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Clean Ships, Clean Ports, Clean Oceans Controlling Garbage and Plastic Wastes at Sea (1995) / Chapter Skim
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... This category of programs includes education to introduce vessel operators to Total Quality Management principles; meetings to improve coordination and share information among the federal agencies responsible for Annex V and quarantine inspections, and among individuals involved in on-board and shore-based garbage management; training for employers focusing on the benefits to a company's image accruing from environmental initiatives; efforts to disseminate information about the shipboard garbage treatment technologies developed by the Navy or the passenger cruise ship industry; and education of port operators and local government concerning the garbage disposal facilities they need to provide.
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  • garbage management
  • vessel operators
  • garbage treatment
  • garbage disposal
  • vessel operator

  • shipboard garbage
  • waste haulers
  • treatment technologies
  • information exchange
  • safety courses

  • exchange programs
  • commercial fishermen
  • passenger cruise
  • cruise ship
  • boating safety


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