Cruise Ship Dumping Trash

By Jim Walker on August 9 2012.

Cruise ship dumping trash. One popular iteration with more than 30000 shares was posted. An image supposedly showing a cruise ship dumping human waste into the ocean near a coastal city is frequently shared on social media. In an industry thats been long scrutinized for poor waste practices cruise lines are now building ships that can.

Carnival Cruise Lines Hit With 20 Million Penalty For Environmental Crimes The company has a long history of dumping plastic trash and oily waste from its ships with violations dating back to 1993. That concerns some in Juneau since the landfill is expected. Juneaus landfill managers say it took over 33 million pounds of trash from cruise ships in 2019 up from 18 million pounds in 2018.

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. A Royal Caribbean cruise ship sails up the Hudson River in New York City Gary HershornGetty Images. Indeed in 2016 Princess Cruises was fined a record 32 million for the illegal dumping of oil-contaminated waste from the Caribbean Princess cruise ship.

We went inside the secret crew-only deck of Royal Caribbeans Symphony. Some of these cases involved multiple incidents of illegal dumping that numbered in the hundreds over the six-year period. It is perfectly legal for cruise ships to dump treated sewage in the ocean as long as they are three miles offshore.

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. A 2011 study of cruise ship discharge in the Caribbean concluded that high risks to human and ecological health accompanies both disposal of waste near land and in shallow waters. 1 million US gallons 3800 m 3 of graywater wastewater from sinks showers and laundries.

In one of the first articles published in the cruise industrys new blog entitled Sailing with Respect the cruise lines pitched themselves as leaders of the marine environment. The dumping of waste at sea is controlled by the six annexes of the MARPOL convention to which most nations are signatories. As reported by Miami Herald between April 2017 and April 2018 the inspectors recorded over 800 violations from all of Carnivals ships which included dumping 500000 gallons of sewage and 12 gallons of oil into the Bahamian waters.