Do Cruise Ships Throw Trash Overboard

Today the Huffington Post covered the story we posted 10 days ago about MSC Cruises crew members throwing black bags overboard from the MSC Magnifica cruise ship into the water.

Do cruise ships throw trash overboard. But then most of them use common sense and treat it first before throwing overboard. Relatedly if your cruise ship is one with an open atrium please refrain from throwing items from one deck to another. It is only in the last several decades that even western countries stopped doing it.

In the global cruise industry one or two people are statistically likely to fall overboard from a cruise ship each month and somewhere between 17 and 25 are rescued according to Kleins. Find a random person while in port then give them your name and home address. Yes most cruise lines have been fined however the gross violations were years back.

MSC says there is nothing new shown in the photos and three videos we posted because they are just a different angle of an incident reported by a passenger last December. All the food waste is churned and diluted with water and thrown overboard. In a long history of plastic waste and oil dumping Carnival Corporation the largest cruise company in the world admitted its subsidiary dumped plastic overboard.

Glass cardboard plastic and metal. But it happens. In the mid-1970s the National Academy of Sciences reported that around 14 billion pounds of trash were dumped into the oceans each year by ships and boats.

It become fish food or simply disintegrates. In an emailed statement to HuffPost MSC Cruises said that these videos are merely another angle of an incident reported last year in Brazilian media and also covered by Jim Walker. Why Its Illegal Now.

The major source of perishable food waste is from leftovers at meal times and appropriate disposal is a cause for concern among environmentally conscious passengers and crew on todays mega-ships. There are separate teams to deal with each incoming recyclable. Boats and ships have thrown garbage overboard for thousands of year.