Section 7 Garbage
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Clasifications Register Guidance Information - Naval Survey Guidance for Steel Ships, January 2001 - Chapter 17 Pollution (Optional) - Section 7 Garbage

Section 7 Garbage

Parent topic: Chapter 17 Pollution (Optional)

7.1 General

7.1.1 The overboard discharging of waste material from ships is banned in certain areas and the Surveyor should inspect the ship to ensure that adequate storage areas are maintained on board to store galley and messroom waste (i.e. food and other consumables), packaging, paper, glass, metal, plastics, bottles, crockery and similar refuse.

7.1.2 There should be on board the means of reducing or grinding the garbage into particles that will pass through a mesh size no larger than 25 mm. The Surveyor is to check and verify that these means are fully operable.

7.1.3 Some ships may have the means of incinerating waste and in this case the Surveyor should check that the emissions from the incinerator do not exceed the allowable air pollutants.

7.1.4 In some ships there may be a compactor installed to compact all garbage into storable blocks for later disposal at a shore receiving plant. If such a compactor is on board, the Surveyor is to check that it is in good working order, that adequate and safe storage is available on board the ship, and that means of segregating the garbage into different types of material are in place.

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