Cruise Ships Throw Garbage Overboard

But two-fifths of the 167 cruise ships plying the oceans still use 35-year-old waste treatment technology says Friends of the Earth.

Cruise ships throw garbage overboard. Garbage discharge regulations do not apply when the discharge of garbage from a ship was a necessary action for the purpose of securing the safety of a ship and those on board or saving life at sea. As a general rule of thumb outside 12NM from shore dumping of the categories of waste as stated by Oconnel is allowed given that they have the correct particle size to ensure bio breakdown. But throwing garbage purposefully overboard is basically unforgivable.

If that cruise ship is within three miles of a US. Sadly many ports where cruise ships call are still dumping garbage and untreated sewage directly into our oceans. Relatedly if your cruise ship is one with an open atrium please refrain from throwing items from one deck to another.

The shipping company Aida Cruises Ports of Stockholm and the Cruise Line International Association CLIA show how the wastewater is handled and purified on. 21000 gallons of human sewage one ton of solid waste garbage 170000 gallons of wastewater from showers sinks and laundry 6400 gallons of oily bilge water from the massive engines 25 pounds of batteries fluorescent lights medical. In such cases an entry should be made in the Garbage Record Book or in the ships official log-book for ships of less than 400 gross tonnage.

And though many US. Things will happen of course. In the mid-1970s the National Academy of Sciences reported that around 14 billion pounds of trash were dumped into the oceans each year by ships and boats.

As recently as 40 years ago it was acceptable to throw trash overboard but since then new rules have limited garbage releases in an ongoing effort to reduce their impacts on marine environments. Boats and ships have thrown garbage overboard for thousands of year. Newly released undercover videos appear to show a cruise ship employee casually tossing bags of garbage straight into the ocean.

Shoreline the sewage must be treated but if they are outside of three miles they can dump raw untreated sewage into the. Department of Justice ordered Carnival to pay a 20 million criminal penalty for dumping plastic and other waste overboard and said it. Of these cruise ships.