The Garbage Barge is designed for storing and transporting trash, debris, and waste.
WASTES TYPES COLLECTED FROM VESSELS
1 ) Oil and Oil delivered wastes under the scope of Marpol 73/78 Annex-I, which arise due to normal activities of vessels;
Bilge: percolating water and oily wastewater formed in the machine and auxiliary sub-tanks of vessels, coffer dams, warehouses, or similar vessel sections.
Sludge: sludge is composed of residue and oily sediments formed in engine rooms, vessels’ fuel tanks, or oil tankers’ cargo tanks.
Slop: tank washing water formed due to the cargo tanks of vessels and oily water wastes accumulated in slop tanks.
Dirty Ballast: ballast water that causes the appearance of Oil, Oil derived stains, or oil stains above water or at the coastline or creates color changes above or underwater or causes accumulation of solid materials/emulsion in suspension when released from the vessel to sea.
Waste oil: dirty oils that lose their nature after being used by primary and auxiliary machines in the vessel. Solid sludge: oil sludge solidified at the bottom of the oil tank of the ship.
2 ) Wastewater/sewage under the scope of Marpol 73/78 Annex-IV: sewage: wastes from toilets, urinals, and toilet scuppers, liquid wastes from lavabo, scuppers, and basins in infirmary, dispensary, and hospitals, discharge from areas where live animals or other wastewaters are mixing with these.
3 ) Garbage/trash wastes under the scope of Marpol 73/78 Annex-V: trash: municipal and operational solid wastewaters formed due to the vessel’s usual operation and under the range of Marpol 73/78 Annex-V.
Category-1: plastic
Category-2: floating; piling tools, coating or packaging materials
Category-3: ground; paper products, scraps, glass, metal, bottles
Category-4: paper products, scraps, glass, metal, bottles, pottery
Category-5: food wastes
Category-6: kiln ashes, excluding the ones composed of heavy metal wastes or toxic plastic products