Do Cruise Ships Throw Trash Overboard

It become fish food or simply disintegrates.

Do cruise ships throw trash overboard. In that incident video filmed by a passenger above deck appeared to show bags of trash being flung off the ship and right into the ocean. The major source of perishable food waste is from leftovers at meal times and appropriate disposal is a cause for concern among environmentally conscious passengers and crew on todays mega-ships. Most of the items mentioned in.

Three miles from shore the cruise ships that flock to the Caribbean cross a boundary where the sea becomes a dump for metal glass and other waste that is flushed overboard. All ships have the capacity to retain dangerous debris on board until they reach a port. The ships waste incineration room is manned twenty four hours a day by crew members who differentiate glass based on its color.

Most of the plastic in the ocean comes from shipsboats much of that from fishing nets and garbage just. An average-sized cruise ship would house 3000 passengers and crew. Glass cardboard plastic and metal.

Things will happen of course. The end result is basically the same. Of these cruise ships.

In an emailed statement to HuffPost MSC Cruises said that these videos are merely another angle of an incident reported last year in Brazilian media and also covered by Jim Walker. But then most of them use common sense and treat it first before throwing overboard. According to environmental regulatory lead at Royal Caribbean International Nick Rose the idea that cruise lines go round dumping stuff in the ocean is just wrong.

Cruise lines have a legal obligation under the Safety of Life at Sea SOLAS and Coast Guard regulations to immediately undertake search and rescue operations when a passenger is observed going overboard. Now the cruise lines get fined if an onboard smoker throws a butt overboard. As a result all of those millions of passengers and crew members dining and defecating and showering on the oceans have left filthy discharges in their wake.