It only becomes illegal if goes into anything--even a bucket--first.
Sooo... Can I make a seat on the bow, like the old days and shit directly into the sea ?
Discharge of sewage overboard is just dumb.
The whole lower end of Vancouver Island dump their sewage, into the sea, untreated, and yet they get pissy about boats. Pumpouts that you pay for, end up in the same place. hehe.
What is dumb, is regulations that have little impact, vs the HUGE amount of untreated sewage from over capacity treatment plants, municipal untreated water, not to mention run off from agriculture.
It's the easy pickings they go after. It makes people feel that they (each individual) are actually doing something.
The real environmental solution is birth control.
If we cut our complete environmental impact in half... in 8 years, after the world population doubled, we'd be almost back to where we are.
But that's another discussion.