GARBAGE MANAGEMENT PLAN

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All ships of 100 gross tonnage and above, every ship certified to carry 15 persons or more and every fixed or floating platform must carry a garbage management plan on board.
Which includes written procedures for minimizing, collecting, storing, processing and disposing of garbage, including the use of the equipment on board (regulation 10.2).
The garbage management plan must designate the person responsible for the plan and be written in the working language of the crew.
Resolution MEPC.220(63) provides the 2012 Guidelines for the development of garbage management plans.

An approved garbage management plan must consist of the following-

Ships details.
Overview of Annex V of MARPOL.
List of Equipments for handling garbage on ship.
Placards to be posted for disposal criteria.
Possible local recycling arrangements.
Written procedures for Collecting Garbage.
Garbage segregation description to avoid intermixing of garbage which includes Identification of suitable receptacles for collection & separation.
Garbage processing methods available on the ship.
Garbage storing methods and garbage station.
Garbage disposal methods.
Entry to be made in garbage record book.
Emergency and accidental discharge criteria.
Needs of the reception facilities.
Identify the available operating & maintenance procedures of collecting equipment on board.
Describe the training or education programs to facilitate the processing of garbage.
Identify the location of each collection point.