Best Practice Advice
Rubbish
- Prevent plastic bags, drinks
cans and loose items from blowing overboard. Ban loose item such as
sandwich wrappings or yokes on 6 packs from coming up on deck
- If litter does find its way
over board, then use the opportunity to practice your man over
board procedure
- Set an example to your crew
by not throwing any litter (including biodegradable waste)
overboard
- Cigarette ends can last up
to 5 years and can cause birds to starve if swallowed. Provide butt
boxes for stub ends
- Remove as much excess
packaging as you can before you go out on the boat
- Recycle as much waste on board as possible, with the increasing
amount of mixed recycling facilities now available, you need only
two bins on board
- Ask your marina to provide
recycling facilities. Point out that recycled waste can be up to
50% cheaper to dispose of than waste going to landfill
- Invest in biodegradable
rubbish bags. They break down in 12 to 18 months rather than up to
500 years
- Where possible reuse items
such as plastic bottles and boxes
- Think about recycling old
equipment such as sails, rope and electronic equipment
- Don’t contaminate general
waste by throwing hazardous waste items isuch as paint tins, oily
rags and antifoul scrapings in the wrong container.
- Keep oils and other food
waste on board and dispose of with non recyclable rubbish
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