How Do Cruise Ships Handle Sewage

Posted February 24 2006. Environmental Protection Agency EPA in an effort to force the federal agency to regulate sewage discharges from cruise ships and other vessels in US. Waste water is the second biggest part of onboard waste.

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This water is pumped into the sea.

How do cruise ships handle sewage. Every ship has its own environment officer and crew are responsible for their own recycling. There are currently 646 crew members quarantined on the ship Princess Cruises says. Cruise ships like Symphony have a designated waste and recycling center.

Plastic goes through this massive compactor. There are separate teams to deal with each incoming recyclable. As HERKIMER noted the sewage is treated on board.

The aeration chamber cleans the waste. But beyond that point its essentially a. On some cruise ships especially many of those that travel in Alaskan waters sewage is treated using Advanced Wastewater Treatment AWT systems that generally provide improved screening treatment disinfection and sludge processing as compared with traditional MSDs marine sanitation devices.

Law allows cruise ships to dump raw sewage in the ocean once a ship is more than three miles off US. Here the waste is filtered before it enters an aeration chamber. Even with aeration systems designed to reduce the amount of water coming out of bathroom taps and shower heads the average ship will.

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. Glass cardboard plastic and metal. Green brown and white.

At present the cruise lines have a few options for dealing with waste. It contains a set of regulations prohibiting sewage discharge from ships unless via an approved sewage treatment plant via a comminuting and disinfecting unit CDU at. Yesterday the Friends of the Earth FOE filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington DC.