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I've always wondered if they still have the old garbage grinder.
As for tossing valves over the side..... there certainly is a long trail of brass and bronze along a certain tract of the Atlantic that I know of.

Our ship had a space that was to be for a garbage grinder, but it was never installed. So the space was converted for vending machine stowage.

After our short yard period in early 90 we had a dump trash day. I saw 5 TV’s go over board. Not to mention all of the extra junk left in the engineering spaces by the yard birds. Unless you were in Thailand brass valves went over board. In Thailand they were traded for everything and anything.

We did have a grinder for CHT. After that it was burnt. This was while we were too close to shore, otherwise, we left a trail of brown trout.