We at Pangaea have come up with an inventive way to do our best to
"green" your cruise. Unlike cars, trains, hotel rooms, and airplanes,
it is very difficult to measure carbon emissions emitted from an
average cruise ship. In addition, carbon emissions are not even the
worst pollutant to worry about from this type of travel. Consider the
following:
On average, each cruise ship carries 3,000 people and produces as much
sewage and waste as a mid-sized city. Incredibly, the most common
practice of cruise ships is to dump waste at sea. While they are not
supposed to release raw sewage or other solid waste into state waters
(three nautical miles from shore), ocean currents can easily return
discharged sewage, polluted waters and garbage to our shores.
All cruise ships generate the following types of waste:
"Gray water" from sinks, showers, laundries and galleys
Sewage or "black water" from toilets
Oily bilge water
Hazardous wastes (including perchloroethylene from drycleaning, photo-processing wastes, paint waste, solvents, print shop wastes,fluorescent light bulbs, and batteries)
A 3,000-passenger cruise ship generates the following amounts of waste
on a typical one-week voyage:
1 million gallons of "gray water"
210,000 gallons of sewage
25,000 gallons of oily bilge water
Over 100 gallons of hazardous or toxic waste
50 tons of garbage and solid waste
Diesel exhaust emissions equivalent to thousands of automobiles
(Sources: Surfrider Foundation; and www.kahea.org)
Let us green your cruise, for free! By allowing us to book your
cruise, we will estimate the emissions from your trip, offset them,
and make a donation to one of the three organizations we work with
helping to protect our oceans. It won't cost you a cent more to let us
book your cruise, and we can do our best to protect the environments
you're traveling to!
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