[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by Ray

We have 2 trash compactors, one on deck 1 and one on deck 4.

We have 3 food grinders, one outside the main quarters galley and 2 spares, just in case. We cannot let the food go overboard unless it is ground up. So, broke grinder, we have to store it somewhere. We have between 150 and 160 POB. That would be bad to store all that food waste on board.

We have an electric corn grinder/macerator and an electric turn burner. It uses the macerator to make grits outta the turds and then passes thru the turd burner to kill any bacteria, then sends overboard.
When not working, we still have to macerate, but then pass thru chlorine bath to kill bacteria. When doing this, someone has to take cholorine residual test to make sure the right amount of chlorine is found in the overboard discharge to kill all bacteria. A record of the chlorine residual test has to be done every 12 hours and has to be sent in with the NPDES reports to the gov't every month. If no test is done when the turd burner goes out, again, we get INC'ed.

Wow, things have sure changed since I been offshore. They would just chunk all da food over the side. This was in the mid to late 90's.