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1 INTRODUCTION
Pages 8-12

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... The largest combat ships are the aircraft carriers and the amphibious assault ships. Crew sizes are quite large, 5,000 to 6,000, including air wing, for the carriers and about 3,000, including troops, for the amphibious assault ships.
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... For example, amphibious support ships have extensive medical facilities to handle injured troops and therefore generate quantities of medical waste. Repair ships tend to generate wastes similar to those from industrial plants.
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... Based on successful implementation in the cruise line industry, the committee has great enthusiasm for incinerator-based integrated systems that can manage Annex V wastes, food waste, black water, gray water, bilge water, and other waste streams. It is clear that the Navy problem is more complex than that of the cruise line industry, but the committee believes that some form of integrated system can be implemented in the intermediate term, say over the next 5 to 15 years.
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... The committee does not have specific Royal Navy plans for storage and transfer to shore facilities and dates for compliance. Note that the approach does not involve Royal Navy investment in apparatus development beyond issuance of performance specifications.
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... The two existing icebreakers and the polar icebreaker under construction (crew size about 200) will have a waste-handling system to `dispose of solid waste, plastics, and waste oil, consisting of an incinerator and trash compactor in one compartment and a pulper in another.
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Key Terms

  • surface ships
  • coast guard
  • crew sizes
  • marpol annex
  • food waste

  • waste materials
  • navy ships
  • support ships
  • waste management
  • line industry

  • shipboard pollution
  • navy compliance
  • waste treatment
  • plant managers
  • future regulations

  • navy plans
  • ship classes
  • cruise line
  • combat ships
  • assault ships

  • ocean discharge
  • environmental compliance
  • amphibious assault
  • including troops
  • including reliability

  • special mission
  • submarines fall
  • naval personnel
  • generate wastes
  • issues required


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