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CAPITOL HILL OCEANS WEEK Strategies for Success: Managing for the Future

CAPITOL HILL OCEANS WEEK Strategies for Success: Managing for the Future. June 9, 2004. ICCL Member Lines. Cruise Industry Waste Management Practices and Procedures. Preserving the marine environment and oceans . Aggressive programs of waste management control

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CAPITOL HILL OCEANS WEEK Strategies for Success: Managing for the Future

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  1. CAPITOL HILL OCEANS WEEK Strategies for Success: Managing for the Future June 9, 2004

  2. ICCL Member Lines

  3. Cruise Industry Waste Management Practices and Procedures Preserving the marine environment and oceans . • Aggressive programs of waste management control • Waste Minimization through source reduction • Reuse and recycling • Waste stream management. • Identify and implement new technologies • Meet or exceed the stringent standards of international treaties and U.S. laws

  4. Industry Effort Focused on the Traditional High Volume Wastes • Garbage (Includes solid waste) • Graywater • Blackwater • Bilge and Oily Water • Oil Pollution Prevention • Hazardous Waste Management.

  5. ITEMS NEVER DISCHARGED INTO COASTAL OR OCEAN WATERS • Raw sewage • Plastics • Batteries • Medical waste, unused medicines • Un-ground food • Chemicals and other hazardous waste • Non food oils • Hazardous materials • Photo processing effluent containing hazardous waste • Dry cleaning fluids or waste • Printing cartridges

  6. ICCL’S WASTEWATER DISCHARGE POLICIES Adopted December 2001 4 MILES FROM SHORE (Speed greater than 6 knots) • Wastewater • graywater* • treated blackwater* • processed bilge water 12 MILES FROM SHORE • Ground food waste • Incinerated ash containing no hazardous materials or plastic residues in accordance with MARPOL *Unless treated by an AWP system

  7. Advanced Wastewater Purification Systems • Cruise lines are testing and installing wastewater purification systems that utilize advanced technologies. • AWP systems result in effluent discharges of a high quality and purity. • They meet or surpass standards for secondary and tertiary effluents and reclaimed water.

  8. “The Ocean Conservation and Tourism Alliance” Conservation International and The International Council of Cruise Lines

  9. Conservation International Conservation International protects the Earth’s living heritage, our global biodiversity, and demonstrates that human societies and nature can live harmoniously

  10. Strategic Approach to Conservation

  11. CI Core Strategies • Science • Set priorities, define outcomes, create conservation tools, and monitor results • Human welfare • Assess and reinforce the links between biodiversity and human welfare • Partnerships • Engage key partners and build capacity for sustainability

  12. CELB Strategy Industries Key industry groups adopt biodiversity guidelines Policies Governments create incentives for business to invest in conservation Places Industry leaders contribute to conservation outcomes in hotspots, wilderness areas & seascapes

  13. Key Industries Agriculture & fisheries Coffee, cocoa, soy, oil palm, fish, beef Forestry Wood and paper products Travel & leisure Cruise lines, hotels & resorts, tour operators Energy & mining Oil & gas, minerals

  14. OCTA Partnership Focus: • Best Practices for Wastewater Management • Establishing Destination Partnerships • Promoting Environmental Education • Promoting Vendor Education

  15. Priority Issues Initial priority is to focus on Wastewater Management • Establishing independent Science Panel – Chaired by Dr. Sylvia Earle • The Panel will make recommendations on standards and practices • Executive level commitment to implement recommendations • Directly responds to demands of activist NGO community

  16. The major priority of the Ocean Conservation and Tourism Alliance is to support the conservation of key destinations in the Hotspots. This will be achieved through: • Promoting better management • of priority destinations • Assisting shore excursion • providers to improve env- • onrmental performance • Company conservation • investments • Encouraging customer • contributions to conservation

  17. Value to the Cruise Industry The reasons the cruise industry has entered into this partnership are: • It was the right thing to do • The cruise industry depends on healthy oceans and destinations • Continue progress on environmental stewardship • Gain support in initiatives regarding the environment • CI has a proven track record of working with the private sector

  18. FUTURE GOALS

  19. Continue to recognize that the future of the industry depends on a clean and healthy environment • Continued commitment to stewardship of the environment by establishing industry practices that make cruise ships the leaders in environmental performance. • Develop consistent and uniform standards that apply to all cruise vessels.

  20. mcrye@iccl.org www.iccl.org 2111 Wilson Boulevard, 8th Floor Arlington, Virginia 22201 (703) 522-8463 (703) 522-3811 FAX The Center for Environmental Leadership in Business www.celb.org

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