Garbage Disposers
Garbage Compactors
Garbage Compactors is a group of 2 IMPA-coded items (codes 175584–175585) under Garbage Disposers in the Tableware & Galley Utensils section (IMPA 17). All of them are priced per set.
Buying guide
A garbage compactor presses the ship’s refuse into compact blocks or bales for storage until it can be landed. The catalogue units are mobile, hydraulically driven, with stainless-steel inner and outer linings; they cube general waste, bale paper, cardboard, bags and light mixed waste, and box organic waste. They are listed for 110 V or 220 V AC.[1]
Under the MARPOL Annex V guidelines, compactors reduce the space needed to store garbage and make it easier to discharge at port reception facilities; where storage space is limited, operators are encouraged to fit one. Ships trading mainly in special areas, Arctic waters or within 3 nm of land can discharge very little, and have to choose between storing compacted or uncompacted garbage and incineration.[2]
How to specify it
Give the supply voltage, the model, the capacity (volume of refuse) and the machine dimensions if space is tight — the catalogue asks for all three. Measure the door and passage the unit has to pass through to reach its compartment.[1]
Say what it will compact. The guidelines note that most garbage compacts, but not unground plastics, fibre and paperboard, bulky cargo containers or thick metal; options include sanitising, deodorising, adjustable compaction ratio, bagging, boxing and baling.[2]
Rules and certificates
MEPC.295(71), the 2017 Guidelines for the implementation of MARPOL Annex V: pressurised containers should not be compacted without equipment designed for them, because they present an explosion hazard in standard compactors. A compactor should be installed in a compartment with room to operate and maintain it and to store garbage, preferably next to food preparation and store rooms, with fresh-water wash-down, coamings, deck drains, ventilation and fire-fighting equipment. Paper and cardboard bales should be kept dry.[2]
Compaction is one step in the ship’s garbage management, and the guidelines expect the whole scheme to be described in the Garbage Management Plan. COSWP adds that compactors should always be operated by competent people following the operating instructions.[2][3]
Questions buyers ask
- Can aerosol cans go in the compactor?
- Not in a standard one. The MARPOL Annex V guidelines warn that pressurised containers present an explosion hazard in standard compactors and should only be compacted with equipment designed for them.
- Does compacted garbage have to be landed ashore?
- The guidelines treat compaction as a way to reduce storage volume and make discharge to a port reception facility easier. Compactor output may be subject to quarantine, sanitary or other port requirements, so ask the agent or the reception facility.
Sources
Published by Sherif Awad, founder of GeoMarineHub — in ship supply since 1990, a family business since 1981 (45 years). Last checked .
At a glance
Part of Tableware & Galley Utensils (IMPA section 17): Plates, cups, cutlery, cookware, knives, ovenware and the tools of a working galley.
It is one of 5 groups under Garbage Disposers; the others include Accessories for Garbage Compressor, Crushers Bottle, Crushers Can, Refuse Disposers.
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- Items
- 2
- IMPA codes
- 175584–175585
- Priced
- per set
Items
| IMPA | Item | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| 175584 | GARBAGE COMPACTOR AC 110V | SET |
| 175585 | GARBAGE COMPACTOR AC 220V | SET |
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