US Navy Genius Solution to Dispose Tons of Trash Inside $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier

[@benlent3254]

The captain of the ship was helping an E-1 with the garbage that wasn't staged,100% normal Navy operations. 😅

[@ColonelSandersLite]

What are you talking about? The captain is *DEFINITELY* a close personal friend with every one of the 5,000 crew members and is *ALWAYS* down to come help a guy out if he's having an issue or maybe just needs some company.

[@enriqueavila5882]

I bet the Captain even helps clean the bilges, then stands mail bouy watch!😅

[@ejharvey2764]

Yeah, I had to pause the video and look closely. At first, it looked like seagulls but it was a captain eagle

[@GT_Racer347]

Outstanding!

[@BobbiFarren]

Yep, there is a truism, a tradition, as was good form for the senior officer to make his/her way around the ranks and sonetimes help out, chat, get a reading of the crew. I had a masterchief helping me broom scrub the loading dock with caustic lye during bootcamp....and our Captain ate last...

[@mrkeiths48]

Thanks for the report. As a Navy team, we have to cover all aspects of the operation. Thanks to the crew who handle this part of keeping that carrier afloat. Go NAVY!!!

[@JohnBarrios-x7l]

This was a interesting video!!!! In my days in the Navy we dumped over board. Really appreciate how science has Improved our knowledge of better ways to improve our environment!!!!!!

[@seizingthedream]

Same here... I remember the line of my fellow junior enlisted heading to the stern to throw plastic garbage bags overboard. We only did it when we were outside of the environment though.

[@Smotheredinpeanutbutter]

Same. I’m 2008 we were still throwing waste overboard.

[@jinxtkat4123]

I thought that's what the fantail was built for.

[@badblistersandsores]

Does the Chinese Navy and the Chinese fishing fleets discharge plastics directly into the sea?

[@robertkreiling1746]

YES THEY DO !

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Yes.

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

Always.

[@user-cz8do7xl8u]

Of course not. They bring it home and dump it into rivers that lead to the sea. Sheesh.

[@robertkreiling1746]

@@user-cz8do7xl8u I was being sarcastic

[@thomasmasters7354]

As a former solid waste operator at a transfer station and recycle center, I found this very enlighten

[@lechen5540]

Good to see and learn about the garbage on ships. Thanks.

[@andrewlondon3461]

I worked for the company that built those shredder and packaging machines and I did the final assembly on that exact shedder

[@GeorgeJansen]

That has to be one of the top 3 most important jobs on the Carrier. Thank you folks for your service, Sgt Bailey usa 87 to 95 ❤❤❤❤

[@Ghost_Recon_Actual]

Great informational video about a critical topic.

[@JusticeAlways]

Nice to see the Navy is encouraging recycling. I wish they would quit using those crappy single use water bottles...PETE is difficult & expensive to recycle - limited in what useful products can be made. I have 30+ years experience in plastics molding / recycling. 🇺🇸

[@BeeFunKnee]

Plastic containers sell water. If the ship has a system the personnel could fill refillable containers there'd go lots of money, easy money at that. Body's gotta have that H2O or else wilt, then perish right into a dead human raison mummy.

[@JusticeAlways]

@BeeFunKnee There was a time sailors didn't use the one use throw away bottles..right?

[@BeeFunKnee]

@ Haven't any honest clue, no skin ever in that game. I do recall a time we all used glass bottles though, even for water. I was only guessing why they still SELL water in plastic bottles like that when they really don't need to.

[@LearningSpanishwithDrL]

Great video!

[@dundonrl]

In the 90's (I was on board my first ship from April 93 till April 98) and everything went overboard. " "Sweepers, Sweepers, man your brooms. Give the ship a clean sweep down both fore and aft! Sweep down all decks, ladders and passageways! Dump all garbage clear of the fantail! Sweepers."

[@walkerd73]

Yes, many Times. i was working in the bake shop TAD and dumping size 10 cans (cherry filling for deserts) and the guy inspecting was going to reach into the bag with bare hands I had to tell him to stop as i did not want him to slice his fingers, he gave me attitude until I told him about the can lids.

[@BobbiFarren]

@@dundonrl damn. you joggled my memory. you must remember that from having quarterdeck watch or something... cheers (usn 90-94)

[@FreemanSprings]

Those who have been there.. just listening to all the stuff being dumped at sea while you’re out on the weather decks is astounding.

[@FlyToChina0071]

Interesting video - Thanks for posting 🙂 Regards from DK

[@michaelfred8848]

I remember that they would announce over the intercom, Now hear this, Now hear this, hold a clean sweep down for and aft . Throw all trash over the fantail. This was back in the 60’s . I also remember seeing a giant white bobbing up and down in our wake feeding on our trash . It was before Jaws and as big or bigger than Jaws. I was on a helicopter carrier in the med. It all explained why there was so much trash on those beaches. I’m glad they took responsibility for developing a much better way to handle the trash👍👍

[@sar4x474]

The Navy could solve much of this problem by merely serving only real food to the sailors. Most people have come to realize there is no need for water bottled in plastic bottles. Plus, if we stop eating so-called food packaged in foil or plastic, we’d all be much healthier.

[@davidferguson5536]

Good report on waste control. Nice to know all ships must follow these rules🤩👍. Except Russia ,china, North Korea 😢

[@gf3559]

For some reason i do not think a captain is normally helping with this job!!

[@Mutlap]

working for the video

[@steeltiger5000]

I picked on that too lol! Photo Op

[@adamsapple7193]

My captain made an effort to work all safe as of the ship several times a year and would ask us questions to learn. The captain wants to know how everything works.

[@fitzt70]

Thanks for the video. My friends who served in the 80’s and 90’s told me of horrific stories of wanton disposal methods used by the Navy. I hope this has truly changed.

[@Allen-w9d]

It is easy to condemn those in the past based on the ways things are done in modern times, all while forgetting they did not have modern knowledge and the modern technology. It is hard to educate yourself and understand the differences between then and now and far too many people are too lazy to learn and understand.

[@adamsapple7193]

Trust me, it has

[@thebigmon]

Oh, look. An O-6 helping with the trash. I'm sure he does that all the time when the cameras are gone.

[@patrickdaly5117]

Maybe a “mustang”? Mustangs know what work is. As one, I shamed many enlisted and junior NCO’s by jumping in and getting dirty when they were standing around.

[@nonsquid]

Things really have changed since I have been in to have a captain processing garbage.

[@andycapp79]

Last time you visited norway. We found and lot of trash from the us on many of the shores that you passed by. So i dont think your vaste system works. And the reason we know is becouse we dont have those products in norway....

[@anderslvolljohansen1556]

"People in a garbage collection network along the Norwegian coast were left scratching their heads when they found an unusual type of garbage in a dozen places before Christmas: English-language plastic packaging for various grains and breakfast cereals. They wondered where it could have come from. - There is an extreme amount. "Cheerios" (...) And various Kellogg's. It looks like it must have come from some ship, said Are Grønsund of the Environmental Foundation River and Sea in a video from the island of Herføl in Østfold." Dagbladet newspaper, translatet by Google.

[@anderslvolljohansen1556]

A package label with the name of a US supply ship that supplied the Aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman off the Norwegian coast in mid-November, was found among the trash.

[@rosshixon6796]

Lol yeah it goes overboard at 3 am. 😂 its called night ops.

[@rodfreess6019]

It certainly doesn't get sorted like that when there aren't cameras present. Give me a break.

[@bruce5579]

Terrible video. Not one explanation of what they’re actually doing. What is the actual process. Would have been a better video without the narrative.

[@bradsmith4279]

Getting really cozy with all that trash though

[@walkerd73]

Why is a captian in the trash room ? hint it is for the cameras.

[@LeslieCaudill]

My thoughts exactly!

[@jinxtkat4123]

It's a punishment lol.

[@hobman]

Captain...😂

[@philthycat1408]

Where’s the genius part ?

[@brucejedwabny3473]

The navy was the biggest polluter of out beautiful oceans. Once they got out at sea so far from any port that used fork lifts to push full pallets off the tail fin.

[@WYODutch]

BZ-Glad to see Recycling on our Navy Ships Very Cool. Thank You.

[@charletonzimmerman4205]

What about on-board- "Submarines"?

[@redsorgum]

They are turned into MRE’s …….😘🤪

[@user-cz8do7xl8u]

They package everything in edible packaging. Nothing goes to waste.

[@BeachsideHank]

Can't that plastic be recycled into something useful for shipboard life like condoms?

[@Adiscretefirm]

Having a 10 mile long line of floating garbage also makes finding you a lot easier

[@kdtune33]

When did they stop dumpin it overboard?

[@joshuabessire9169]

"Run Silent, Run Deep" shows some of the hazards of garbage pollution at sea. Apparently the Japanese were rabid environmentalists.

[@centralplains7608]

One of the all time great submarine movies!! Great scene of guy (Seamen Cook "Russo") running to mount the bridge as the sub was diving. Doubt if today's Navy would allow such a scene to be filmed aboard a US nuclear sub (due to liability issues). Ans don't forget that nuclear waste dumping from some illegal Japanese ships caused Godzilla's massive size.

[@BeachsideHank]

@@centralplains7608 "...(Seamen Cook "Russo")..." That was Burt Lancaster's good friend Nick Cuccia (Cravat), who was his childhood friend and circus partner. They had dreams of joining the circus together, and Lancaster continued to support Cuccia throughout his life. Cuccia also played the Gremlin in the Twilight Zone classic "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" with William Shatner.

[@centralplains7608]

@ Thx! Knew that he was a close friend of Lancaster, but didn't know he played the Gremlin in "Twilight Zone" (also a favorite episode as I was an airline mech for 20 years). Happy New Years to you and family and God Bless.

[@bigcatauna]

3:28 a 5-gallon bucket of Mclube on a navy ship 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@A3Kr0n]

Join the Navy! Travel to distant places. Meet new people. Clean up the garbage.

[@superdave8248]

Those have got to be the cleanest coveralls I have ever seen on board a ship.

[@samuelbaker6821]

This is how you stretch 2 min of information out for +15 min

[@stevenwarner7348]

The Whole Crew should be rotated through this duty. Say EVERYONE have TRASH duty three or four days a month. Or maybe just two shifts a month. EVERYONE. 💥👍💥

[@davealmighty9638]

You have obviously never been aboard a naval vessel. I was a nuclear machinist mate on the Eisenhower. I, along with the other few hundred nuclear operators were a little bit too busy operating reactors, so there is no chance we would ever have time for a watch like this. Same applies to 95% of the carriers personell. We don't go to sea to learn how to dispose of garbage. That's not, and will never be the mission of a Navy vessel. That's why it's important to score well on the ASVAB, and not join without a predetermined path.

[@user-cz8do7xl8u]

@@davealmighty9638 I was on the IKE from 96-99, AIMD. Small world.

[@BeeFunKnee]

@@davealmighty9638 I have zero skin in the game, but I have generated lots of garbage and have also seen many throw away bag after bag in the dumpster. I can form an honest opinion though... How about following the mentality you described, but keep an aspect such as instead of "ALL" be mandatory-working the particular duties involved, they just each tour the facilities for a certain short duration in order to get the feeling regarding what their own waste produces and involves in total collaboration. Most people feel trash is to be soon enough unconsidered because it can just disappear from their mind as soon as it's thrown away. Watching trash all getting processed might be an eyeopener that creates much less trash through proper consideration? I must guess at these things though. I haven't spent even a micro-second onboard a carrier. I only know that we'd honestly be up to our eyeballs if not over our heads with garbage if people weren't working the jobs they do to dispose of it. Maine says "Hello".

[@davealmighty9638]

@BeeFunKnee they already do that. Every sailor on a naval surface ship, has to get a surface warfare qualification. Submariners get a sub service qualification. That involves learning all aspects of the ships functions. There is a pin that sailors receive when they achieve this. It does not make them qualified to stand watch at any given station, but signifies that they have a general understanding of all ship operations, and understand their duties in there specialty rate. Like you said, you have no knowledge of how life is aboard a naval vessel, and you guys make ignorant suggestions that sound good to you, but absolutely ridiculous to those who have been there.

[@l.dennisfarmer4810]

All crew members stand watch , security, etc. all received training in damage control, fire 7:09 fighting, etc. specialized 7:25 specialized

[@Nevets1970]

Steel IS biodegradable waste. It’s called Rust. Metal rusts then eventually breaks down. Yes, it takes Forever but still. Also, as retired Air Force, I’ve Never seen an O-6 handle garbage without a camera crew watching them for a photo op. NEVER!

[@mht525]

In Australia, we separate waste at source by using different bins for different substances. 1 bin for food waste. 1 bin for glass 1 bin for green waste 1 bin for paper/,cardboard. Etc. Burning plastics and waste is not environmentally or physically safe.. Do that's not recycled and not responsible. 🙏✌️🤘🇦🇺

[@philipfrazee5661]

What happens during the disposal and or re-cycling of human urine and organic waste ?

[@Xalta_Sailor]

In my part of Australia we only separate rubbish into “Recyclables” and “Non-recyclable”; However both trucks dump and the same tip site. All for show.

[@brandymb]

What is a Navy Captain doing running trash? That’s just shall i say, different?

[@WilliamHahn-o8f]

I was beginning to think I was the only one to notice that! I couldn't entirely catch his breast insignia, but I think that was the CO!

[@SpeiderSchneider]

Are these MOS positions or a punishment post?

[@axcenomega]

Great kess waste more useable material aboard the ship if they had a pla printer they could prototype with the plastic waste

[@jimwjohnq.public]

All the ships I was on once we hit international waters, we threw our trash over the side.

[@r.h.0101]

I am sure China and all the other countries are doing as good of a job as we are!!! :)

[@mkpears]

...it is like listening to a llullabye... 😊

[@hahaha12345678993]

do these ships have desalination capabilities or they rely on fresh water resupply

[@ronaldhidde7119]

Back in the 80's we just through it all off the fantail.

[@bobmayoue2048]

When I was in the Navy ‘79-‘83 we dumped everything over the side! I Thought how bad this was to the environment then!!! I am so glad times have changed…

[@delanos53]

But they dump Aluminum into the ocean. Ignoring the pollution it takes a lot of electricity to produce aluminum. Do you like the idea of aluminum in your seafood aluminum is linked to dementia.

[@Mr007troy]

Why are these systems not used in cleaning up our landfills?

[@mikes8500]

Crappy video, repeats the same info over and over again to achieve longer runtime.

[@centralplains7608]

Over a thousand viewers marked it 👍🏽, so that means they learned something about an unknown subject that you didn't. Besides, while the 1st part of the video covered waste management on an Aircraft Carrier, the 2nd half of the video covered the practice on civilian ships. Am glad I learned something I hadn't thought about and glad somebody took the time and effort to present it.

[@montanausa329]

How about hitting stop

[@ChegatronExpress]

Surely the most environmental way to not have lots of little water bottles is to have one big one?

[@RalfPinkaire-f7w]

Obviously the world genius has d changed meanings

[@jackhinds7187]

Freaking hilarious, a captain getting his hands dirty, to show off for the cameras...lol

[@mcurtis600]

That’s not a captain but a junior enlisted.

[@jackhinds7187]

@@mcurtis600 and the collar devices? khaki belt?

[@troystallard6895]

Times have changed; I was in the Navy 1969-73. I threw many a bag of trash overboard, and watched it bob away in our wake. Even back then, I didn't think it was a really good idea..

[@mikeingeorgia1]

If bio-diesel can be made from so many sources, I wonder if they could make their own bio-fuel to help power the ship?

[@glennsoucy9767]

And put that into which of the nuclear reactors?

[@mikeingeorgia1]

@ they never travel alone. All of the ships don’t have nuclear reactors

[@Horsefingerandthetaintwrights]

That's what you get when you washout in BUDS.

[@scoobydoo5447]

The coastal cities of this world still just dump their trash into the ocean. What’s stopping the ships from continuing the practice?

[@Eke817]

Very interesting….

[@FreemanSprings]

Wait they are not dumping non plastic trash over the side in international waters anymore?

[@earlinemcgahen3931]

those plastic pucks can be shredded and run through extruders and reused for more items

[@jeffeshbaugh3341]

very good video

[@xfirehurican]

*Everything that's being compressed, shredded, burned, etc, is FUEL.* *Technology already exists to convert to usable energy, even metal 'paste', instead of dumping overboard.*

[@tedmoss]

When you consider that a ship could be traced through the water by the waste it throws overboard, it is a genius solution.

[@markbajek2541]

Or you could just use a couple of sats to track the entire task force

[@shanepowers7566]

We already do that by looking at them with satellites.

[@OriginalJetForMe]

Why do they even have single-use water bottles?

[@ccfmfg]

Being a Garbageman in the City, uh. Being a Garbageman stuck out to Sea for 6 months at a time, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for 2/3 of Your 20 Year Career, Priceless. Remember, It's not a Job, It's an Adventure.

[@Don_ECHOguy]

I had not even remotely thought about the trash thing after watching tons of carrier content. . . . this must be a near nightmare to deal with.

[@joshr8666]

Outside of environmental concerns I wonder if this allows them to be more stealthy because there isn't a trash pile to follow.

[@brianhanson9367]

Sort clean compress Then put it in plastic bags

[@TrumpNation96]

Where does the human waste go?

[@Sarge-at-Large]

Very sure it is discharged into the sea nearly immediately. You can’t store that stuff on the ship 😅

[@TrumpNation96]

Sounds about right

[@centralplains7608]

They should use the same systems that the ISS uses, where they recycle the pee into drinkable water and compress all the liquid out of the feces to use as cooling fluids while the solid matter is ejected into space. There's a couple of YT vids where astronauts discuss this and other routines aboard the ISS. Very interesting and informative.

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

To my house in NewvYork city.

[@zumbazumba1]

Human waste isnt a problem at all ,it sinks to bottom and crabs and other bottom vultures feed on it.Problem is detergents and other chemicals for example soap when you wash hands or wash clothes with detergent.

[@kevinlucas8437]

Still seems a little complicated and messy. There must be better, more efficient ways !!!

[@johnelliott4521]

Pity the sailors that do nothing but 😊waste management

[@matthewknobel6954]

I am surprised that the navy has not mandated that as many items on ship are biodegradable and not plastic. If cities can mandate such things why not the navy?

[@MrTodfoulk]

2000 hrs...all refuse to the fantail! glad they got it figured finally!

[@ReddThreee]

To help dispose the trash, paper and plastic bags are manufactured and they themselves become trash. Sort of like deliberately making products to deliberately become trash.

[@nicolasfonrose103]

Very interesting but a bit less information-dense than usual, if I may :-)

[@syx3s]

nice. once again the plastic waste management chain has an open end. phase one: collect underpants. phase two: ?????? phase three: _PROFIT_

[@fredwood1490]

Let me guess: those guys down in waste disposal are called "The Trash Fairies"!? So after their tour is done, they can get a good paying job as a Trash Fairy on a cruise ship or even a freighter, but that would only be a part of the job on a freighter. Cool!

[@ramadaxl]

I just had a (weird ) thought...how many of those methods will work when we ( eventually ) have ships that go into space ? I mean you cant just chuck stuff out of the airlock !

[@davedixon2068]

course you can space is really big ya know

[@zumbazumba1]

@@davedixon2068 And then you get hit by a tiny peace of plastic going 30.000km/h that leaves a baseball size hole in your suit.Trash in the orbit is already big problem. But i guess solution would be to dump it into sun.

[@davedixon2068]

@@zumbazumba1 You have heard of sarcasm I suppose.

[@ColonelSandersLite]

@@zumbazumba1 "But i guess solution would be to dump it into sun." I know that this idea has been popularized in various works of fiction and media over the years, but it's genuinely not actually remotely feasible. This isn't really the place for me to go into great detail on the exact reasons why, which would have to include some sort of basic class on orbital mechanics. But, in an extremely over simplified sense, this has to do with angular momentum. It is far easier to launch a payload at mars than it is to launch a payload at the sun because we have a relatively more similar angular momentum with each other than we do with the sun. So let's say we have a hypothetical space ship that moves stuff between earth and mars. Somewhere along the way, some crewman wants to throw the contents of the trash can, at 10 pounds of trash, at the sun. The speed of the ship relative to the sun is somewhere between earth's and mar's speed. So somewhere between 54,000 and 67,000 miles per hour. In order to actually hit the sun with the garbage, the crewman would have to somehow decelerate it (relative to the sun) by about that much. That would take a *massive* amount of energy to do. So let's say they fire it out of a cannon. A very rough 'back of a napkin' calculation, assuming 100% energy conversion efficiency and no shell weight - it would take a tnt charge weighing about 900 pounds to send that 10 pound trash bag.

[@markbajek2541]

So you're still dumping some of the biodegradable trash overboard just compressing or shredding it first, with machines that cost $$$ to build, run, maintain and use earth resources, like iron , copper etc to produce., then the stuff that you do take back to shore just most likely gets landfilled after being pucked or you're incinerating the burnable stuff 12 miles off shore , is any of that heat used for anything like energy conversion? .

[@cbpuzzle]

Imagine being the new guy and they make u burn garbage 16 hrs a day for 2 yrs and call u a sailor protecting your country.

[@Jhonronk]

There was recently discovered garbage on our shores from the usa carrier that visited Oslo in Norway recently. Still waiting for answers from the American navy. If it was an accident, they should have reported to someone, garbage doesn't just fall off the boat unnoticed?

[@grahamraines8447]

The plant is there but loading sorting,bagging storage lighting and working area lighting and transfer are all very poorly plannned,lifting loads above men’s heads into systems seems almost common is this plant bypassed and normally garbage dumped once away from coast!!! as the processes are so poorly conceived as to be a hoodwink

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

🌎👍❤

[@leonardodalongisland]

Meanwhile they use plastic (and paper) cups. Get rid of those plastic Starbuck cups!!!! The less plastic you bring on board, the less you'll have to throw away.

[@coloradostrong8285]

I was given a tour of #78 the USS Ford. I asked a boatload of questions, and the Navy guy didn't have a lot of answers. I saw dozens and dozens of CO2 extinguishers next to ones that were labled PKP. He didn't know what it meant, or what they were used for. I looked it up, and it's "Purple K". He was telling me all about the landing lights on the deck... blah blah. I asked if they were LEDs. Nope- still using incandescent bulbs. Do what? Next, he was showing the lights for guiding the aircraft in, whether they are too high or too low. LEDs? Nope. Incandescent bulbs in there too. They had "emergency" flashlights in various places, throughout the decks and levels. They looked like they were leftovers from the 60's. I asked if they were rechargeable, and he said... nope. One of his guys _replaced the batteries._ Some of the flashlights were still using sealed beams, and a couple of them had LEDs that were dimmer than a Dollar Tree flashlight. Pathetic. The garbage? Well, when the machine actually worked, it uses a plasma to incinerate the garbage. Roughly over 1/2 the time they still did this idiotic seperating thing, because this ultra modern garbage disposal idea just didn't work. A waste of money for waste. Just push it over, around a certain small country in the middle east.

[@donaldoyler2092]

They dumped everything even plastic products overboard all the way up into the 90s

[@bigdreeamer]

When my dad was in Vietnam, he was on a carrier and they dumped everything right in the water. Ice cream to tool boxes. Everything went overboard.

[@mr.bigglesworth731]

at time stamp 15.03 we see a crew member making Starbucks coffee on an aircraft carrier!!!! really!!...we are doomed!!

[@Marshal098]

Some sailors throw a lot overboard. Legally. And illegally.

[@jimboinsa]

Far too much handling of the trash. Should go into some type of compactor and be done.

[@joshr8666]

You understand that the whole point of it all is so that they can manage the waste as best as they can right meaning that some of it could be recycled some of it could be burned some of it could be dumped in the ocean some of it might need to be held on to to dispose properly once they get back to land. So this is the best way as of now that they can deal with all of that. If you compare it to what we have on land what you're suggesting is what we do now and that's why our landfills are all filling up. It's not a sustainable practice.

[@joshuasprinkles3490]

I’m 5:00 in and have yet to hear of a single “genius way” the navy disposes of waste.

[@danstermeister]

While interesting, I don't think this is exactly what the Navy had in mind for things like recruiting LOL.

[@fatjoe66666666]

Crappy mos to have imo or is it like kp?

[@markwoten6679]

I hated it because as an engineer we were responsible for all that crap. 💩.

[@65es]

Reclamation is usually by the galley and this shit smells like toxic waste and still goes overboard

[@fiendwithout]

Here’s an idea. How about not having a majority of that pre packaged food. It’s disgusting anyways.

[@pneumamedia4090]

Propaganda we all know it goes overboard

[@wernerhiemer406]

Genius solution? They doing the same on every class of ship, just other clothing/uniforms. And what is genius about bending/hunching to reach down. Preventing enviromental impact by waste managment is so minuscle to the impact made by the actual mode of operation by main engine of the vessel, the aircrafts, and the take off units. They aren't fighting with sticks and arrows, but chemical, and radioactive material for the impact. Aka wishi washi.