San Francisco-based Brightmark, a waste solutions provider, has announced that it completed a pilot collection program for boat wraps with a local marine services dealer near the company’s plastics renewal facility in Ashley, Indiana. “Boat wrap is a pure waste stream that has always been difficult to properly recycle,” says Steve Christman, executive director of the Northeast Indiana Solid Waste District. “This program fits perfectly because it allows us to turn the waste into something of value to boaters.”
The wrap, a linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE), is similar in structure to heavy-duty garbage bags and is difficult to recycle as a somewhat contaminated, seasonal material. By collecting the wrap at local marinas, Brightmark says it is ensuring that these wraps do not end up in landfills and are instead being used as a fuel source for local vehicles and power boats. The ultra-low sulfur diesel and gasoline blendstocks produced from the boat wrap and other co-mingled plastic waste will be sold to BP where it will then go into the wholesale transportation fuel pool in the Midwest.
There are more than 11 million boats registered in the United States. A significant portion of those boats need to be wrapped when they are in dry dock during the winter months. The amount of boat wrap removed each year adds up to approximately 110,000 tons of waste, which, when recycled, would equal nearly 21,000 barrels of renewable fuel.
Source: Recycling Today
Finnish site 
Global site