Ohio company initiates huge recycling project CLEVELAND, OH (WOUB) - Nearly 1.1 million pounds of shrink-wrap has been recycled through a state-launched program involving a Washington County company.

The program collects the blue plastic used to keep boats safe from the winter weather.

The Ohio Clean Marinas Program started in 2006 turns the plastic discarded each spring into plastic blocks used as spacers in highway guardrails.

Mondo Polymer Technologies of Reno, Ohio, collects the plastic from marinas and uses it to make the guardrail blocks. It expanded the effort into Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland in 2008.

Roughly 120 Ohio marinas participate in the free program, which saves them hundreds of dollars a year in trash hauling costs each year.

The wrapping collected over the past four years could cover the state's 312-mile Lake Erie shoreline with a 19 1/2-foot-wide strip of plastic.

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