PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM GARBAGE

Description of handling of garbage.

3.References

* Annex V of MARPOL 73/78

* Guidelines for the implementation of Annex V of MARPOL 73/78

* Regulations on Protection of the Coastal Seas' Waters from Pollution, 1984 (territorial seas and inland waters of the former USSR).

4.Definitions

"Garbage" -means all kinds of victual, domestic and operational waste excluding fresh fish and parts of thereof, generated during the normal operation of the ship and liable to be disposed of continuously or periodically except those substances which are defined or listed in other Annexes of MARPOL 73/78.

5.Actions

* Chief-officer is responsible for the control of garbage storage and disposal through cooperation of all departments of the ship.

* In officers and crew mess should be posted a scheme of garbage disposal .

* Garbage must be separated and collected accordingly to the following categories:

Category 1 Plastics (synthetic ropes, fishing nets, cans, bags)

Category 2 Floating dunnage, lining or packing materials

Category3 Ground paper products, rags, glass, metal, bottles, crockery, etc. ( if available)

Category 4 Paper products, rags, glass, metal, bottles, crockery, etc.

Category 5 Food waste

Category 6 Incinerator ash (if available).

* Officers in charge from deck, technical departments and steward give the information on garbage to the Chief-Officer.

* Chief-Officer controls the filling up of garbage containers.

* Chief-Officer makes entries in Garbage Discharges Record Book when garbage is discharged into the sea or disposed to the shore facilities.

* When garbage is disposed ashore demand a receipt.

* Every completed page of Garbage Discharges Record Book must be counter'signed by the master.

* Garbage Discharges Record Book shall be preserved for a period of two years after the last entry is made on the record. After this term Garbage Discharges Record Book should be passed on to the Company's archives.

* The receipts or certificates must be kept onboard the ship with the Garbage Discharges Record Book for two years.

* All the crew members are to be informed of the following:

- plastics discharge into the sea is prohibited,

-trading in the territorial seas and inland waters of the former USSR, the discharge of all types of garbage is prohibited,

-trading within a special area garbage discharge into the sea in prohibited,except food waste, the last one shall be disposed into the sea as far as practicable from land, but not less than 12 nautical miles from the nearest land.

* Before entering the area, where garbage disposal is prohibited, all garbage containers shall be emptied and prepared for garbage collection.

*The special areas are:

the Mediterranean sea area,

the Baltic sea area,

the Black sea area,

the Red sea area,

the "Gulfs area",

the North sea area,

the Antarctic area,

Wider Caribbean Region, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea.

* The storage of food waste onboard in containers is allowed no long than two days.

* When garbage is mixed with other discharges having different disposal requirements the more stringent requirements shall apply.

Oily rags, rust and other materials contaminated with oil, fuel or lubricants shall be collected/stored separately from the other garbage, disposed to shore facilities or incinerated onboard as appropriate. Entries on this fact shall be made in Oil Record Book Part I under the code "I".