include the pickup/transportation and recycling of the filled bags. These are the hard costs to make this program work.
• Critical to the successful recycling of boat shrinkwrap is keeping it pure and clean. All straps, zippers, doors and vents must be removed in order to be made acceptable to any recycler. Dates for pick-up will be sent out to you early in the season so that you will have time to prepare and plan to get the wrap bagged in time. ONLY ONE PICK UP PER LOCATION WILL BE ARRANGED.
• Only bagged wrap will be accepted by Chesapeake Materials.
• We ran a test of putting the wrap into one of the bags. We fit the wrap from a 35-foot boat into one of the bags. By condensing the wrap, you may get more in the bag, but we ask that you keep the weight to 40 lbs maximum. (See demo video on our website HERE.)