Managing Black Waste.

By David Tanner

Below is an extract of the article "Black Waste-The War Between Good & Evil " published in the April 2023 issue of AHOY Sailing News. www.issuu.com/downunderrally

If you imagine your black tank as a fish tank in your lounge room, then you are on the right path to understanding the right and wrong ways to look after waste on your boat and do your bit for the environment.

The cardinal rule is that if you put anything in your black tank, then you need to ask, if I put that same thing in the fish tank, would the fish live or die?

If the answer is that the fish are dead, then you have no cause to complain about the smell.

Unfortunately, we are encouraged to do things and put things into black tanks that and not always in the best interests of good tank ecology...

Continue reading this article in the April 2023 issue of AHOY Sailing here: www.issuu.com/downunderrally