AMERICAN POLLUTION -- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

The anti-pollution regulations in USA are getting stricter year by year.

We have the VGP not allowing ships to use laundry machines while at berth, not allowing boiler blow down in port, putting off Cathelco system in port, not allowing ER ODMCS to function less than 3 miles from US shores ( while MARPOL allows it at 15 ppm , even in special areas  ) etc etc.

This is in addition to SOx and NOx rules.

It is time for the Yanks to consider the following.

Pollutions of US waters hardly happens due to ships.

How many registered and unregistered automobiles are there in USA in 2011. I am talking about cars, buses, trucks --the lot. It is in the region of 239 million units.

Now consider every automobile has engine lub oil in the engine sump. 60% of oil renewals are done privately by the automobile owner , in a do it yourself manner-- to save money.

After changing the oil, what do you think happens to the used oil?  On an average 5 litres per automobile !.

It goes into mother earth, to leach into the soil. With time it runs into streams and rivers to go into the sea.

This PERSISTANT used lub crankcase oil is a mindboggling amount. Approximately 585 million litres of oil  OR  520,000 Tonnes of thick dark mineral oil.  Exxon Valdez spilled only 42,800 Tonnes oil-- and all are still talking about it.

UNLESS YOU ENSURE THAT ENGINE OIL CANNOT BE SOLD OVER THE COUNTER, THIS WILL CONTINUE TO HAPPEN.

Now let us talk about non-biodegradable plastics. Americans discard 2.6 million plastic bottles every hour. Add to this plastic bags, coffee plastic cups, shrink wrap, product packaging , mobile phones, computers chassis --the works.

Every 2 years Yanks change their mobiles and Computers--with new models.

Where does it go?

If it is incinerated it pollutes the skies and people will get asthma , rhinitis, TB and Cancer..

If it is buried in landfills as it happens in USA, again mother earth gets polluted -- slow release over a thousand years. The Fresh Kills landfill near New York can be seen from space-- the only man made thing other than the Great Wall of China which can be seen .

Every day a plastic landfull closes in USA. In 19 years , there ain't gonna be any more space.

You decision to bury all your plastics in landfills is more STUPID than your decision in the past to fluorinate your drinking tap water. Flourine –found in Prozac and nerve gas Sarin, which is a free radical scavenger. Yes it protected your teeth, but screwed up your tiny calcified pineal glands and made morons out of an entire nation.

The time to do something is NOW. 

See what happened to the entire British race. Their selfish Zionist supporting politicians tried to ignore the MAD COW disease. It was the Govt's decision to feed vegetarian cows with non-veg stuff, to make them fatter and produce more milk.  This inordinate delay, altered DNA programming, and made morons out of an entire race. The British were a smart race before.  How many British can contest in World Univerities and defeat other races in IQ, today ?

FOOD FOR THOUGHT-- GENTLEMEN!

Solution?-- On my ship I never give a problem to the shore office without an attached solution--lest the honourable shore Superintendents go into a tizzy.  No sales of engine oil to private individuals-- MUST do in a registered facility, with proper paperwork!  Make fibre out of plastics and use it constructively to recycle!!

Stop targetting poor sailors! All this slow steaming, keeping 12 miles of US California West coast , and hooking on to shore power in port etc -- ain't gonna do much good.

Your MFN China sends up her industry smoke sky high, and it travels at terrific speed across the vast Pacific Ocean like a balloon in 3 days flat and rains down as acid rain on West coast--

--you cant do anything about it! 

Try twisting China's arm, and see what they do to your arms!!

CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
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