Cruise Ship Garbage

We went inside the secret crew-only deck of Royal.

Cruise ship garbage. Carnival ordered to pay 20M for dumping plastic and garbage overboard lawyer says cruise line tried to drown its deceit Published. Cruise Ship Discharge Assessment Report 2008. 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.

There are separate teams to deal with each incoming recyclable. 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. The placards must be written in the language of the ships crew to ensure proper understanding of the law regarding the garbage.

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 wastes and expired chemicals and 8500 plastic. More than 130 US gallons 490 L of hazardous. Glass cardboard plastic and metal.

Green brown and white. What laws apply to the waste stream. Research by Fremantle Ports showed that all of the waste from cruise ships visiting Fremantle had been going to deep burial and no recycling was occurring.

Almost anything but. 1 million US gallons 3800 m3 of graywater wastewater from sinks showers and laundries. 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.

An image supposedly showing a cruise ship dumping human waste into the ocean near a coastal city is frequently shared on social media. Thats even more than in 2018 when 830 tons or 18 million pounds of trash from cruise ships ended up in the landfill. Waste water is the second biggest part of onboard waste.