Cruise Ship Trash Dumping

One vessel in an EPA study produced.

Cruise ship trash dumping. The apparent MSC Cruises garbage dumping saga continues due to recent videos showing MSC crew members dumping garbage. The ships waste incineration room is manned twenty four hours a day by crew members who differentiate glass based on its color. Glass cardboard plastic and metal.

Garbage and pallets stored on the MSC Magnifica. Almost anything but. During a typical one-week voyage a large cruise ship with 3000 passengers and crew is estimated to generate 210000 US gallons 790000 L of sewage.

From 1993 to 1998 cruise ships were involved in 87 confirmed cases of illegal discharges of oil garbage and hazardous wastes into US waters and have paid more than 30 million in fines. More than 130 US gallons 490 L of hazardous wastes. 1 million US gallons 3800 m 3 of graywater wastewater from sinks showers and laundries.

Later on most of the violations were ruled to be accidental and were allegedly declared by the company. Some cruise lines press the food waste in a giant trash compactor dry it and then burn it to produce hot water for your shower. Green brown and white.

The dumping of waste at sea is controlled by the six annexes of the MARPOL convention to which most nations are signatories. Most of that waste is leftover food which is mixed with water pulped in a grinding machine and then usually pumped into the sea. Waste water is the second biggest part of onboard waste.

The 6600 passengers on board the worlds largest cruise ship produce a lot of trash. Cruise ships dumped more than 3 million pounds of trash in Juneau last year. Some of these cases involved multiple incidents of illegal dumping that numbered in.