Entries in the Garbage Record Book:

MARPOL Annex V: Garbage

Description of the garbage:

Garbage is to be grouped into categories for the purposes of the Garbage Record Book (or ship’s official log-book) as follows:

• A: Plastics
• B: Food wastes
• C: Domestic Wastes
• D: Cooking Oil
• E: Incinerator ashes
• F: Operational wastes
• G: Cargo residues
• H: Animal Carcass(es)
• I: Fishing Gear

Entries in the Garbage Record Book shall be made on each of the following occasions:

1. When garbage is discharged to a reception facility ashore or to other ships
2. When garbage is incinerated
3. When garbage is discharged into the sea in accordance with garbage dischage regulations (4, 5 or 6 of MARPOL Annex V)
4. Accidental or other exceptional discharges or loss of garbage into the sea