1. Kari Kouhia 23.4.2013
Waste management planning with
regard to cruise tourism
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2. Main subjects are
• What is shipboard waste?
• Situation on the Globe
• How the organisations and companies are govern
the waste management?
• Guidelines how to plan shipboard waste
management
• Example of waste handling in the Port of Helsinki.
• References
• Regulations, for example ANNEX V,24,25
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3. Main goals are
• Give a picture of shipboard waste management
and its planning
• Show the complexity of waste management
• Give the knowledge how to approach the subject
• Wake environmental awareness
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4. Shipboard
waste and
polution types
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5. In this case these Green
House Gases will be
mainly outlined as well
as Particulate Matter.
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6. Blackwater (sewage), from toilets and
urinals
Graywater from laundry facilities,
sinks, showers and kitchens Tähän kuva tai kaavio
Bilgewater is the liquid that
accumulates in low ares of a ship from
leaks and condensation.
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7. Ballast Water
What is ballast?
Ballast is defined as any solid or liquid that is
brought on board a vessel to increase the
draft, change the trim, regulate the stability or
to maintain stress loads within acceptable
limits.
http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/marinesafety/oep-
environment-ballastwater-defined-249.htm
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8. Ballast Water has become an environmental
issue because of its ability to transfer species
of plant and animals around the World.
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9. Solid Waste
for example non-recyclable plastics,
recyclable material such as glass, metal,
paper, and wood garbages that are hazard to
crew or ship.
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10. Anti-fouling paints are used to coat the
bottoms of ships to prevent sealife such as
algae and molluscs attaching themselves to
the hull – thereby slowing down the ship and
increasing fuel consumption.
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11. Anti-fouling
These compounds slowly "leach" into the sea
water, killing barnacles and other marine life
that have attached to the ship. But the studies
have shown that these compounds persist in
the water, killing sealife, harming the
environment.
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12. Anti-fouling
One of the most effective anti-fouling paints
contains the organotin tributylin (TBT), which
has been proven to cause deformations in
oysters and sex changes in whelks.
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13. Shipboard noise
Noise is problem on board and it will damage
sea life as well.
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14. In the end the whole
ship will be huge
piece of waste!
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15. Situation on the Globe
Increasing ability of consuming
The Generation of electrisity in Europe was in 2010
four times as large as in 1975.
In the same time the population has increased about
10% in Europe.
In the World population has increased 75% at same
period. Living standard will be multiply in developing
countries as it did in Europe.
The advancement will propably happed in shorter
period of time in developing countries than in Europe
because of faster technical implementation.
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16. Situation on the Globe
In the aspect of environtment technical
developing, increasing use of energy and
increasing population means increasing pressure
towards environment.
The cruise industry represents only 0.2 percent of
all ocean-going vessels worldwide. Reference:
http://www.cruisecritic.com/articles.cfm?ID=528
This is situation on the Earth where the cruise
turism companies are operating.
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17. Globe A
• Globe: Sea Currents
• Perpetual Osean (jatkuva, ikuinen)
• Is the cruise turism going to increase or decrease?
• Why it is increasing or decreasing?
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18. The definition of sustainability from
”Ergün”
Sustainable(adj)
able to continue over a period of time
causing little or no damage to the environment
and therefore able to continue for a long time
(Cambridge dictionary)
This is our goal. How to get there?
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19. How the organisations and companies are govern the
waste management?
Waste management instruments are:
•International treaties as
o UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF
THE SEA, UNCLOS
o International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution
from Ships (MARPOL) from IMO/UN – the International
Maritime Organization
•EC Directives as 32000L0059 Directive 2000/59/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2000 on
port reception facilities for ship-generated waste and cargo
residues - Commission declaration
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20. How the organisations and companies are govern the
waste management?
Waste management instruments are:
•Local treaties as The Helsinki Commission, or HELCOM, works
to protect the marine environment of the Baltic Sea from all
sources of pollution through intergovernmental co-operation
between Denmark, Estonia, the European Community, Finland,
Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden.
•National laws, for example special areas
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21. How the organisations and companies are govern the
waste management?
Waste management instruments are:
•Private associations as John Nurmisen säätiö (foundation)
•Certificates as Green Globe Certification from “Bori”
•Standards as ISO
•Best practicies
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22. How the organisations and companies are govern the
waste management?
Character of Waste management instruments are:
•recommendations
•guidelines for further directives and laws
•laws
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23. How the waste in managed in the real life?
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24. Important:
• On Wednesday Carla Sousa Bento will give you some guidelines of payrolls, how much does ship
cost and so on.
• Some remarks from presentation of Susana Garcia who was working on a vessel:
o 6/360 fulltime workers for taking care of recycling
o Very intensive work and team work, time to time they were working like ”grazy”
o Average salary of the workers was quite low
o Every one has many tasks
o Vessel is sailing about 50 of 52 weeks during the year
• What is the conclusion, is there easy money around?! Think that when you are doing your own
projects!!
• Keep your work consistent, big picture in balance (For example who many percent of the pages is
mission, vision, business plan, budget and so on.)
• Within these guidelines and remembering the name of IP you consider how much there is
sustainability in your work.
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25. The port of Helsinki
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26. To be solved
• Development is quit slow
• Waste disposal has been discharged into sea thousand of years, attitudes changes
slowly
• How harmonization of waste management rules? For example waste collection in
ports.
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27. References
• http://www.imo.org/ourwork/environment/pollutionprevention/garbage/Pages/Default.aspx
• http://www.globalgarbage.org/blog/index.php/2010/10/13/revised-marpol-annex-v-text-
approved
• http://www.imo.org/KnowledgeCentre/HowAndWhereToFindIMOInformation/IndexofIMOR
esolutions/Pages/Marine-Environment-Protection-Committee-%28MEPC%29.aspx
• http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/marinesafety/oep-environment-ballastwater-defined-249.htm
• http://www.imo.org/OurWork/Environment/Anti-foulingSystems/Pages/Default.aspx
• http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/closindx.htm
• http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0059:EN:HTML
• http://greenglobe.com/about/
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28. Guidelines how to plan shipboard waste management?
• Guidelines how to implement MARPOL ANNEX V is in
ANNEX 24 (March 2012)
• The ANNEX 24 is so massive (32 pages) that I do not
handle it here. I contains among other things table how
to handle different kind of shipboard waste and
procedure of waste handlind omboard.
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29. Guidelines how to plan shipboard waste management?
• The ANNEX 24, INDEX
o Garbage management;
o Management of cargo residues of solid bulk
cargoes;
o Training, education and information;
o Port reception facilities for garbage;
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30. Guidelines how to plan shipboard waste management?
• Guidelines how to develope garbage management plans
is in ANNEX 25 (March 2012)
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31. Guidelines how to plan shipboard waste management?
In 2011, IMO adopted amendments to MARPOL Annex V
which require that:
1.Every ship of 100 gross tonnage and above, and every ship
certified to carry 15 or more persons, and fixed or floating
platforms shall carry a garbage management plan;
2.every ship of 400 gross tonnage and above, and every ship
certified to carry 15 or more persons engaged in voyages to
ports or offshore terminals of another Party, and every fixed
or floating platform shall be provided with a Garbage Record
Book
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32. Guidelines how to plan shipboard waste management?
In 2011, IMO adopted amendments to MARPOL Annex V
which require that:
3.every ship of 12 metres or more in length overall, and fixed
or floating platforms shall display placards which notify the
crew and passengers of the ship's disposal requirements of
regulations 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the Annex as applicable.
These provisions are included in regulation 10 to the revised
MARPOL Annex V with an entry into force date of 1 January
2013.
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33. Guidelines how to plan shipboard waste management?
PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM GARBAGE (ANNEX 25)
1 reduction at source;
2 reusing or recycling;
3 onboard processing (treatment);
4 discharge into the sea in those limited situations where it is
permitted; and
5 discharge to a port reception facility.
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34. Guidelines how to plan shipboard waste management?
Procedures for collecting garbage (ANNEX 25)
Describe how garbage is to be handled between primary
collection and separation stations and other handling
methods relating to the following:
1 needs of reception facilities, taking into account possible
local recycling arrangements;
2 onboard processing and potential reuse of garbage aboard
the ship;
3 storage; and
4 discharge into the sea in those limited situations where it is
permitted.
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35. Guidelines how to plan shipboard waste management?
Procedures for processing garbage (ANNEX 25)
1 Identify personnel responsible for the operation of the
processing equipment.
2 Identify available processing devices and their
capacities.
3 Identify the locations of processing devices and
processing stations.
4 Identify the categories of garbage that are to be
processed by each of the available processing devices.
5 Describe how material that can be reused or recycled
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36. Guidelines how to plan shipboard waste management?
Procedures for processing garbage (ANNEX 25)
6 Describe processing procedures used for the
following:
1 needs of reception facilities, taking into account
available recycling
arrangements;
2 storage; and
3 discharge into the sea in those limited situations
where it is permitted.
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37. Guidelines how to plan shipboard waste management?
Procedures for processing garbage (ANNEX 25)
7 Describe the training or education programmes to
facilitate the processing of
garbage and reuse or recycling of material.
8 Identify standard operating procedures for the
operation and maintenance of the
equipment used to manage garbage. This may be
done by reference to documents available
on board.
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38. Guidelines how to plan shipboard waste management?
Procedures for storing garbage or reusable or recyclable
material (ANNEX 25)
Procedures for discharging of garbage (ANNEX 25)
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