With the boating season fast approaching, the Ocean County Board of Commissioners has announced a new program to help residents properly dispose of old or used marine flares, such as red handheld, red meteor, parachute, orange smoke signal and floating orange smoke flares. A collection will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 6 at the Ocean County Training Center in Waretown.

Registration is required to secure one of the 600 available appointments, and each individual can drop off a maximum of 10 flares.