Green Ship Recycling

The increasing waste and its improper management are one of the crises that countries across the world face these days. Be it an agricultural waste or industrial waste, the rise in the disposal of waste materials is at an alarming rate, polluting the land, air and water as never before. Studies have stated that 40 percent of the waste worldwide ends up in huge rubbish tips, and also the oceans will see more plastic in it than fish by 2050. However, the concrete efforts in the past few decades have made remarkable changes in our disposable culture and also opened doors for a number of alternatives to waste disposal. Among them, recycling has been widely accepted as one of the fruitful methods for waste management.
Like any other industry, the shipping industry, indeed world’s biggest polluters, also creates a huge amount of waste every day. While ships dispose hundreds of tonnes of garbage from day to day operations, the disposing of a ship after it reaches the end of its service life also leaves a huge amount of waste, posing a potential hazard to the environment. The improper disposal of the ships in earlier days, especially when they were left unattended after discontinuation from the service, has created several graves of abandoned ships around the world. And, in the past decades, ship owners have also tried several other techniques; including Scuttling-the deliberate sinking of a ship, deep water sinking and shipbreaking, to get rid of their old vessels.