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Clean Ships, Clean Ports, Clean Oceans Controlling Garbage and Plastic Wastes at Sea (1995) / Chapter Skim
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... port reception facilities, Coast Guard boarding officers often "find no trace of garbage, separated plastics, or incinerated ash on ships that doubtlessly generate large quantities of garbage" (Federal
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... External constraints include the vastness of the oceans, which makes comprehensive federal surveillance impossible; the difficulty of obtaining first-hand accounts from witnesses; the lack of follow-up prosecution of foreign-flag vessels by flag states; and economic disincentives, in that large penalties for violations are offset by the perceived low risk of detection (Eastern Research Group, 1992~. Internal limitations include the low priority assigned to the problem of shipborne wastes; the complexity of administrative procedures for proceeding against violators; and shortcomings of Coast Guard training with regard to international shipping (Eastern Research Group, 1992~.
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