Doing research for tomorrows show about the exploding $40B/year cruise industry. 8500 plastic bottles are thrown away on the average ship over the course of one day! SF just opened a $100M new cruise ship terminal. Former NYT correspondent Elizabeth Becker will be on the show: [In between these ports of call, garbage left behind by cruise ships is polluting the ocean. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in the course of one day the average cruise ship produces: 21,000 gallons of human sewage; one ton of solid waste garbage; 170,000 gallons of wastewater from showers, sinks, and laundry; 6,400 gallons of oily bilge water from the massive engines; 25 pounds of batteries, fluorescent lights, medical wastes and expired chemicals; and 8,500 plastic bottles. Multiply this by those 400 ships cruising year-round, and you have a sense of the magnitude of the problem. But there are no accurate studies of how well that waste is disposed of because the ships are not required to follow any state or national laws once in international waters.]
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:45:59 +0000
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