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Move toward ban of disposal of plastics at sea
Volume 17/Number 5/May 1986
10 months has shown that few European ports have the necessary facilities and that little is apparently being done at present to meet the deadline in 12 months time. The ECCTO argue that governments and port authorities should be making official arrangements so that ship owners can be guaranteed of disposing of residues. The owners are concerned that the lack of organized arrangements at ports to enable ships to dispose of residues in compliance with MARPOL will force them to arrange disposal privately and at their own cost. ECCTO has 35 member ship owners with 100 vessels. It represents 85% of coastal chemical tankers amounting to more than half a million tonnes dead weight.
Move Toward Ban of Disposal of Plastics at Sea A resolution recog~izirtg the harm caused to marine life from entanglement and ingestion of persistent plastics and other such materials was unanimously adopted at the ninth consultative meeting of the London Dumping Convention (LDC). It requests the LDC Secretariat to bring the resolution to the attention of the International Maritime Organization's 0/dO) Marine Environment Protection Committee and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The LDC prohibits the dumping of persistent plastics which may float or remain in suspension in the sea and are liable to harm living resources and other marine life. The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol
of 1978 (MARPOL, 73/78) also bans the disposal of plastics at sea.
Aqualine Data Base on Infoline The Aqualine database produced by the Water Research Centre in the UK will be exclusively available through the Infoline service from i February 1986. The Water Research Centre's contract with Pergamon Infoline for the exclusive loading of Aqualine is part of their agreement with Pergamon Press Lid who now publish the corresponding publication Aqualine
Abstracts. Aqualine is a well established database covering the world's literature on water and wastewater technology for the period 1960 to date. The subjects covered fall into the following major categories: Water Resources and Supplies, Water Quality, Monitoring and Analysis of Water and Wastes, Water Treatment, Underground Services and Water Use, Sewage, Industrial Effluents, Effects of Pollution and Appropriate Technology. The database contains over 90,000 records each one including the rifle, reference and an informative abstract of the original journal article, technical report, conference paper or monograph. Pergamon Infoline, in conjunction with the Water Research Centre, are organizing free seminars on the Aqualine database. There will also be 30 minutes' free connect lime on Pergamon Infoline for all their customers during February or March 1986. For further information contact: Margaret Wilkinson, Pergamon Infoline Ltd, 12 Vandy Street, London EC2A 2DE.
"Mark my words, in the course of time the oceans will be filled with rubbish, washing back and forth on the tides like so much pig swill..."
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10 months has shown that few European ports have the necessary facilities and that little is apparently being done at present to meet the deadline in 12 months time. The ECCTO argue that governments and port authorities should be making official arrangements so that ship owners can be guaranteed of disposing of residues. The owners are concerned that the lack of organized arrangements at ports to enable ships to dispose of residues in compliance with MARPOL will force them to arrange disposal privately and at their own cost. ECCTO has 35 member ship owners with 100 vessels. It represents 85% of coastal chemical tankers amounting to more than half a million tonnes dead weight.
Move Toward Ban of Disposal of Plastics at Sea A resolution recog~izirtg the harm caused to marine life from entanglement and ingestion of persistent plastics and other such materials was unanimously adopted at the ninth consultative meeting of the London Dumping Convention (LDC). It requests the LDC Secretariat to bring the resolution to the attention of the International Maritime Organization's 0/dO) Marine Environment Protection Committee and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The LDC prohibits the dumping of persistent plastics which may float or remain in suspension in the sea and are liable to harm living resources and other marine life. The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol
of 1978 (MARPOL, 73/78) also bans the disposal of plastics at sea.
Aqualine Data Base on Infoline The Aqualine database produced by the Water Research Centre in the UK will be exclusively available through the Infoline service from i February 1986. The Water Research Centre's contract with Pergamon Infoline for the exclusive loading of Aqualine is part of their agreement with Pergamon Press Lid who now publish the corresponding publication Aqualine
Abstracts. Aqualine is a well established database covering the world's literature on water and wastewater technology for the period 1960 to date. The subjects covered fall into the following major categories: Water Resources and Supplies, Water Quality, Monitoring and Analysis of Water and Wastes, Water Treatment, Underground Services and Water Use, Sewage, Industrial Effluents, Effects of Pollution and Appropriate Technology. The database contains over 90,000 records each one including the rifle, reference and an informative abstract of the original journal article, technical report, conference paper or monograph. Pergamon Infoline, in conjunction with the Water Research Centre, are organizing free seminars on the Aqualine database. There will also be 30 minutes' free connect lime on Pergamon Infoline for all their customers during February or March 1986. For further information contact: Margaret Wilkinson, Pergamon Infoline Ltd, 12 Vandy Street, London EC2A 2DE.
"Mark my words, in the course of time the oceans will be filled with rubbish, washing back and forth on the tides like so much pig swill..."
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