Antarctic Environmental Protection Regulations

Marginal note:Sewage and domestic liquid wastes

41 Despite paragraph 37(k), the waste management plan may allow the permit holder to dispose of sewage or domestic liquid wastes, other than sewage or domestic liquid wastes from a vessel, directly into the sea if

• (a) they are disposed of at a place where conditions exist for initial dilution and rapid dispersal of the sewage or wastes; and

• (b) in the case of sewage or wastes that are produced at a station with an average weekly occupancy over the austral summer of at least 30 individuals, they are macerated before disposal.