It on board enters in alive the project "Sustainable Cruise" for the reduction and the money laundering of the solid wastes of the ships



It has entered in alive the project "Sustainable Cruise" for the reduction and the money laundering of the solid wastes on board of the residual ships and I re-use or the complete waste disposal. The project is co-financed by the EU commission through Program LIFE+, the instrument financial of the EU that supports the actions for the safeguard of the atmosphere, and is realized by Costa Crociere (front man), CE.Si.S.P. (Interuniversitario Center for the Development of the Sustainability of Prodotti), MedCruise, VOMM Systems and Srl Processes, Content Trade Srl, Design Innovation and RINA.

Ship pilot of the project is the unit from Costa Pacifica cruise di Costa Crociere, that it has an ability to 3.780 passengers and has commissioning to the end of May 2009. "We are very proud - Ernesto Gori has declared, vice president Quality Standards Compliance & Auditing di Costa Crociere - of being front man of this indeed innovative project for the entire marine field, in which on board of our Costa Pacifica new models of management for some types of solid wastes will be experienced. To be the first company to realize a so important project, that it will still more propose elevated standard for the treatment of the edge refusals, is a great acknowledgment of the excellence of our company in the environmental protection".

The activities previewed from the project "Sustainable Cruise" on Costa Pacifica preview regarding the packings - that is boxes of cardboard, the bottles of E glass plastic and the containers of plastic - participations for the reduction to the origin of this type of refusals, with the involvement also of the supplier companies of the produced ones.

Other participations of "Sustainable Cruise" that is to say regard the humid refusals - the alimentary refuse and the organic material, than on a ship as Costa Pacifica represents an important part, pairs to about 22% of the total of the solid wastes, from the moment that the ship can on board accommodate until almost 5,000 people between passengers and crew. Currently, as expected from international norm MARPOL (Annex V) to protection of the marine atmosphere, the residual food comes collected and crushed in an appropriate present system on board and that derives some it becomes food for the fish, that it is unloaded in sea. Thanks to the innovative technologies put in field from the project "Sustainable Cruise" the "produced flesh" from the trituration of the remainders of the food it will be dealt and it will be able to become by-product for example (compost).

The paper, the third type of refusals interested from the project, represents instead about 16% of the refusals produced from a ship as Pacific Coast. Within "Sustainable Cruise" already the supplying processes are analyzed, storing, on board use and digestion of the paper of the ship. Currently they are under consideration the processes to apply in order to reduce to the source, to on board re-use or to dispose in sustainable way residual of the paper materials the presents.