| US’ “toilet bowl”

AMERICAN cruise ships are using Canada as a “toilet bowl” for polluted waste, according to a report by the environmental organisations Stand.earth and West Coast Environmental Law.

Lax Canadian regulations have created a “perverse incentive” for American cruise ships en route to Alaska to discharge their waste water off British Columbia, the report said.

While Washington is classified as a no-discharge zone, and Alaska requires ships to receive permission to dump, untreated sewage from cruise ships can legally be dumped in Canadian waters.