Environment Articles
Now to some, the mention of human waste might not paint the most glamorous picture of superyacht life. But let’s talk numbers. Imagine 12 guests and 20 crew members, each generating around 200 grams of excreta daily for three months during the summer. The result? A staggering 600-1,000kg of waste, and possibly, more. Maintaining the balance in the tank levels and planning pump-outs ashore is no child’s play. Making final arrangements for offloading the waste certainly doesn’t top any engineer’s checklist!
Thankfully, a proven innovator like Evac Group has stepped in to upend this state of affairs. The company’s newest offering, the ‘Dehydro’ system, harnesses dehydration technology to reduce the wet human waste by approximately 80%. This convertion into a sterile dry powder negates the need for further treatment and abets the offloading process, making waste management notably simpler and more cost-effective.
For those unacquainted with the term ‘greenwashing’, it refers to a practice where false or misleading information is disseminated about an entity’s environmental practices or benefits. The super-swanky world of yachting has not been spared from this phenomenon. The reality is that the concept of a completely ‘green’ or ‘sustainable’ superyacht is presently elusive, primarily due to the significant impacts throughout its lifetime. In fact, the annual average carbon footprint of a superyacht can be shockingly equivalent to nearly nine centuries of emissions of the average person.