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Clean Ships, Clean Ports, Clean Oceans Controlling Garbage and Plastic Wastes at Sea (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 229-230

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... Objective: Provide comprehensive vessel garbage management system, including adequate port reception facilities Numerous steps can and should be taken to improve the garbage management system for cargo ships. Improvements are needed in three general areas: monitoring of on-board garbage handling by both U.S.-flag and foreign-flag ships; port reception facilities; and handling of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
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... To help improve the port side of the vessel garbage management system, state agencies should require adequate reception facilities as a condition of issuing permits to ports and should assure that garbage disposal is integrated with regional ISWMS. The Coast Guard should require a port to have the appropriate state permits as a condition of granting a Certificate of Adequacy (COA)
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Key Terms

  • reception facilities
  • coast guard
  • port reception
  • vessel garbage
  • waste management

  • garbage handling
  • garbage management
  • vessel operators
  • improve annex
  • recyclable materials

  • garbage disposal
  • vessel operator
  • cargo ships
  • treatment technologies
  • comprehensive vessel

  • including adequate
  • adequate port
  • merchant mariners
  • adequate reception
  • port state


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