Effort recycles fishing line

The University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service aims to keep fishing line out of the environment with its fishing line recycling effort, Adopt-A-Bin.

Volunteers are needed to maintain fishing line recycling bins installed around the region by removing waste fishing line anglers place in the bins and sending it in for recycling. People may also build bins and install them with guidance from the extension service.

Fishing line is extremely harmful to wildlife, which can become tangled in discarded line. It is also harmful to the lower units of outboard motors and propellers.

Information is available at www.uaex.uada.edu/fishingline. For more details contact Meghan Post, [email protected].