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Michelle, a guest with experience from a year-long offshore sailing journey, describes a system for managing galley waste during passages of one to three weeks.0:20 Before leaving the dock, she strips all unnecessary packaging — cereal boxes, cookie boxes, excess cardboard — and transfers food into tins or airtight containers, eliminating bulky waste before it boards.2:16 To cut plastic bottle volume, she replaced multiple small water bottles with single 8- or 10-liter jugs, then repurposed the empty jugs as trash compactors, stuffing compressed waste inside; two such jugs plus one bag of cans held three weeks of trash for two people and two dogs.3:52 Biodegradable food scraps — eggshells, banana peels, orange peels — can go overboard legally; nothing else should.4:27 For toilet paper disposal, she adapted a Diaper Genie, sealing used paper inside the twist mechanism to contain odor; one unit lasted a full three-week crossing with no smell.6:26 The boat carried a 200-liter freshwater tank, which proved insufficient for a three-week passage without a watermaker.2:49 The core lesson: pre-departure packaging removal and creative onboard compaction reduce both trash volume and odor to a fraction of what most sailors expect.

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