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It protected your boat all winter, now it’s time to protect the environment.
Clean white boat wrap is accepted through this drop-off program at the Dartmouth Transfer Station. Zippers and straps must be removed and discarded. Spray painted wrap cannot be accepted.
Dartmouth Recycling photo.
“Shrink wrap is a recyclable plastic and it is a waste of our limited disposal resources at Crapo Hill to treat it as garbage. We are working with the Waterways Commission and the Harbormaster to alert individual boaters of this win-win solution to the annual shrink wrap disposal problem,” said Tim Barber, Interim Director of Public Works in the Town of Dartmouth.
Dartmouth residents may take boat wrap to the Dartmouth Transfer Station, now through July 1, 2021. A transfer station permit is required. There is a container for boat wrap only. The Dartmouth Transfer Station is open Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. and Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Dartmouth residents who would like to obtain a transfer station permit, or a day pass, may call the Dartmouth DPW at (508) 999-0740.
Remember, boat wrap is only recyclable through drop-off programs. Plastic bags and plastic wraps do not belong in recycling carts. That type of material wraps around equipment at sorting facilities causing sorting to grind to a halt while people work through the challenging task of removing plastic bags and wrap.
For more information, contact the Refuse District’s recycling office by phone at (774) 503-0254 or by email at Marissa@gnbrrmdistrict.org.
