Best Practice Advice
Sewage
- Use marina/shore facilities
whenever possible
- Use environmentally friendly
toilet cleaners on board
- Educate crew on the products
you use and procedures to follow
- Use recycled toilet paper as
this breaks down more quickly than regular paper
- Use your holding tank
- Check out the Pump Out
Directory for where to empty your holding tank
- Encourage your local
marina/harbour authority to install pump out facilities and find
out how to use them
- Educate your crew on board
and encourage them to follow The Green Blue’s Code of Conduct
Coastal specific Advice
- Use holding tanks or a
portable toilet if you regularly sail in poor tidal flushing areas
such as estuaries, inland waterways, inlets and crowded
anchorages
- Only empty holding tanks at
pump out stations or when more than 3 miles offshore in the open
sea where waste will be quickly diluted and dispersed by wave
action and currents
- When visiting new sites give
consideration to the environmental sensitivity of the area before
using your sea toilet
- Fit a holding tank in your
boat, it is law to have one in some European countries
Inland Specific Advice
- Find out the regulations of
the waterways you visit before leaving.
-
When using chemical toilets plan ahead where you will empty
these as they use toxic substances that only a few pump out
facilities will accept. Never empty own a drain, always dispose of
into an appropriate sewage system.
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