Check the directions on your package of shrink plastic, and heat according to those directions. Generally, it’s around 300 degrees F. Keep an eye on your pieces. The process goes fast.

In addition to using energy and chemicals in its process, the recycling of boat shrink wrap and other plastics involves yet more single-use plastic. The pay-as-you-throw bags are just one example.

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Last year, even as the number of Amazon orders grew, the e-commerce giant managed to shrink its plastic footprint. The amount of single-use plastic that it used in shipping dropped by 11.6% from ...

The biggest news of all, as far as the 42,500 industry representatives who visited the National Packaging Exposition were concerned, was the “think shrink” concept, in which a sheet of plastic ...

Anyone ever use those kits they sell to weatherproof windows that takes a blow dryer to shrink the plastic. I bought a kit once but never got around to installing it. Has anyone used one and know if ...

The upgraded shrink sleeves could go a long way toward increasing recycled content and save on masterbatch costs. They also would preserve the original brand and design identity of the bottle to ...

A $2.6 million grant from some of the nation's biggest companies will make Pottstown the first municipality to test recycling items like potato chip bags, candy pouches, plastic shrink wrap and ...