Best Practice Guide for SUP Removal
Overview
The art and science of removing single-use plastic bottles from ships - A practical guide to ensuring safe and high-quality drinking water and realising the environmental benefits of plastic removal.
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The BIMCO guide addresses the issue of how to provide drinking water on ships without using single-use plastic bottles. Such bottles are recognised as a significant source of marine pollution due to the sheer volumes used globally and the high potential for mismanagement of waste on land - meaning they may become litter even if good waste management onboard is in place.
The guide provides information for shipowners to enable them to develop strategies and plans and highlights the significant cost-savings and additional business, moral and environmental benefits of stepping away from plastics. Practical steps are provided for shipowners wishing to move away from the use of plastic bottles for supplying drinking water on board. The guide describes technologies designed to replace bottled water and details key questions for shipowners to ask potential suppliers- providing the necessary tools to choose the most effective and suitable system.
Most important the guide seeks to ensure seafarer wellbeing in at the core. Changing seafarers’ behaviour and attitude towards drinking water provided from an onboard system (or “tap water”) is fundamental and perhaps the most critical component towards ensuring the success of the whole initiative. As such, this guide outlines different methods to encourage seafarers to trust and consume water produced on board, including regular water testing, transparent communication of test results, and conducting blind taste tests as well as ways to dispel misconceptions about tap water.
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24 July 2024
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