🔍 Key Concepts

• MARPOL Annex V – Garbage from Ships general requirements for oceangoing vessels • Purpose of a waste management plan versus normal garbage operations • Difference between how you handle/organize waste on board and the act of overboard discharge

💭 Think About

• Ask yourself: Is this plan mainly about what happens on board or what happens when garbage is actually discharged over the side? • Which option focuses on the overall handling process of garbage (from creation to final disposal) rather than a single system like sewage or a single step like discharge? • Which choice best matches the idea of “management” (planning, organizing, handling) of garbage in day‑to‑day ship operations?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify which option deals specifically with garbage (solid waste) and not sewage from marine sanitation devices. • Check which choice describes procedures that a crew would realistically need written down to comply with MARPOL Annex V (think: collection, handling, processing, and final disposition). • Eliminate any answer that focuses only on one narrow type of waste or only on the overboard discharge step, instead of the broader management process.