Cruise Ships Bad For Environment

Sewage and rubbish being dumped air and water being polluted invasive species being introduced by pumping ballast water.

Cruise ships bad for environment. Look below the surface and you come across all sorts of horror stories. The EU based non-profit Transport and Environment which advocates for cleaner means of transportation in Europe reports that pollution from the shipping industry causes about 50000 premature deaths and costs over 58 billion per year. Cruise ships are bad for the air and the ocean.

Cruise ships also devastate oceans when they dump raw sewage from their passengers. For decades the cruise industrys business practices have put the environment climate and public health of coastal communities passengers crew and coastal and marine ecosystems at risk. Marine mammals fish sea turtles and birds can be injured or killed from entanglement with plastics and other solid waste that may be released or disposed off of cruise ships.

Cruise ships are also responsible for significant air pollution from the dirty fuel they burn which can lead to serious human health problems especially in port communities. With outdated regulations and uneven cleanup efforts there may be rough seas ahead for the industry and the environment. In fact every persons carbon.

Emissions from cruise ship engines include nitrogen oxides sulfur. As the cruise industry expands so too does its environmental footprint. With large cruise ships carrying several thousand passengers the amount of waste generated in a day can be massive.

On average each cruise ship passenger generates at least two pounds of non-hazardous solid waste per day. Ship emits 117 pounds of CO2. The impact of this on marine life is not only disgusting it is catastrophic.

For a large cruise ship about 8 tons of solid waste are generated during a one-week cruise. In addition most governments have refused to enact strong regulations for the cruise industry ignored the ongoing damage the industry does to communities. Thats why weve begun a series of information films to answer some basic questio.