How Much Pollution Do Cruise Ships Cause

Staggeringly if a report by the UKs Guardian newspaper is to be believed.

How much pollution do cruise ships cause. Cruise ships generate about 15 gallons of hazardous chemical waste every day according to environmental group Friends of the Earth. Yes the next huge cruise pollution cause is from sewage. Of the 77 vessels tested by.

As ships get bigger the pollution is getting worse. To give you an idea it emits about the same amount of sulfur dioxide as 36 MILLION cars. A 2014 study by the non-governmental environmental agency Friends of the Earth estimated that the entire industry dumps over 1 billion gallons of sewage yearly.

That year Barcelona experienced 32838 kg of SOx emissions from cruise ships while the total amount from all cars in the city only added up to 6812 kg by comparison. On a typical one-week voyage a cruise ship generates more than 50 tonnes of garbage and a million tonnes of grey waste water 210000 gallons of sewage and 35000 gallons of oil-contaminated water. So 30 cruise ships pollute as much as all the cars in the United Kingdom UK news in pictures.

It is estimated that the average cruise ship passenger creates 40-50 gallons of wastewater per day. But from January 2020 there will be a global implementation of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships which limits sulphur content in fuel for all ships to 05 per cent. The pollution caused by the fuel used by cruise ships as well as motorboats mixes with the air produces NO2 CO2 and SO2 which damage severely not only the natural environment and the health of living beings but also corrodes severely the works of art and the palaces of Venice.

Further the 15 largest ships in the world emit as much nitrogen oxide and sulphur oxide as the worlds 760 million cars. According to leading independent German pollution analyst Axel Friedrich a single large cruise ship will emit over five tonnes of NOX emissions and 450kg of ultra fine particles a. 210000 gallons of sewage.

Even while at dock cruise ships often run dirty diesel engines to provide electrical power to passengers and crew. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics a 3000-passenger cruise ship considered an average size some carry 5000 or more passengers generates the following amounts of waste on a typical one-week voyage. Cruise ships pollute the air we breathe Cruise ships are also responsible for significant air pollution from the dirty fuel they burn which can lead to serious human health problems especially in port communities.