On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 03:10:33 GMT, Jere Lull wrote:


Garuda wrote:
If It's biodegradable, it's deep six'd.

In article xtQYc.73282$9d6.4269@attbi_s54, Dan Best
wrote:

Add to that anything that rusts (such as tin cans) or made out of glass
goes over the side into deep water.

Paper usually gets burned.

About the only thing that gets stored for later disposal is plastic and
aluminum. Both of which we try to minimize in our buying.

Off shore, I'd add aluminum as it's natural, one of the most abundant
metals and, as far as I have heard, not injurious to any life form.
About all I would not toss would be plastic and petroleum products.

Inshore is a very different, of course, but rubbish is (generally) easy
& cheap to get rid of.

Travelling between islands, I personally would store my trash in port,
dumping well offshore as *our* little bit affects the wide sea not at
all, but it would contribute slightly to the near-shore problems.


Thanks for all of this, but the question was more about how and where
you store the stuff that can't go over the side. And that can depend
on where you are.

Sure, Cans (steel or ali), paper, biodegrabales all go over once we're
far enough off shore, but if you're island hopping (where we no right
to dump our rubbish in small local villages) or coral sailing, we'll
keep everything on board until we are off-shore again or in an
appropriate place that can handle our rubbish.

And even you're are able to deep-six most stuff, you're still left
with all those odd bits of plastic that quite often have had food in
them.

When ever we've sailed on whatever boat, we've sea water washed the
trash, double bagged it and stored it whereever we can - on deck,
below decks, even in the dinghy hanging of davits on the stern (not so
good with downwind sailing). After a while, wherever, there's always
a smell floating around.

So has anyone got any mega ideas of where and how to stow it?

Peter

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