We need to think about whether cruise ships are good for the environment!
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Cruise ships are truly massive. They have a huge amount of staff and hold many tourists. They therefore carry and produce phenomenal amounts of waste and then what do they do with it?
Well many of them do dispose of their waste when they get back to port, sensibly and cleanly. There have been a few incidents where the Cruise ship has dumped it’s waste in the ocean. They simply cannot contain all of the waste in the cruise ship and are forced to release it into the open water. This “dumping” is unacceptable if we want to keep the oceans in clean areas like the Caribbean clean. Around 2003 these ships were creating about thirty thousand gallons of sewage each day. There is not another new study to show the increase of this today.
However this isn’t the main problem. It is difficult to say what the worst problem is that these cruise liners produce, bu they create a massive amount or air pollution. The Engines that these beast like machines use, create immense amounts of pollution damaging everything around them. Over a 10 year period from 1991 to 2001 the amount of cruises bought just in the UK rose from 193,000 to 776,000. There is not telling how many people will be going on cruises in the next ten years. St Lucia holidays have become very popular, the St Lucian government has even banned some cruise liners from entering its waters.
One thing is for sure though, either we find a new way to power these Cruise ships or we are going to have to forget about them altogether. If you’re thinking of going on Barbados holidays or having weddings abroad, then think quickly before the Caribbean is just another victim of pollution. How long will it be before we cant visit the Caribbean just because it has been so badly damaged.
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