No more single-use plastic bottles for Norwegian
Norwegian’s paper carton is made from trees grown in responsibly managed forests, the company said, and the cap and shoulder are made from a sugarcane material.
Norwegian Cruise Line has eliminated plastic water bottles on its ships, replacing them with water packaged in paper cartons.
“It is imperative that we take meaningful steps to preserve our oceans and the destinations we visit,” said Andy Stuart, Norwegian’s president and chief executive office
The cartons are being supplied by Just Goods, a company in Glens Fall, N.Y., founded by actor Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith.
Norwegian is the first major global cruise line to eliminate single-use plastic bottles, a move that will eliminate more than 6 million bottles from the environment every year.
Norwegian said the price will remain the same as water packaged in plastic bottles, with a 500 ml carton at $4 and a liter at $5. Norwegian said that although the cartons are designed to be reusable, it will not have water-filling stations in use on its ships at this time.
Norwegian announced in 2018 it was eliminating single-use plastic straws across its fleet, which also includes Regent Seven Seas Cruises and Oceania Cruises, and on two island destinations, Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas and Harvest Caye in Belize.
Several other cruise lines, including Disney, Carnival and Royal Caribbean, have announced they were eliminating plastic straws.
Recycling
One line donates its crushed aluminum to the Boy Scouts in Juneau.
Cruise ships are some of the world’s most comprehensive recyclers. All waste materials aboard the ships are recycled, incinerated or offloaded and disposed of in approved shoreside facilities. Materials to be recycled are compacted, crushed or baled and stored on the ships until they are turned over to an approved vendor for disposal.
One line donates its crushed aluminum to the Boy Scouts in Juneau, another offloads its used cooking oil for use as biofuel, and others donate used bedding to various non-profits.
Materials to be recycled are compacted, crushed or baled and stored on board the ships until they are turned over to an approved vendor for disposal.
In Vancouver, B.C., Tymac Launch Service has the contract to service the ships that homeport there for the summer. Tymac typically removes 42 tons of aluminum during a season, along with 261 tons of cardboard and 207 tons of scrap metal, and sends 22 loads of wood to the recyclers.
Each week it hands over an average of six large boxes of printer and toner cartridges to the Vancouver Food Bank. The cartridges are sold to a recycler for a small fee.
This video outlines onboard practices within the cruise industry to reduce waste: