Plastic Recycling Program Aims to Cleans Up V.I.’s Beaches

Instead of sending plastics collected during beach cleanups to the territory’s nearly full landfills, a new program will recycle them and see to it that they become something new – in this case, a shampoo bottle. Working in partnership with the recycling company TerraCycle and the consumer goods producer Proctor & Gamble, the Department of Planning and Natural Resources’ Division of Coastal Zone Management is working to collect thousands of pounds of beach plastic to fill one 40-foot container.