Photo: ODT fileSuspended in an observation dome, high above the deck of a large cruise ship, passenger Russell Wells was puzzled by what he saw. The Cruise Lines International Association said that cruise ships globally recycled 80,000 tonnes of paper, plastic, aluminium and glass each year. "We received a number of complaints last cruise ship season, in particular on cruise ship exhaust emissions in Milford Sound, and the inversion layer they were creating in there." Cruise ships coming to New Zealand from January next year will meet new clean-burning standards, aimed at reducing fuel emissions. "Where deemed clean, cruise ships are able to recycle paper and glass but this has to have been pre-inspected by MPI," a port company spokesman said.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 30, 2019 19:41 UTC