Cruise Ship Trash Dumping

According to the Environmental Protection Agency in the course of one day the average cruise ship produces.

Cruise ship trash dumping. Cruise ships like Symphony have a designated waste and recycling center. Carnival Cruise ships dumped over 500000 gallons of sewage into the ocean and the US wants to ban them from docking. 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.

The apparent MSC Cruises garbage dumping saga continues due to recent videos showing MSC crew members dumping garbage. 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. Dumping is allowed by the International Maritime Organization which recognizes that raw sewage in the ocean can create a health hazard And according to Oceana cruise ships dont need to have permits to dump and dont need to report the amount of sewage they dump.

Glass cardboard plastic and metal. Waste water is the second biggest part of onboard waste. Cruise ships dumped more than 3 million pounds of trash in Juneau last year.

Princess Cruises was fined 40 million in 2016 for illegal dumping and Carnival got hit with a 20 million fine in 2019 for disposing of plastic waste in the ocean. More than 130 US gallons 490 L of hazardous wastes. 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.

The view from the top of Juneaus landfill in November 2019. There are separate teams to deal with each incoming recyclable. One vessel in an EPA study produced.

The passengers and crew aboard the biggest ships can produce 210000 gallons of sewage and almost five times as much graywaterfrom sinks showers laundry and so onin a single week. Ships can hold their sewage until returning to shore. Later on most of the violations were ruled to be accidental and were allegedly declared by the company.