How Waste Is Dealt With On The World's Largest Cruise Ship

The 6,600 passengers on board the world's largest cruise ship produce a lot of trash. We went inside the secret, crew-only deck of Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas to see how crews process millions of pounds of water, food, and dry waste each year.

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How Waste Is Dealt With On The World's Largest Cruise Ship

[chris-vvnt]

There's a rule on many buffets in my country. "No leftovers". If you have leftovers you will pay. That's a good rule to implement to reduce the waste of cruise ships

[zachf]

The amount of wasted food is insane. Who the hell sits down for a meal and finishes with more food still on the plate than they actually ate?

[Stephanpar]

Moral of the story: When a large company says they aren't doing something that is destroying the environment, they are.

[Errcyco]

Conditions looks MUCH better then I’d have ever imagined on the very bottom floor of a massive ship like this. I also didn’t know about the water bottle thing, a clever solution to a massive task.

[spiderliliez]

The accent gives it away. Alex is from the Philippines.

[BFNJay]

I actually can’t remember the last time I didn’t finish a meal.

[authenticapparel]

It’s that they would ever consider dumping trash right into the ocean. The fine shouldn’t be in cash. They have plenty of money. It should be a ban of your business. That would be the ultimate deterrent.

[Workof]

I see, they dont dump their plastic in the ocean. Instead they collect and compact it, bring it to Miami, so it can get exported to Malaysia and get dumped in the ocean there 👌🏼

[silentobserver]

So they were dumping everything for 30 years before the the technology.

[brapozo]

"we have two incinerators, one and two" LOL

[kori]

Alex: *Filipino*

Every Filipino: You, I like you

[KlausHendryck]

I see a huge problem with expressing penalties for businesses only in monetary fines. Their analysts can trim this into a simple cost benefit calculation. "Dumping trash into the ocean has a x% chance of being detected and would roughly cost us x amount of $. Whereas correct recycling would cost y times as much. So we just dump it in the ocean." No. Penalties must be expressed in actual bans or limitations of operation in an area and/or time frame. This way businesses would have a real incentive to act right.

[imlost]

the thumbnail looked like they just turn it all into fried rice

[pen_l]

*Next Episode: How Coronavirus is dealt with on Cruise Ships*

[uss_]

March 2020:
All cruise ship videos are generally assumed to be about Coronavirus

[martinpolt]

I worked on a cruise ship and I can tell you I saw huge piles of garbage being thrown out at 2 am into the ocean on a regular basis.

[TopCheese]

“Waste can’t and shouldn’t be dumped in the ocean”
New York : 😂😂🤫

[Arianacccosta]

After I moved out from my family and be independent in another country, I never waste food . It’s so precious

[Lwilibert]

I was living un Buzios, Brasil when a cruise dumped cleaning wastes in the océan. The people at the beach (tartaruga beach, a place full of tourists) ended at the hospital and 2 of them lost sight. If there is an industry I'm quite happy to see struggle is the cruise lines. I'm sorry for the hundred of jobs that will be lost but cruises suck.

[casiopistachio]

Anyone else belive that the food waste pipe just goes straight out the bottom of the ship 🤣🤣🤣