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During the eight hours that this ship sits in our harbour it will produce the equivalent exhaust of 12,240 running automobiles. Black water (shit and piss): 40,000 gallons a day. Grey Water (showers and sinks): 360,000 gallons a day. Solid waste (food and garbage): 14,000 kilograms a day. Hazardous Waste (photo chemicals, dry-cleaning, paint, solvents): 15 gallons a day. Oily bilge: 7,000 gallons a day.

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(from the same article as linked to above)

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This is the cruise pavilion of Cozumel, Mexico, the equivalent to Pier 21 in Halifax. Up to 16 cruise ships have been known to stop here in a single day—that's 40,000 passengers, few of whom will actually stray outside of this Mexico shopping theme park. Why bother? They only have a few hours, and this convenient facility satisfies all their tourist urges. They can buy the Mexico T-shirt, snap a photo of the Mayan ruin and eat a mild beef burrito that is guaranteed to be free of parasites and other intestinal shit disturbers. A flotilla of glass bottom and snorkel excursion boats are busy taxiing the more adventurous cruisers to and from the reef. The traffic out there is horrendous, all those little boats circling over the coral reef like sharks in a feeding frenzy, competing for the best fish. Little do all the cruisers know this complex of Mexico-style fun is entirely owned and operated by the Carnival Corporation—the PepsiCo of the cruise industry. All the Mexicans around here are actors, hired to play the part, paid substandard wages.

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