Cruise Ship Trash Dumping

The 40000000 fine levied against Princess Cruises last week raises the issue of what cruise executives knew about the illegal dumping of oil-contaminated waste from the Caribbean Princess cruise ship and the other illegal practices which took place on the Star Princess Grand Princess Coral Princess and Golden Princess.

Cruise ship trash dumping. 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. Garbage and pallets stored on the MSC Magnifica. Cruise ships dumped more than 3 million pounds of trash in Juneau last year.

1 million US gallons 3800 m 3 of graywater wastewater from sinks showers and laundries. Glass cardboard plastic and metal. 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 6600 passengers on board the worlds largest cruise ship produce a lot of trash. The cruise operator is currently on a five year probation following a. Almost anything but.

The EPA estimates that single 3000-person cruise ship pumps 150000 gallons of sewageabout 10 backyard swimming pools worthinto the ocean per week. 8 tons of solid. The dumping of waste at sea is controlled by the six annexes of the MARPOL convention to which most nations are signatories.

Waste water is the second biggest part of onboard waste. 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. There are separate teams to deal with each incoming recyclable.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency in the course of one day the average cruise ship produces. Some of these cases involved multiple incidents of illegal dumping that numbered in. We went inside the secret crew-only deck of Royal Caribbeans Symphony.