Abstract
Hazardous Materials that may exist onboard ships (as part of their fixed structure or machinery), are listed within the Hong Kong Convention for the safe and environmentally sound recycling of ships 2009 and associated circulars, also within the Annexes of Regulation (EU) 1257/2013 of the European Parliament-Council on ship recycling. Also listed are threshold values i.e., the concentration in homogeneous materials that make a material hazardous. The regulations require that (a) such materials are identified and inventoried (b) kept track of during the lifetime of the ship, (c) asbestos found onboard ships built after 2002 be removed within a stipulated period and (d) when a ship is recycled, the recycling process is done in a safe and environmentally considerate manner, all hazardous materials are taken off systematically and disposed so as to not endanger living organisms or cause environmental pollution. In this paper we will discuss the above processes.
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