What Do Cruise Ships Do With Their Trash
Royal Caribbeans Symphony of the Seas is a zero-landfill ship.
What do cruise ships do with their trash. We went inside the secret crew-only deck of Royal Caribbeans Symphony. Cruise ships the size of small cities ply the waters off our coasts producing and then dumping large amounts of sewage and other wastes into our oceans polluting our beaches contaminating our coral reefs and destroying our valuable marine ecology. In the report Cruise Ship Report Card 2012 recently published by the international environmental organization Friends of the Earth are compared among the 15 major cruise lines assessing their impact on the environment.
What goes in must come out The enormous amounts of food and drink consumed on cruise ships. Cruise ships are akin to floating cities providing many of the same services that small cities or towns provide to their citizens. Plastic can never be legally discharged into the sea so any plastic must be packaged and brought to a port for on land disposal or recycling.
Cruise ships can transport around 3000 people and these people generate about 30000 gallons of human waste water and produce seven tons of garbage and solid waste every day. Waste water is the second biggest part of onboard waste. Black water is the water filled with sewage that leaves the toilet.
Under the current Caribbean regulations ships can begin dumping garbage including metal glass and paper 3 miles from shore as long as it is ground to less than an inch. The 6600 passengers on board the worlds largest cruise ship produce a lot of trash. We went below deck to see how crews recycle burn food waste and purify water.
Shipboard waste is an increasing problem for the cruising sailor. As an industry we are extremely committed to protecting the waters and surrounding environments where we operate to preserve their natural beauty minimize impact on. Ad Enjoy private balcony swimming pool waterslide park VR experience and free buffet.
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