Sunday, February 20, 2011

Cruise Ships and the things you just might not know...


Most of us love the idea of traveling the world on a luxury boat and getting to see several places at once for a relatively cheap price. While aboard a cruise ship you get accommodation, food, shopping and in several cases everything you need while on vacation.

Unfortunately many people don’t know the amount of pollution that a cruise ship can deposit into the environment in just one day.  Here are some astonishing facts that I found while doing some research; Environmental Protection Agency averaged that one ship can produce about 21 000 gallons of sewage, 1 ton of garbage, 170 000 gallons of waste water, and about 8 500 plastic water bottles a day. If this doesn’t shock you, I don’t know what will. 

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