Separate your trash: food items, paper, rags, metal, crockery and plastic.
Step2 If operating within three miles of shore, the only trash a boater can toss overboard is fresh fish or fish parts, dishwater or graywater. Dishwater is the water left over after cleaning dished, provided it does not have food suspended in the water. Graywater is water left over water from bathing but does not include toilet water.
Step3 Put all other garbage into plastic bags and stow them below. Dispose of when returning to dock.
Step4 From 3 to 12 miles offshore, boaters must grind their trash to less than one inch, including food, crockery, rags, glass, metal and paper. This can go overboard. However, plastic and packing materials remain forbidden.
Step5 From 12 to 25 miles offshore, packing materials and plastic is forbidden.
Step6More than 25 miles and the ban on plastic remains.