CRUISE WASTE • DIGESTER SIZING • LANDED-WASTE COST • ENERGY • LABOR • NPV • IRR

Cruise Ship Food Waste Cost & Digester ROI Calculator

Estimate cruise food-waste generation, digester capacity, landed-waste reduction, utility and labor effects, annual operating value and lifecycle ROI. Advanced mode separates passenger, crew and galley waste, port-disposal routing, power source, cold-storage relief and full retrofit CAPEX.

Figures represent
↑Need labor, utilities, shore-power split or full retrofit detail? Click Advanced above.Simple is a fast disposal-led screen. It sizes the digester using disclosed availability and reserve assumptions and does not invent labor or energy savings.
WasteDaily + annual tonnes
SizingRequired kg/day
ReturnPayback, NPV & IRR

Food Waste Generation

Use average people onboard over the operating period being screened.

Average carried passengers.
Average crew complement onboard.
kg/person-day across passengers + crew.
Days represented by the annual case.

Digester & Disposal Case

Share of generated food waste routed to the system.
Mass reduction of material actually processed.
Enter routing required by your garbage-management plan and itinerary.
USD per tonne landed.

Project Investment

Equipment + integration + installation.
Annual maintenance/service burden.
↑Advanced separates waste streams, throughput, routing, utilities and installed project economics.The user enters landed-disposal shares. The calculator does not determine MARPOL discharge eligibility.

Food Waste Generation Profile

Separate passenger, crew and galley/preparation waste.

kg/passenger-day
kg/crew-day
kg/day

Digester Capacity & Processing

kg/day while available.
% of operating days/hours available.
Used in required rated-capacity screen.

Waste Routing & Port Cost

Enter the share that your voyage plan requires to be landed. This tool does not determine whether a stream may be discharged.

USD/tonne landed.
USD/tonne of landed waste avoided.

Labor & Storage

hours/day
USD/hour
kW

Digester Utilities & Consumables

kW
L/tonne processed
USD/m³
USD/tonne processed

Power Source, Fuel & Carbon

Remaining share is valued as shore electricity.
g/kWh
USD/MT
tCO₂/MT
USD/kWh
kgCO₂/kWh
USD/tCO₂

Retrofit CAPEX

%
days

Lifecycle Assumptions

Optional; avoid double-counting entered benefits.
%
%/year
%/year
%/year
%/year

Project Readiness Checks

Screening checks only. They do not alter the financial calculation.

Stress Cases

Multipliers recalculate project economics. Add custom cases as needed.

CaseWaste volumeDisposal feeCAPEXOPEX
Investment screenCalculating...Live results
Year 1 net operating benefitN/A

Landed waste avoidedN/A
Required capacityN/A
Project NPVN/A
PaybackN/A
Waste Mass BalanceGenerated, processed, landed and avoided food-waste tonnes
Digester Capacity & ThroughputRequired rated capacity includes availability and design reserve
Year-1 Savings BreakdownDisposal, labor, energy and carbon value against utilities and OPEX
Discounted Cumulative Project ValueLifecycle cash flow including escalation and major overhaul
Waste Volume × Disposal Fee SensitivityProject NPV under combined operating-volume and disposal-price changes
Lifecycle Cash FlowAnnual project economics
YearDisposalLaborEnergyWater + consumablesFixed OPEXOverhaulNet cashCumulative PV
Model Boundaries & MARPOL Routing NoteUse as a planning screen, not a discharge-permission determination
Mass balance: generated food waste is routed to the digester up to available annual capacity. Processed mass is reduced by the entered treatment percentage; unprocessed food waste and residue then follow the entered landed-disposal shares.

Regulatory boundary: the tool does not determine discharge eligibility. MARPOL Annex V generally prohibits garbage discharge except specified categories/conditions. Food-waste rules depend on whether waste is comminuted/ground, distance from land, special-area/Arctic-water status and other conditions. Enter the landed share that applies to the vessel's actual garbage-management plan and itinerary.

Economics: Advanced compares digester electrical demand with avoided cold-storage load, values onboard electricity using generator SFOC/fuel price and shore electricity using the entered tariff, then adds disposal, labor, optional carbon value and lifecycle costs.
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