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Of course, then a cargo ship comes along ... 
In Response To: Recycling is second nature at home now. On the boat, it's not as easy. 
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() ... and dumps 500 containers in the sea, containing who knows what variety of toxins and pollutants, negating in a moment perhaps the lifetime efforts of all of us here to keep the seas clean. They ought to get fined big bucks or otherwise incentivized away from 'business as usual' losing containers over the side. I also wonder how long they take to sink and what kind of hazard to shipping occurs in the meantime.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/21/world/container-ship-loses-containers/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Messages In This Thread
- Recycling is second nature at home now. On the boat, it's not as easy.
- Similar to you, we separate it
- garbage
- Best I ever saw was in BVI.
- Nice to see another engine-heated garbage bin.
- nothing to recycle
- Those days, I hope, are coming to an end, Dan.
- Lets all throw it on an island
- I don't find your methods repugnant, I said a new generation does.
- Disagree about the aluminum. Even in salt water, I've seen aluminum cans 4 and 5 years old, still intact
- Cans must be on steroids.
- Agreed, furthermore...
- In some cases banning insecticides and fretilizers
- Agreed, furthermore...
- Cans must be on steroids.
- Lets all throw it on an island
- Those days, I hope, are coming to an end, Dan.
- In Nantucket (last time I was there)
- I keep my garbage on deck in a large
- I sail a quite small boat, with limited room for holding garbage. So I try to get rid of
- Of course, then a cargo ship comes along ...
