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LEFT: Matson Navigation's Sand Island, Honolulu facility, the site from which ships' wastes are transported to regeneration plants according to the company's solid waste reduction plan.

INSET: A solid waste program onboard theMatsonia prevented 194 tons of garbage from being dumped into the ocean.

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July, 1995 through effective marketing of environmental com- pliance. rn 1989, when the Center For Marine Con-servation (CMC) held its annual California Coastal Cleanup, volunteers recovered a riece of plastic marine debris labeled "Matson

Navigation Company," which was determined co have spent 20 years floating around the

Pacific. Matson responded with concern, and in 1992, agreed to assist CMC in spearheading a pilot program for solid waste reduction. The two organizations worked cooperatively, and in the space of one year, implemented a project that was successful in preventing an esti- mated 194 tons of waste from being dumped into the ocean. Waste reduction programs not only make good environmental sense, they also have economic value for shipping companies who seek to avoid U.S. Coast

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Pollution Research and Control Act of 1987 went farther, imposing severe fines and prison sentences on violators of MARPOL Annex V, the annex relating specifically to solid waste disposal.

MARPOL regulations are getting stricter, with amendments scheduled to be adopted in March 1996.

These amendments will extend port state control to vessel operational requirements, which means that ships can be subjected to inspections in ports of other

Parties to the Convention, improving the efficiency with which marine pollution standards are enforced.

As standards increase, and more "special areas" are established, solid waste reduction programs will be- come a standard requirement. It is therefore in the interest of commercial shippers to initiate programs now to accomplish a twofold objective: to protect the health of the ocean resource; and to utilize reduction programs as a marketing tool to promote business.

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