Preliminary reflexion about waste management plan in NRP ships

Abstract

The waste management and environmental protection have some guidelines, both on land and for ships, followed by all staff from Portuguese Navy (military, militarized and civilian) that cooperate and contribute to the waste management in Navy. Restricting the present study to the residues referred in Marpol 73/78 [1], considering Annexes I, IV and V. To evaluate the procedures how the storage and treatment of ship waste is performed, is necessary to verify the existing equipment, its operational status and whether there is an on-board plan about waste management. To evaluate the knowledge and cooperation of the military on board for the environment was built and implemented a questionnaire to the staff of some selected NRP ships after the permission of the Commander of Portuguese Surface Fleet. We have applied an intermediary level of statistical analysis, so we could identify the major questions contributions, associations and some independents variables that explains the knowledge, attitude and practice about waste management in ships.