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Clean Ships, Clean Ports, Clean Oceans Controlling Garbage and Plastic Wastes at Sea (1995) / Chapter Skim
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... Organizational changes are possible in all phases identified in the hazard evolution model for vessel garbage, but particularly "upstream," such as in modifying seafarers' behaviors, preventing initiating events, and blocking the discharge of garbage into the sea. A supportive organizational culture can make it easier to introduce new operating practices through measures such as restricting the distribution of supplies (Gallop, undated)
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... Objectives could include stimulating recognition and modification of behaviors that result in garbage being carried or generated on board vessels or disposed of improperly. If mariners were made aware of the ways in which marine organisms are exposed to garbage and the impact of the hazard, then they might recognize the need to modify their behaviors "upstream" in the hazard evolution model.
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  • vessel garbage
  • waste management
  • hazard evolution
  • garbage disposal
  • marine plastic

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  • integrated waste


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