Clean Ships, Clean Ports, Clean Oceans: Controlling Garbage and Plastic Wastes at Sea (1995)
Chapter: Intelligence
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Hazard Evolution Model |
Breakdown in Compliance |
Discharge of Garbage into Sea |
Exposure to Discharged Garbage |
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Intervention Model |
Prevent Breakdown in Compliance |
Block Discharge of Garbage into Sea |
Block Exposure to Discharged Garbage |
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Regulatory |
Discourage violations through peer pressure and peer enforcement of rules for on-board activities. The "3-day/20-day" rule for holding plastics reduces amount discharged overboard. |
Establish and enforce internal penalties for violations. |
Develop in-service guidelines and directives. Require internal records of legal discharges at sea. Keep records of garbage transactions. |
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Economic (Market Forces) |
Make shoreside disposal readily available at both military and commercial ports. Return monies from recycling to vessel crew for their discretionary use. |
Explore marketing of metal wastes now collected and separated. Recycle plastics in commercial market (to strengthen market). Encourage on-board procedures to limit legal overboard discharges and improve centralized waste management. |
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Passenger Cruise Ships and Their Itinerary Ports
Intelligence
Coast Guard and APHIS inspectors board passenger cruise ships, but, as is the case with cargo vessels, they do not collect data that would be useful in Annex V implementation. Such data might be collected if the Congress adopts proposed MPPRCA amendments that would allow requirements for garbage logs to be extended to foreign-flag vessels. In the meantime, general information about
