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Cruise ships use Caribbean Sea as dump for solid waste Environmentalists say debris dumped in the ocean can entangle sea creatures, damage water quality and alter ecosystems. cruise ship 88 248 (photo credit: ) Kilometers from shore in the open Caribbean Sea, cruise ships are dumping ground-u...
Do cruise ships dump their waste in the ocean? U.S. law allows cruise ships to dump raw sewage in the ocean once a ship is more than three miles off U.S. shores. Ships can dump treated sewage anywhere in the ocean except in Alaskan waters, where companies must comply with higher stat...
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Classified as Blackwater, cruise ships deposit around 210,000 gallons of human sewage into the ocean during a week’s voyage. Sewage includes waste from the toilets and the health facilities on the cruise ship. Such wastewater is rich in bacteria and algae, adversely affecting the oceanic life-...
when the cruise industry was in its infancy, passengers onboard leisure vessels hit golf balls with no pin in sight, just for the fun of it. However, it was in 1990 that the International Maritime Organisation barred the dumping of plastic waste into oceans and seas, including the golf ball...
12. Environmental threats can be considered in the same way. For example, most instances of water pollution, air pollution, and illegal waste dumping are essentially local in nature. Problems like acid rain, the contam 36、ination of under-ground aquifers, and large oil spills are fundamentally...
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Cruise shipsare often found flushing their enormous amount of sewage and food waste and oily bilge water as a suspension of insoluble particles, into the ocean. In 2008, an EPA report, on cruise ship pollution discharge, stated that these decaying wastes andocean dumpingcreate acid in the water...