Marine Flares— “It’s Not the Future.”

When you buy a big new piece of furniture, often the manufacturer will come and pick up your old piece—this process makes sense to us. However, when you buy pyrotechnic marine flares, and they expire, there is no order of operations for safe and proper disposal. Community events are held sometimes, but that isn’t a guarantee that everyone attends and drops off expired flares. The coalition behind these events urges residents to stay alert for future temporary collection events and consider switching to reusable eVDSDs   The electronic flare is a direct replacement in the movement to remove all flares from recreational boats after the negative results of disposal and safety, in addition to the toxic nature of improper disposal. An estimated 174,000 outdated flares are generated yearly by California recreational vessels.   “There are billions and billions of flares that just pile up on boats that can’t go anywhere,” said Engineer and Coast Guard Auxiliary Division Captain, Capt. Hood. “I mean, you can’t dispose of these things, and when they find their way into the trash, which they do, they go to the landfill, and then they contaminate our groundwater with a compound called perchlorate. One single marine flare will contaminate 240,000 gallons...