Clean Ships, Clean Ports, Clean Oceans Controlling Garbage and Plastic Wastes at Sea (1995) / Chapter Skim
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, despite some poor experiences with units installed on its fleet, has been advised to equip its vessels with either trash compactors or appropriately designed incinerators (Art Anderson Associates, 1993~. The Coast Guard has purchased and installed a prototype unit meeting IMO standards on one of its cutters (Sara Ju, Coast Guard, personal communication to Marine Board staff, August 18, 1994~.
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suggest there is increasing public acceptance of and satisfaction with incineration as part of an integrated waste management strategy. The committee did not find any studies on this issue conducted independent of industry or groups opposed to incineration.
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Those studies assessed the effects of dumping incinerator ash into landfills by focusing on the leachate expected to seep into the nearby marine environment. Results indicated no demonstrable increase in the concentration of metals in the water column (Knap et al., 1992; Hjelmar, 1993~.
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